U.S. senators cast their vote for mega-farms by voting against the Grassley-Dorgan amendment to the budget reconciliation bill. The amendment would have capped farm subsidies at $250,000 and closed the loopholes that have allowed mega-farms to collect giant payments — often in excess of $1 million.
Senators — who were forced to cut $3 billion from the agriculture budget — should have saved money by approving these needed subsidy reforms instead of slashing funds for important conservation programs.
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Not a surprise!
Those that got gets. Politicians want those big campaign contributions to keep their jobs that they don’t do; you know, represent the people and be frugal with our tax dollars. Damn, I forgot, they are federal funds. lol
Yup, BushCo. & the Republicans cut Head Start and school lunches so the wealthy can keep their WELFARE PAYMENTS.
And idiots like Esod, Wilson, and Heckler help them do it while complaining about “discrimination” against the rich.
Welcome to Bizzaro World–it used to be America.
They are not doing what the President has said he promotes, which is free trade through NAFTA & the WTO. Oh my!I know there’s not much substance in my posts and that’s because I don’t have time to post the long point by point arguments. If esod don’t like my short posts then good!I prefer to read and write the short stuff. I’m getting the same info as everybody else, and don’t feel like reposting the same stuff over and over. If I got as many negative comments here as some other commenters get, I would go somewhere else to comment.
Trace–
Don’t let the wacko wingers jerk your chain.
You don’t need to dignify their non-sense with a response.
:)
I AGREE.They get plenty of answers that are correct and on point. You can quote the experts on each subject and they’ll still want to twist it.
How can we continue to subsidise the fat cats while the small farmers continue to go under? Why are we sending the big money to the corporate farms at the same time we’re cutting food stamps? Somebody want to explain “compassionate conservativism” to me again? These damn republicans are sure big on corporate welfare.
Because the small farmers continue to cut their own throats by voting Republican.
I always refused to believe the stereotype about the “dumb farmer,” but I’m starting to wonder how long they can continue to get hit over the head before they see who’s hitting them . . .
Galahad, it always amazes me how Kansans can vote against their own interests…repeatedly. That especially includes farmers. They complain about cutting subsidies, but vote for the cutters. They may end up dirt poor, but they’re good staunch republicans, by God! Meanwhile, republican policy forces them off the land and turns their land over to the corporate farms.Dumb farmers? Hummm….
In the early 1990s farm subsidies were controlled in each county by a panel of the largest farmers who voted subsidies for each other while the little guys got little or nothing. Clinton was supposed to have fixed that, but farmers are still getting huge subsidies for letting land lie unused, such as one IN RETIREMENT!!!!!! who still gets approx. $70,000 per year for leaving a couple of hundred acres unfarmed. Nice retirement. Why work anyway? It’s the little farmer who gets the shaft.
You talk about the little farmer. Just try to start a farm. You won’t be able to do it.
Joe, I come from “farms”. Nobody starts a farm; they’re inherited, LOL.
Exactly xxx. ;)