Are American Farmers Incompetent?
Aug. 11th, 2007 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevenehrbarI mean, it sure seems like they must be. Australian and New Zealand farmers seem to get by just fine without either subsidies or cheap illegal immigrant labor, after all. Yet proposals to reduce American subsidies or improve American immigration enforcement always get met
with the declaration that it will put American farmers out of business.
Fortunately, I have a solution! Let's take just two years of farm subsidies, and earmark them instead for subsidizing loans by which Australian and New Zealand farmers can purchase U.S. farms and a special Farmer's Education Bill. The Australian and New Zealand farmers would benefit because they'd wind up with more farms; the U.S. budget would benefit from the elimination of subsidies; and America's incompetent farmers would benefit from the opportunity to go to school and learn a trade they'd actually be good at. Win-win-win!
with the declaration that it will put American farmers out of business.
Fortunately, I have a solution! Let's take just two years of farm subsidies, and earmark them instead for subsidizing loans by which Australian and New Zealand farmers can purchase U.S. farms and a special Farmer's Education Bill. The Australian and New Zealand farmers would benefit because they'd wind up with more farms; the U.S. budget would benefit from the elimination of subsidies; and America's incompetent farmers would benefit from the opportunity to go to school and learn a trade they'd actually be good at. Win-win-win!
