Why is the US Govt. spending $147 Million Dollars for Brazil cotton farmers?

If that sounds implausible or insane, well, welcome to U.S. agricultural policy, where the implausible and the insane are the routine. Our perplexing $147.3 million–a-year handout to Brazilian agribusiness, part of a last-minute deal to head off an arcane trade dispute, barely even qualified as news; on Tuesday, April 6, it was buried in the 11th paragraph of this Reuters story.

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ron2010-11-09T19:59:15Z

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International pressure which we don't care or continue support for our Cotton industries because we couldn't stop to help them.

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