[thaumasiotes]

You don't get subsidies based on whether you need them. You get subsidies based on whether subsidizers like you. That's what a subsidy is.

[MichaelZuo]

How do they get the susidizers to like them over and above other groups willing to offer life and limb?

[thaumasiotes]

That question is nonsense; you're asking for subsidies. You have nothing to offer; you're taking, not giving.

If the other groups had something to offer, they wouldn't need subsidies either.

How badly you need something just doesn't have anything to do with whether someone will give it to you.

[MichaelZuo]

Do you really think lobbying groups or special interest groups, or groups in general, have ‘nothing’ to offer to politicians?