Do as I say, not as I do...

Standard Dubya... get upset about stuff that you yourself are doing to an even greater extent.

I am certainly sympathetic to the notion that Europe should reduce its trade barriers in agriculture, but the US has long been a major offender in this area... pardon me for using a term that has such negative racial connotations, but to use historical parlance I have long considered farmers to be some of the biggest "welfare queens" out there. Unfortunately, such statements often connotate attacks against Mom and Pop farms (BTW, DHP's Mom and Pop were in fact farmers) but in reality those getting the vast majority of these subsidies are huge agribusiness (see a small local example here). In a sense then, you can lump this as a bullet under the heading of the biggest welfare wonders of them all: big business.

And of course its not limited to agribusiness for Little George... other industries get the same attention unless it becomes too politically hot. That's why we won't be cutting farm subsidies by any real amount under Dubya: this administration never fails to do the thing that maximizes their political gain rather than maximize the good of the country (and the two are rarely the same).