Wrong priorities in House Farm Bill Stalemate

A few days ago, the U.S. House failed to come up with a farm bill. As usual, Congress missed an opportunity to cut of the billion dollar handout pipeline to farms and seemed to get side-tracked over the food-stamp program.    Wrong priorities as usual.  U.S. Farmers get $5 billion per year for not growing.  Yes the soil needs to be preserved, but let the farmers who own the soil take care of it. Subsidies to farmers cost $ 20 billion per year.  Crop insurance costs $9 billion per year. What other business do you know of that gets billions from the government in insurance benefits?  Disproportionately, the benefits do not flow to the struggling family farm. Yes, there is abuse in the food-stamp program (abuse is chronic in most federal handout programs), but why penalize those who are truly needy?  Congress needs to focus on the real problem--too many in Congress buying farm state votes and too much log-rolling and back-scratching in Congress, wasting billions.  When is the American taxpayer going to stand up and say "I'm not going to take it any more."