Michigan asparagus growers get combat pay as foot soldiers in the war on drugs

Michigan asparagus growers get combat pay as foot soldiers in the war on drugs
"Michigan asparagus farmers have until April 8 to sign up for their share of the $15 million ear-marked to compensate them for the hit they took in the country's war on drugs — when Congress pulled the plug on their market by encouraging South American farmers to grow asparagus instead of drugs.

A news release from the Michigan Farm Bureau Friday said the 'vast majority' of Michigan's 150 asparagus growers should be eligible for up to $100,000 per producer, part of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture program to help make up for losses suffered after Congress, in 1991, awarded farmers in Peru, Columbia, Bolivia and Ecuador unlimited duty-free entry to U.S. markets.

That put Michigan and other US asparagus producers into competition with farmers in those countries.
Peru has a 12-month production cycle and near-ideal growing conditions."

And we all know that COMPETITION is bad.
Our country is out of control!