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The Farm Bill Falls - Conservatives refused to vote for “more of the same” food-stamp spending.
National Review Online ^ | June 21, 2013 | Katrina Trinko

Posted on 06/22/2013 3:39:34 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: ptsal

not to mention the food stamp industry.


21 posted on 06/22/2013 6:27:43 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: neverdem
There are no cuts. It's kerfluffle over nothing.

If you want to reduce the size and scope of the Federal Government. You have to have a strategy, you can't just lash out. The Democrats helped here, because they didn't want a work requirement.

The GOP, being the Stupid Party, has no strategy, has no set of priorities.

The number one attack on the GOP is that it's the party of the rich and big business. That's the perception. So, if you had a strategy to reduce the size and scope of the Federal Government, your first target would be corporate welfare, no food stamps for "starving people".

You go through the entire Federal Budget and eliminate all subsidies and at the same time introduce a flat ccrporate tax rate. Eliminate subsidies, grants, tax advantages, etc., etc., etc.

That's what you do first.

22 posted on 06/22/2013 6:42:14 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
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The Farm Bill Falls - Conservatives refused to vote for “more of the same” food-stamp spending.

The bottom line is that it was never a "farm" bill. It was another stealth welfare bill with a minuscule "farm" issue attached.
Too many working net-tax-paying Americans got wise to the scam.

23 posted on 06/22/2013 10:19:41 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Lancey Howard

“Are you bitter? You sound like a Democrat / moocher.”

Not hardly, but did forget the /sar tag. Were it up to me the food stamp budget would be about two bucks total.


24 posted on 06/23/2013 3:20:34 AM PDT by animal172 (My new hero....Trey Gowdy)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You are late. The libs started saying we want to starve folks about two minutes after the vote. One thing we can say about the other side is they are predictable.


25 posted on 06/23/2013 3:22:00 AM PDT by animal172 (My new hero....Trey Gowdy)
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Cool.
I usually don’t need sarc tags - - sorry about being a little slow.

FRegrads,
LH


26 posted on 06/23/2013 8:42:22 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: digger48

Big Gubment can watch us all day, every day, but can’t take luxury foods off the SNAP list?

Time for producers to demonstrate against the Trough Feeders, those with SNAP cars and those in Agencies with credit cards the taxpayer pays for.

How about this for a starting chant:

“SNAP’s STEAK AND CAKE HAVE GOT TO GO!”

or

“NO SNAP STEAK AND CAKE”


27 posted on 06/23/2013 9:40:49 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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