Honestly though (for eb),
Conditions on our aircraft carriers have been bad since we started making them. It's no wonder; they're not built for comfort, which goes on regardless of who's POTUS.
But FFS, we should be able to feed our military.
People, especially young men, can sustain horrid conditions when fed well, rested occasionally, and treated with respect. The German U-boat crews are an example. There are many others.
But not on one of our greatest flagships used to project global power, which has basically allowed Iran to put under a sort of siege.
From a military with a trillion dollar per year budget.
Americans should be mad about this, and many are. Myself included.
Was that honest enough for ya eb?
I don't mind if we subsidize farmers, particularly if they are producing something we eat.
Food security is matter of national security, for many reasons.
What gets me is how these fuggin farmers take in more money from subsidies than every single mother on WIC in the country (true story) and act like some kind of champions of capitalism when they're all a bunch of socialist welfare queens.
Plus all the pollution from over-fertilization, letting their cows stomp all over riparian areas and -------- in the streams, etc. But that's for a different thread.