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To: Nachum

“80% Of Trillion Dollar ‘Farm Bill’ Spent On Food Stamps, Not Farmers, Senator Say”

And when the food stamps are spent, a big chunk of that money ends up in the farmers pockets - so the farmers benefit handsomely from food stamps.

And I’m sure they lobby hard to make that program as big as possible.


7 posted on 07/20/2012 1:36:52 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Farmer end up with maybe 10-15% of dollars spent on food. “Ya could look it up!”


17 posted on 07/20/2012 9:31:36 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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