Farm Subsidies
In an article we read recently, a federal study reported in the California Farmer magazine stated that in 1930 1 of every 4 Americans lived on a farm. That figure dropped to 1 out of 7 in 1950.
Today, the ratio has dropped to 1 out of 45 for a total farm population of 5.3 million.
What we cannot understand is how we can give a farm subsidy of almost $25 billion to a population of 5.3 million farmers and justify it.
Something is terribly wrong when a prince in Liechtenstein gets a farm subsidy of more than $1 million for a farm he owns in Texas and many agribusinesses get subsidies of millions of dollars each. This does not help the family farmer at all.
It seems to us that this program needs serious correction.
HAROLD A. GORDON
JEANNE GORDON
Laguna Hills
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