An excellent WSJ op-ed: A Subsidy as Shameful as They
Come
“The real culprit
here are federal peanut programs with an almost 80-year record as one of
Washington’s most flagrant boondoggles. Subsidies have encouraged farmers to
overproduce and then dump surplus peanuts on the USDA, which winds up stuck
with hundreds of millions of pounds.
That food has to go somewhere, and the department sees Haiti as the ticket. Food-aid policies have long been driven not by altruism, but by bureaucratic desperation to dispose of the evidence of failed farm policies.”
That food has to go somewhere, and the department sees Haiti as the ticket. Food-aid policies have long been driven not by altruism, but by bureaucratic desperation to dispose of the evidence of failed farm policies.”