Comments on: What’s Buried In The Farm Bill?

By: sanorio

sanorio — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:32:00 +0000

I think that $200 million for ‘got milk’ is a check off program. If it is, then the milk producers have funded it themselves…and you guys are screaming bloody murder over them self funding their own program. How dare they pay their own way?

By: retnepracfrederick

retnepracfrederick — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:28:00 +0000

let the milk producers pay their own way but then again we pay the poor oil companies @ insurance companies so they can stick us in the butt, but i forget that is the republicans bread and better stick em , i just read something below it not a dem or rep problem let me tell u oldtac who r the rich people in america 4 the most part they r republicans think about it, bush bankrupt the country with iraq he lied 2 everyone he and his clown chaney, we should have gone 2 afgan

By: oldtack

oldtack — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:27:00 +0000

Eleanore
I agree with your sentiments. But, this is not solely a Republican ploy. All the various subsidies and “pork” gained mometum in the early 1930′s during the depression. These programs were set up with good intent but, like a canchre, what began as a small aid program metamorphosized into the massive waste we see today. This is not a Republican nor a Democrat problem. It is a Congressional problem. If you will note – the one Senator “screaming” about this is a Republican – John McCain.

This waste is not just in the Farm Bill, it is prevalent in every Government subsidy program. This is why WE THE PEOPLE need to emulate the organizational strategies of the Tea Party with our voices and our votes to oust the galley rats from Washington and replace them. We need “young blood” with knowledge and vision to purge the entire system from the Tax structure to all subsidies. Restructure and keep those programs deemed necessarty and discard all others.

I don’t care for the Tea Party idealogies per-se but I do admire their organizational abilities.

Have a good weekend.

By: William Schawo

William Schawo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Of course it is more important to give money to the fat cats than it is to have food stamps for the poor

By: Eleanore Whitaker

Eleanore Whitaker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:50:00 +0000

Republicans won’t be happy till every dime we earn ends up as tax subsidies for corporations. Why else do they want your SS, Medicare and Medicare payroll tax deductions in the hands of corporate fund managers?

By: howa4x

howa4x — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:39:00 +0000

This is typical republicrat(both parties) bill, dolling out the pork. The republicans in the house want to cut out programs that benefit young people like head start and curtail food stamps while giving business giants large subsidies. It’s welfare for the rich and tyranny for the poor. It’s a winner take all system and the winners never stop taking. How about using this money to fix our infastructure since 6000 bridges are unsafe or another stimulus package. But this is how Republicans do it. Faking concern for the middle class while funneling as much as they can to the upper class.

By: joemenyojr

joemenyojr — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:26:00 +0000

I truly like that catch PHRASE!
” Republican National Debt ”
And it sure was made in America and it was made by Bush Republicans.
If we all call it the Republican National Debt it can become a much more successful political weapon than the Wall Street demonstrations.

By: Teady

Teady — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:54:00 +0000

Sounds like congress is playing hot and loose with our money but what else is new. Hasn’t it always been that way? They use our money to fund what they like then leave us high and dry and yet we keep electing these clowns.

By: William Deutschlander

William Deutschlander — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:42:00 +0000

Sounds like this is much more important than creating jobs, funding unemployment benefits or paying down the Republican National Debt!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:38:00 +0000

And howare these “non-profits”?