The Crop Racket

When I read something like this it gets me thinking: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100201/BUSINESS01/100201007/-1/GETPUBLISHED03wp-content/Obama-proposes-cutting-farm-subsidies

Our government lays out billions upon billions a year to pay farmers (many who are big corporate operations), to grow food we don't need. This excess is partly the reason why we've grown so obese as a nation. These excess crops eventually have to go somewhere, and that place is our legs, hips, thighs and guts.

Now, not to get all political again, what I don't understand is this--how come we can spend billions of dollars giving big corporations money to grow food we don't need and is making us unhealthy and fat, while we can't provide decent health care for everyone? Or, for those on the right side of the political spectrum--why are we spending these billions of dollars to give big corporations money to grow food we don't need and is making us unhealthy and fat, while we could be cutting taxes?

The bottom line is this, unless crop subsidies are specifically targeted to only help small family farms, we should not have our government supporting large corporations in behaviors which ultimately make us unhealthy as a nation.