An analysis of government records by The Washington Post revealed in July that a federal agriculture subsidy program to compensate farmers for market-losing crops has evolved, through regulatory interpretation and lax enforcement, into a program that since 2000 has paid $1.3 billion to people who don't even farm at all. (Although pre-tax income of all farming was a near-record $72 billion in 2005, federal subsidies actually grew to $25 billion, a sum considerably more than that paid to families receiving welfare.) [Washington Post, 7-2-06]

Farm subsidies "considerably more than that paid to families receiving welfare."

Those jets ADM loans politicians really, really pay off, don't they. Make a "welfare Cadillac" look kinda cheap.

Arf