Corporate farmers lining up for more handouts from the middle class

In 2002, the GOP shoveled out billions of dollars of handouts in the Farm Bill with the bulk of the money going to large corporate farmers who are certainly much wealthier than the average American. Corporate welfare if a familiar theme for the GOP who never mind slashing money for the poor and asking them to step up and work, but the same brutal capitalism is noticeably missing when it comes to handouts for big corporates.

As taxpayers continue to foot the bill for Iraq, costs that will be weighing on the middle class for years to come, now the special interests from corporate farms want those same people to take on even more costs that will again profit already very rich people. I wonder if this new breed of American business will ever get out and do work on their own or if they intend to live off of taxpayer handouts forever. They're always the first to attack any welfare for individuals but would like taxpayers to think their business is somehow critical and needs to be funded.

Farming is obviously important but if these corporate farmers can't figure out how to survive in business, maybe they're in the wrong business and should change fields. They won't though, because they know there will always be plenty of handouts from those in Congress who are afraid of modernizing the system and introducing the idea of fairness.

Besides being unfair to the bulk of Americans who are forced to subsidize Big Farm, it's also unfair to farmers in other parts of the world who don't enjoy such luxuries and are unable to compete in the US market. It also highlights the hypocrisy of GOP claims of "free market" business because the only time they ever want a "free market" is when they have a tilted balance like this and don't have to worry about competition. Competition is always for someone else.