USDA: Harvesting Cash from YOUR Pockets

Washington Post Special Report

Harvesting Cash / How to Spend an Extra $15 Billion

In the past five years alone, the U.S. government has handed out more than $95 billion in agricultural subsidies. Post reporters criss-crossed the country in 2006, identifying more than $15 billion in wasteful, unnecessary and redundant spending.

Washington Post reporters Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen spent more than a year examining federal agriculture subsidies, generating more than a dozen stories and several interactive maps in 2006.

Click on title above to see full report;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/interactives/farmaid/

See also;

USDA Misappropriates Millions
http://exposingfdanusda.blogspot.com/2009/03/usda-misappropriates-49million-dollars.html

Farm Subsidies Reform Fails;
http://exposingfdanusda.blogspot.com/2009/04/farm-subsidy-reform-fails.html