[SkyPilot]

Pay attention boys and girls - this is how Washington corruption really works.

This is a massive Food Stamp bill as well as a giveaway to the farm lobby.

What I find obscene is that Paul Ryan and the majority of the GOP found it necessary to cut military pensions (and betray our men and women in uniform) to save $0.6 Billion a year, yet we have the money for this?

This is choice they made: betray our military, and give away hundreds of Billions in farm subsidies.

GOP nixed Dems’ farm subsidy cuts, slashed military pensions instead?

Capitol Hill sources have advised this reporter that Paul Ryan-led Republicans included the cut in career military pensions (reported yesterday at JoeForAmerica) in their own Ryan-Murray budget negotiations-proposal and that Maryland Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen offered to replace them (the ONLY CUTS in the budget proposal) with savings in farm subsidies. Recent reports confirm that Rep. Van Hollen had also offered the same deal on farm subsidies in exchange for a three-month extension in unemployment benefits late last year as well as currently; but that when the GOP balked at addressing extended-UI in 2013, the Maryland Democrat, upon seeing the military pension cuts that Republicans inserted in Ryan-Murray budget negotiations, offered up the farm bill cuts to offset them. Yet, despite Republican Party rhetoric asserting opposition to such subsidies in principle, the GOP leadership chose to make the military pension cuts the only ones in a budget whose main purpose was to prevent another government shutdown. Rep. Ryan (R-WI) admitted as much Monday’s Hugh Hewitt talk radio show, in which a veteran caller referred to “limited liability patriotism” as responsible for the lack of appreciation of the sacrifices being made by volunteers for service in the armed forces.

Tell me why again I am supposed to vote for these guys?

[SeminoleCounty]

We gotta subsidize all that food we ship out of the country...because the Communist Chinese subsidize their Agri products even more. It would be more beneficial to tariff the Communist Chinese than to tax American citizens to subsidize American Ag.

[ilovesarah2012]

Why is there even such a thing as a “Farm Bill”? Why not just call it a food stamps bill? The federal government is so out of control that there is no stopping it, or even slowing it down. And the debt ceiling will be raised again. America has become The Pruitts of Southampton. That was an old TV show starring Phyllis Diller. For some reason, I have never forgotten it. Her family was rich but lost their money and owed the IRS a fortune. I forget the details but the family went on living as though they were still rich even though they were very broke. That’s America now.

[napscoordinator]

I read the entire news article that was provided at the link and did not see anything at all about Food Stamps. They did mention Milk going sky high if they do not pass this bill. I am not sure about that since milk is cheap as heck already. 3.50 dollars a gallon at 10 glasses (at least) is only 35 cents a glass. I mean I am not sure that they need to pass 1 trillion just to keep milk from going to 5 dollars a gallon or 50 cents a glass.

[Crazieman]

We don’t need no stinkin’ Article V Amendments convention! Just vote more Republicans! That’ll fix it.

[VerySadAmerican]

Eddy Munster is a congressman. That’s how low we’ve fallen.

I have to admit I’d love to see someone in the military arresting these crooks. It seems that’s the only hope for this nation. And it will never happen. Not in a good way.

[GeronL]

Corporate handouts, ethonol subsidies and food stamps

Of course the Republican House will love them some of that.

*argh*

[TurboZamboni]

In the Midwest, farmers leading the way on solar power

In Washington County, Iowa, for example, farmers with access to an unusual and lucrative combination of federal, state and utility incentives were anticipating payback periods of as little as two years, according to Ed Raber, director of the county’s economic development corporation.

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2014/01/27/in-the-midwest-farmers-leading-the-way-on-solar-power/

WOOHOO! farm pimps rejoice!