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Please tell me this is an April Fools article. Please.

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Its been going on for seven decades, must be a very elaborate and highly organized April Fools joke.

http://www.raisins.org

Helpful!

I know this is a serious issue re the problems with inflated and systemic agricultural bureaucracy per the thoughtful comments below...but: raisins.org.

Amazeballs as government URLs go.

Unfortunately it is not. New Deal era laws such as this one existed to help prevent a flood of excess food ruin the market for farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. Unfortunately, nobody is keen to revisit any laws from the New Deal, no matter how outdated, because of the kind of scrutiny it might bring on programs like Social Security.

Even at the time the laws were harmful and unconstitutional. Many people were barely able to afford food or even going hungry, and meanwhile the government was doing everything it could to raise the prices further and reduce production.

Yes, the Great Depression, when our foremost leaders reasoned that we could become more prosperous as a nation by destroying crops and making food more expensive to a population facing an unemployment rate of 20% (and devoting a far greater portion of their budget to food than you or I do).

FDR came up with the most toxic economic policy ever experienced in this nation, bar none, and easily added seven years onto the Great Depression. And no, it's wasn't the fault of Social Security: it was the fault of nonsense like this.

They say in high school history classes World War II led the US out of the Great Depression. It's only true because that's what finally convinced the idiots in charge that they needed to get their act together if they actually wanted to muster enough industrial output to fight a war.

If there is a God, Mr. Roosevelt, may he have mercy on your soul.

Not all is fault of the Great Depression legislation, take for example one that came to the forefront during the "Fiscal Cliff" negotiations. Read about the 1949 Agricultural Act on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_1949

Remember that seven or eight dollar a gallon milk scare? That is the source of that mess. Follow the links at the bottom of the article for all sorts of farm bills.

Its pretty damn scary how much the government meddles in the industry because we have 400 plus experts.

What's good about that Act?

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