http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/27/pet.projects.ap/index.html
CNN reports that the US Federal government will spend $1.2Billion over the next 5 years to subsidise small operation dairy farmers. So American taxpayers (that includes me) will get to pay to support uneconomic US businesses that are unable to compete with rest of the world, while actively damaging the business prospects of efficient, well-managed farmers outside the US. The individual responsible for this attack on fair trade is Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.