Since farming subsidies are paid with tax dollars that means that, we, the middle class are paying for farmers not to grow food so that they can keep production down and prices up. After our tax dollars are taken and given to farmers as an incentive to keep production down and prices up, we then have to buy the food from those same farmers at inflated prices at the grocery store.

We are, in effect, paying twice for our food. Food is not a luxury item, it is life itself. How can any moral man or women justify that kind of selfishness?

The more the middle class slides into poverty the less they have to spend on food while at the same time the prices just keep going up and up and up.

Today I bought two apples at Wal Mart. The total was $2.08. That’s $1.04 per apple. I cried all the way home. My house is in foreclosure, we are filing bankruptcy. We cannot afford the cost of food. Not because we were bad stuards of of finacial world, but because the ecconomy cost my husband his job. He had to take another job making so much less money that we could no longer afford to live as we did. We have no problem living with less. We are simple people who are happy with whatever we have, feast or famine, we try to be good to each other and make the best of our world.

But when the famine is felt by our family now, it is because of the greed of the few who take from the many.

Linda Feher