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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Subsidy program is one of the largest federal program in existence. And with a budget of more than $21 billion in 2005, it’s also one of the most mismanaged. 
Need proof?
How about the fact that millionaire former NBA star Scottie Pippen received nearly $80,000 in taxpayer handouts during 2003-05. Or that CBS late night talk show host David Letterman has cashed in on the program. Or that numerous billionaires and Washington lobbyists have been receiving farm aid for years. And the list goes on and on.
This new information comes from the Environmental Work Group, a public interest group that aims to expose the wastefulness of the current farm subsidy program and end the status quo.
We wonder how much of South Carolina’s $116.4 million chunk of the pie would qualify as wasteful and how, exactly, it got to be that way. Don’t get us wrong, there are some hard working farmers who justifiably benefit from farm subsidies, but on the whole, the program is a disaster.
We own a family farm outside of Orangeburg and I can tell ya that the only farms that got money was the big farms like Perrow Farms and Haigler Farms up in Cameron. This money dont help real farmers it only helps huge ones.