Sucking the government teat is driving some of them insane.

If you can't produce without begging for money taken from taxpayers, then don't fucking produce! It has long been the case that it doesn't make economic sense for individuals and small family or local buisnesses to farm for a living. Unless you serve a niche market or have simply outstanding quality goods, you aren't going to survive.

Thus march on the inevitable laws of human economic activity. I don't give one shit how important the farming legacy is in a town. It's as if they wish to deliberately hold themselves back from progressing past the early-to-mid 1900's. That legacy, combined with simple pity, electoral pandering, and an irrational fear of large business, is screwing the entire country. Not to mention making us look profoundly hypocritical in the eyes of every country we wag our fingers at if they have government intervention in their economy.

So screw this guy and his last-ditch effort to have his hat filled with taxpayer money. The DC police need to tranq this guy and get the city moving again.

Of course...adding more gridlock to Washington isn't necessarily a bad thing...