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Congress approves five-year farm bill
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| Feb 4, 2014
| David Rogers
Posted on 02/04/2014 12:12:04 PM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004
Long past time that we End Farm Subsidies.
To: GIdget2004
Those of you who heat with oil, pony up.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:17:25 PM PST
by
AU72
To: GIdget2004
'5-year measure'? Sounds an awful lot like '5-year Plan'.
Didn't we fight the Cold War for 40 years to defeat the USSR? Looks like we're becoming the USSR.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:21:16 PM PST
by
bassmaner
(Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
To: AU72
‘twould be interesting to see a vote tally.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:21:30 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: GIdget2004
Billions more for Food Stamps in this bill. Billions. Almost 80% of the total. But we cut military pensions for men and women in uniform who have been deployed 5 or 6 times - all to “save” $500 Million.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:22:34 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: SkyPilot
Anything in it for real farmers?
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:25:01 PM PST
by
tractorman
(I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
To: GIdget2004
A new Five Year Plan? Just like the old Soviet Union?
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:32:06 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:32:35 PM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes everything)
To: GIdget2004
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 HouseThese are fundamentals behind the first war between the states.
Farm subsidies and other policy affecting farm production (to include the absurdly wrong-headed, immoral ethynol requirement) have become way too political and not based on good sense. Estate taxes that cause the sale of family farms to pay taxes is an evil that favors corporate, big farm entities, not to mention vast increases in federal farm regulation that hit family farms the hardest. I'm not an expert,but it seems to me that, with respect to our food supply, the federal government is DEFINITELY NOT our friend.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:35:24 PM PST
by
RatRipper
(The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
To: JimRed
no - theirs might have actually accomplished something
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:43:12 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: RatRipper; SkyPilot; Oliviaforever
Of course the reasons food stamps and farm subsidies are lumped togetherare that it secures the votes of welfare state legislators and farm state legislators. Something for everyone!
What people fail to understand is that subsidies hurt those being subsidized. They see the immediate payola, but fail to see they get hurt in the long run. Farm subsidies are a big reason why the family farm is dying.
I read that this bill is even worse than earlier ones, because it puts taxpayers on the hook for almost any and all risks farmers face. Higher taxes and higher food prices. Once again we have the triumph of special interests over the good of the country.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:45:16 PM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: bassmaner
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:51:37 PM PST
by
henkster
(Communists never negotiate.)
To: henkster
Cool poster!
Was that their one millionth tractor produced?
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:54:02 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
To: Paine in the Neck
Looks like Grassley voted against the bill.
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:56:08 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
02/04/2014 12:57:22 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: GIdget2004
Another fine five year plan you’ve gotten us into, Stanley!
Time to loose the Keystone Pipeline Kops Brigade!
To: Pining_4_TX
Of course the reasons food stamps and farm subsidies are lumped togetherare that it secures the votes of welfare state legislators and farm state legislators. Something for everyone!And WalMart. They love selling subsidized ag to SNAP card shoppers.
To: GIdget2004; All
Unless your a Corporate Farmer or a Liberal Free Trader...you’re getting bleeped over by this welfare program
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posted on
02/04/2014 1:06:22 PM PST
by
SeminoleCounty
(A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
To: GIdget2004
Crony capitalism back on the ranch
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