Screw you poor people:

“Some things just shouldn’t be cheapened. The market is very good at establishing the value of many things but it is not a good substitute for human values. Societies need to determine their own human values, not let the market do it for them. There are some essential things, such as our land and the life-sustaining foods it can produce, that should not be cheapened.”

The source article is fucking retarded. There’s literally no other way to describe it or else I would have tried. CATO says:

This sort of stuff could only be written by someone on full academic tenure and who has never had to worry about feeding his family.

It would take many hours to rebut all of the idiocies contained in the full article, but for now I will just say: Yes, it is true that U.S. government subsidies for corn, for example, cause environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico (Cato scholars have in fact covered this before as part of our ongoing campaign to eliminate farm subsidies). And yes, poor farmers abroad have suffered because of government intervention in food markets. But those are problems stemming from government intervention, not the free market.

I’m asking…no…begging you to read the whole PDF and find a single rational thought. These people literally sit in an office year-round and get paid to think up the stupidest shit imaginable. Cheap food is bad.

Say that again real slow: Cheap…food…is…bad.

Of course, you know where idiotic thinking like this leads…free food for everyone and 100% subsidies for producers.

If you have another word but “slavery” for that kind of situaion, I’m all ears.

Russ