Posted on 02/04/2014 12:12:04 PM PST by GIdget2004
The long-tortured farm bill cleared Congress Tuesday, ending a two year struggle that split the old farm-food coalition as never before and dramatized the growing isolation of agriculture and rural America in an ever more urban House.
Written off as dead just months ago, the giant five-year measure won final approval from the Senate on a 68-32 roll call and goes next to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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Does anyone know if this monstrosity fund Obama’s new EO ?
The hub thing?
Food Stamps is the gorilla in the room nobody wants to tackle.
The name “Farm Bill” needs to change to reflect its true purpose.
“Hog Trough Bill” would be more accurate.
The trough is now again full.
A few days ago, he announced he would. One might wonder if he'd vote against it if his vote was needed for passage.
A portion of these savings is then plowed back into emergency food programs as well as employment and training services. This includes $250 million for a set of pilot programs to test new ideas to move unemployed beneficiaries back into the workforce.
This has absolutely nothing to do with farming.
I'm all in favor of actually helping real farmers by freeing their businesses from government restraints as much as I am freeing any other kind of business.
But those farming operations that actually put food in the ground and harvest it deserve our gratitude.
I have no interest whatsoever in calling a New York investor a farmer.
Fascist bait.
Just like liberals only taught farming or spelling as is politically useful to their handlers like when they were all taught the true spelling of Potato to make fun of Dan Quayle... which until then was not on their radar screen as a word in the dictionary.
Ask this: why would walmart only allow food stamps as a main mean of charity?
Nope.
“Five year plan”. Now where have I heard that phrase before?
This thing was farmer welfare!! It makes me puke. And stop these damned free meals for the chIIIILLLDREn . Can they make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich like I did? God this is going to end.
Where is the non GMO provision in this bill?
Michael Taylor ?
Really?
He is so “Monsanto”!
Let’s make it a dirty word.
These people are beyond degenerate.
How many chemicals ending in “ide”, “ine” and “genises”
Do we want in our food and water?
Warren is retarded.
End of story..
Carpetbagging “fauxchaontas”
Ed Markey couldn’t find his “home” in Malden with a GPS.
But I am a nay voter on this one!
Every time government interferes in a market, it screws things up. The more it tries to fix the problems it causes, the worse things get. People need to understand that government cannot create wealth. It can only destroy it.
We became the USSA several years ago.
Yes, but of course, all we hear about is the drastic 1% cut in spending (in increases to spending, actually) to the SNAP program.
One.
Percent.
(and not even a true cut)
I hate the GOPe and their crybaby, sensitive-tie wearing Boehner.
another farm bill that will feather the nests of elitist multinational corporations that own the mega farms...
the little guy pounds sand.
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