FilmFestGuy
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Farmers get big ass subsidies, too.
The Swiss have a very strong military. In fact, every male citizen in Swizterland is a member of the armed forces. Wanna pick another country?
And the farm subsidies have led to $.90 cheeseburgers; fattening sodas; unnaturally-fed cows, pigs, and chickens spreading hormones to our children that they shouldn't be consuming; and to Monsanto controlling 90% of all the soybeans and 80% of all the corn in the nation.
And Switzerland doesn't have a military in the same way that we do. Only about 5% are professional soliders. Every male under 50 (in certain cases) is considered an active-duty soldier under conscript laws; but since they don't fight any wars, they basically never actually on duty in the same way an enlisted man/woman here would be.