Administration officials say they have offered to cut farm subsidies by 60 percent, for example.

"Soon we will have farm subsidies, just like in America."

It's hard for most Americans, who don't think about farm subsidies at all, to take this problem seriously.

Bush added that farm subsidies are among "our most expensive federal programs."

"Sometimes I think everyone here either gets a welfare check or a farm subsidy."

From 1995 to 2006, Gerald received $30,357 in federal farm subsidies.

It is a little late for Canada, which has cut annual farm subsidies to about $3 billion today.

The administration's $19 billion in annual farm subsidies were not part of the negotiations.

But those farm subsidies were supposed to be drying up by now.

American farm subsidies, even now, are only about one-third those of Europe.