Ag Subsidies

It appears that the U.S. is going to cave on agricultural subsides to get <a href="http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1073280940217&p=1012571727085">World Trade Organisation talks going again.</a> I personally have never understood all the farm programs out there, nor do I want to, so I don't know how big of concession this really is. The way I understand it the U.S. doesn't provide that much in the way of direct export subsidies like most countries. We just give direct payments to the farmers. So is the administration giving up the farmers or is this just a paper tiger?<br />n<br />n<b>We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)</b