{"id":1024,"date":"2005-02-09T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2005-02-09T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:54:04","slug":"farm_subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Farm Subsidies: Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four recipients of federal farm subsidies who likely don&#8217;t need the handout:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>David Rockefeller<\/b>, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan and grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who received 99 times more subsidies than the median farmer;<\/li>\n<li>Scottie Pippen, professional basketball star, who received 39 times more subsidies than the median farmer;<\/li>\n<li>Ted Turner, the 25th wealthiest man in America, who received 38 times more subsidies than the median farmer; and<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Lay, the ousted Enron CEO and multi-millionaire, who received 3 times more subsidies than the median farmer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Budget\/bg1763.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four recipients of federal farm subsidies who likely don&#8217;t need the handout: David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan and grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who received 99 times more subsidies than the median farmer; Scottie Pippen, professional basketball star, who received 39 times more subsidies than the median farmer; Ted Turner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}