Cotton-Pickin' Varmits

I'll be honest with you: I have no idea why I'm bloggingthis article about US cotton subsidies. Maybe it's a cry for an explanation from someone who knows more about it than me. Maybe its because the WTO gets indiscriminately shit on by hippies that hate anything corporate and now the WTO seems to be doing something to make trade equitable for depressed countries, which is their whole point of existing in the first place. Or maybe I just wanted to make the observation that after nearly a century-and-a-half, the powers-that-be in the United States are still making life awful for foreigners (Africans and, in this case, Brazilians) that pick cotton. Nevertheless, as much as I believe some sort of subsidies are necessary to keep American farmers out of abject poverty, doesn't the US need to do something to keep the rest of the world from hating us more? See, I'm far too uninformed to comment on this. So read this. I know governing is hard, but lack of common decency seems to make it harder.