The Senate is Republican right? You know, the party of Reagan and Trump.
Didn’t even know it was in the works. “easily passes” worries me. That probably means lots of kickbacks to pols.
Are these farm bills still necessary?
How much is this pork laden bill going to cost?
Personally, I DON’T CARE!!!
Give me the courts, and keep from passing Amnesty, and I’m perfectly happy. If they need a ‘farm bill’ now, so be it, I’ll fight that battle when the MUCH MORE IMPORTANT issues are dealt with.
The “farm” bill is mostly nutrition programs with a host of ag and rural related programs tacked on. In terms of money, the food stamp program is by far the biggest piece of USDA. In terms of personnel, the Forest Service is the biggest. APHIS is the most lethal agency in the federal government; if we really wanted to control the border, we’d put APHIS in charge and classify Mexicans as an invasive species. USDA does food safety (who do you think monitors slaughterhouses and packing plants), works on export promotion (the U.S. is the world’s biggest food exporter), monitors and certifies the quality of commodities in international trade, does a lot of work on conservation, and does a lot of basic scientific research. The farmer support system today has been whittled down mostly to subsidized crop insurance. The subsidy is intended mainly to help small and mid-sized farmers; the big guys could dispense with it easily and would then get even bigger as their smaller scale neighbors were forced out.
Are you saying they did something?
bkmk
Yet manufacturers get nothing. When a factory gets off shored and whole communities get devastated and NOBODY gives a sh!t.
Sorry, but whatever farmers need, they should get.
All winter long, the only fruit available is from south America. And IT STINKS.
Every fruit, every vegetable that comes from a foreign country sucks. I don’t know what or how our farmers do it, but their products are so superior that I would be willing to pay more, subsidize, hell, baby sit their kids.
We are blessed with them.
Honduras cantaloupes are particularly loathsome.