I wasn't denying that a lot of money is being spent, it's how it's spent. What I meant was that subsidies for producing various crops/animal products dwarf all

I wasn't denying that a lot of money is being spent, it's how it's spent. What I meant was that subsidies for producing various crops/animal products dwarf all the other spending on rural programs, and not a lot of effort is put into actually figuring out how to improve those communities, many of which are bleeding young people. There is no plan to maintain agricultural communities, and what's worse, that doesn't seem to be a desire for such a plan.