"Ending farm subsidies will help win the war"

Here's Don Surber's take:

But farm subsidies strain international relations. The BBC reported that the United States just had
its chops busted by the World Trade Organization for giving subsidies to cotton
farmers. Brazil had complained.
The WTO reviewed the complaint and said
Brazil would be right to retaliate against this unfair trade practice.
Has
anyone in America ever heard of free trade?

Certainly we need all the friends we can get. Murdoc posts an older article which details "two-thirds of subsidies went to the top 10% of recipients." I have seen this firsthand. When I was a kid here in rural South Carolina in the 1970's, small family owned farms were plentiful. Now the small farms are mostly gone, with their owners taking jobs in factories. These were the original small businesses which government seems so concerned, but they have mostly dried up today.

Though I agree that allowing a flood of foreign goods into the country would hardly help the small farmer, likely it eliminate what few farms we have left. Obviously though, socialized farming isn't the answer either.