Farm Subsidies consist of money paid to farmers and farming organizations. Supposedly, the money paid is for supplementing their income when prices are driven too low affecting the income of the farmers. Farm subsidies manage commodity supplies and influence the cost and supply of those commodities.
Farm Subsidies - Got Milk
Our government taxes you and me
And pays the farmers not to grow
And puts price controls on sugar and milk
Under which they may not go
And buys the excess butter and cheese
To keep the price up
And says it’s because the dairy farms
Are a national asset
Four billion dollars in
cheese and such
Stored in caves in Missouri in nineteen eighty four
Aging and getting rancid
We must get it out the door
And they invented school lunch programs
Because children are sacred you know
We can say it’s to build strong bones
And heads and feet
And that’s mighty neat
We can dump tons of the stuff
And our lunches are better than moms
Because we are experts
Which no one can refute
Furthermore, we can pass more laws
Next, they fed the school children pizzas
And macaroni and cheese
Patted them on the back and told them
How strong your bones will be
The department of Agriculture created
The
Dairy Farmers Corporation
And the clever mustache of milk
And the, “Got Milk” campaign
Drink it brother, drink it down
And this was a great success
Additionally, the consumers consumed
Also, the government paid
The farmers produced more
And the politicians said
Ah ha, what good things we do
We will take from the rich
And give to the poor
Vote for us
And we’ll give you more
And they raised the poverty level
To forty-and-four thousand dollars
And that got more people
Into the poverty programs
And they said
Oh you poor souls
Now we’ll give you free food
