But the idea of small business loans, and the stated goal of the SBA, "to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise," belies the fact that those aren't Small Businesses, they're just small branches of Big Business. Oh, and who gets the profits from those little 'largely independent' companies? When someone says the words, "Small Business" are we talking about Jim's six-person roofing operation, or are we talking about the latest tax shelter for MBNA? Free competitive enterprise indeed.

As for paying folk not to farm, it might have been a reasonable thing to do back when family farmers needed help as a result of overproduction, but now the vast majority of farm supports are going to corporate welfare so that companies can make money by selling crops for less than the cost of producing it. Your taxes and mine at work. You call that free-market? I call it welfare for people who already own private jets.