Rural Mail Subsidies

Reduce Rural Free Delivery of mail frequency: The cost for six day a week delivery in rural areas far exceeds the postage income, like the Junk mail. In fact the delivery of Junk Mail in rural areas doubles the subsidy. Two days a week should be adequate and I am sure the conservative do not want the government subsidy. If an important farm subsidy check is due on an non-mail delivery day then they can drive to some regional city post office to pick it up and stop by Walmart at the same time.

Government Staff Support To Counties

Get rid of County Extension agents and their offices: These are offices and staff that provide extension services to farmers. They represent a sizable chunk of economic subsidies to the economies of rural counties all over the country. They exist in urban counties and help with gardening, but most people never use them, even in rural counties. A sizeable percentage has never heard of them.

Farm Subsidies

Many Red States that are now being touted in Newsweek (“Red State Revival” 15 Nov 2010) received billions in farm before, during and after the recession to this day.

Farm subsidy data base. Breaks down subsidies by state, district, and county.
http://farm.ewg.org/
http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=00000
http://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=20000&progcode=total&page=states

Good breakdown of what sorts of agricultural products are subsidized along with who benefits. Also looks at some of the knock on effects of the subsidies. Well cited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_States

Article at Huffington Post about the subsidy hypocrisy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/14/farm-subsidies-politicians-who-get-them-_n_783322.html

PBS state by state numbers on farm subsidies
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/310/farm-subsidies.html