Bait and Switch: Farm Subsidies for Big-Ag in Disguise

In the wake of major proposed recent farm budget cuts as part of the Obama administration’s new deficit reduction program (“Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future”) that will pull more than $33 billion in agriculture subsidies from the nations’ farmers, lawmakers and farm lobbyists are attempting to route that same money under a new name right back to the nation’s big-ag farmers rather than small-scale or family owned farms.