Downsize the Department of Agriculture
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2014
- www.downsizinggovernment.org/a...
The Department of Agriculture provides an array of subsidies for farmers and imposes extensive regulations on agricultural markets. It operates the food stamp and school lunch programs, and it administers numerous subsidy programs for rural parts of the nation. The Forest Service is also within the Department of Agriculture.
The department spent around $150 billion in 2013, or almost $1,300 for every U.S. household. It operates about 240 subsidy programs and employs 93,000 workers in about 7,000 offices across the country.
Hold up. Yes, the Department of Agriculture is responsible for a number of excesses in the federal budget. Yes, the Federal Government has an excess of almost $16 trillion in debt (last I checked), and it continues to increase by $1.5 trillion every year. But is that the music from Squad's groundbreaking game Kerbal Space Program playing in the background?
Shit, I'm convinced.
I don't really agree with most of the subsidies, but there is some important info CATO didn't consider here. The average farm and ranch household has to pay for things that the average suburban or inner city household doesn't. For instance, they may have to buy water by the cubic foot to irrigate crops. They have a lot of expensive machinery like combine harvesters, bailers, swathers, and the plain old tractor that need to be bought and maintained. If they raise livestock, they have to have expensive vet medicines on hand, and/or pay high vet bills. These are just a few of the extra expenses farmers and ranchers incur, and is of course on top of all the regular expenses like house, car, clothing, food, etc. $87,000 doesn't seem like so much in the face of all that. The family farm is dying. Farming and ranching is becoming too expensive for a family business. That's why the big corporations are taking over.
Its a short video so it must be implied that the $87k is Income After Expenses (all those things you listed)... The real question is $87k a reasonable profit in relation to the investment (risk). It may or may not to be.... The problem is that the State interference distorts all these capital allocations.
Most foods in the grocery store are not subsidized at all, if a farmer can't make a profit without government assistance, then he shouldn't be a farmer.
The DOA is why big corporations are taking over
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I'm waiting for the rockets to launch. When do we get science from the Mun?
Excellent! Now please do videos like this for the Army Corp of Engineers and the International Commerce Bank.. then one on foreign aid :)
I say spread the subsidies out equally amongst all food crops. It would be nice to see squash and asparagus get some extra money to produce for consumers. People will probably end up buying and eating this healthy food much more, people will comprehend better as a result, and thus spending will more humanely go down and thus will be a larger consensus to cut, instead of just cutting when people are still struggling.
Hmmm. Can it really be that easy? Put 100,000 govt employees out of work, then destabilize our food prices for how long? I assume if one had to eliminate or gut this dept, it would be phased out in stages. The question is who has the fortitude to force this change.
I agree about downsizing but people that are in need of food should be able to get food stamp programs. Its sad that they are abused and I've seen abusers before but it helps a lot of people that otherwise don't have much.
listen to this alinski-ite trotskyite statist pig. if youre so inept that you cannot provide enough worth to the economy to even afford food, well, then tough breaks kid. maybe a church can give you some soup or something if you're lucky. it's NOT my problem. welfare queens are going to just keep getting rich and richer off of uncle sam and will again tank the economy, just like they did in 2008. obama = food stamp prez
My family needs food also, but thank you for taking from our table to put on yours, you earned it with your vote.
apburner1 why are your family hungry? too lazy smoking crack and listening to hip hop? GET A JOB and contribute to society you deadbeats.
poop121 You're fucking dense aren't you?
apburner1 ANSWER THE QUESTION DEADBEAT
I thought they turned that over to Monsanto!
why downsize and not eliminate?
And may I ask why the government continues to provide agricultural subsidies to farmers? If left to the free market, farmers' incomes would be significantly lower compared to other Americans. By then, not many people would become farmers.
now you have to do something about space programs since you took music from KSP.
One answer: Term limits. For the Senate, one and done. For Congress, you get paid for 3, the 4th one's free. Let's see how that lights their fuse.
There is no point in downsizing governmental departments. They will downsize themselves when their top-heaviness is ripe for a big fall. When? Probably not later than three years from now.
Been three years, hows that going?
Cayden Monteiro looks like Bud was prescient. There's no one home at Dept of Ag according to an article by Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair. Trump sent some climate deniers to look around and see if they could get rid of "Obama people ". Sec Sonny Perdue was the last cabinet member appointed in April. The other 14 jobs that require confirmation have no one in place.
downsize food safety inspectors!! we should trust food processors to perform their own food safety tests. if people start dying from contaminated food, other people will just stop buying from that company. its simple, elementary, really.
Because poisoning your customers is a really great business model, says poop121.
If people die from contaminated food, then the company will be sued and prosecuted out of business
delegate foodstamps t local governments? is this a joke? I would expect Cato video to say - eliminate them! Federal communism is evil and local is not also evil.