Local milk producers found out Thursday that they'll be getting checks from the federal government for losses incurred during a major dairy downturn this year. The money will come from a $290 million pot approved by Congress earlier this year....
Having grown up in the Central Valley, I can pretty much gaurantee you that a large percentage of farmers getting this money hold anti-government, Tea Party-type views. They will scream all day about Obama and socialism, but they never make the connection that direct payments from the government is just about the purest form of socialism.
I should be clear that I absolutely support this sort of socialism. I just wonder how the farmers taking the money square their idealistic Rand-ian vision with reality.
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