Posted on 07/02/2013 6:19:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
For decades, country and city interests had come together every few years to pass the farm bill, a measure that provided billions of dollars in subsidies to farmers and businesses in rural areas and food stamp money for urbanites. No more. The recent defeat of this year’s farm bill—traditionally a sturdy, albeit lonely pillar of cooperation in Washington—highlighted how the country-city political marriage became yet another victim of partisan politics in polarizing times. …
Here’s how the breakdown of a longtime coalition happened: Newly emboldened conservative groups pressured rural-state Republicans—many representing agricultural districts—with radio ad campaigns to oppose the five-year $940-billion bill, calling its proposed cuts to food stamps too little. Hardly faultless, Democrats, whose districts mostly encompass urban areas home to food-stamp recipients, refused to budge on cuts they considered too deep. Each party was fearful of angering their core supporters.
It was the height of partisanship over a measure that long had been devoid of it. …
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Heard a radio ad yesterday that said one in five children suffer from hunger. I also recently read that 47 million people are on food stamps. I need to know if this is considered hope or considered change?
It’s really “abolition of the family”, something straight out of the Communist Manifesto.
I find it quite interesting that the food stamp folks are also plagued by obesity.
“”””Newly emboldened conservative group””””
It says nothing about the fact that the dems have bloated this program beyond belief. Just another AP hit job on conservatives.
You see them all the time in EBT/Snap country. They're the 300 pound and plus seven year olds who eat constantly. They are always hungry.
“...country-city political marriage...”
It’s bad enough the big cities are the rat cancer in so many states, while the less populated areas are conservative bastions—the farm subsidies need to be stopped to dry up the pipeline of money to the rat cites in these sodomized bills.
Just wait till it comes to a head between Blacks and Hispanics over who gets the last few crumbs on the table.
Any child hungry in this country is the result of neglectful parents. It doesn’t matter how much money you give a neglectful parent, the kid will still not get fed.
“Any child hungry in this country is the result of neglectful parents.”
But those parents need their booze, drugs, tatoos, lottery tickets, cable TV, top of the line cell service, smokes, nice clothes, etc. etc. etc.
My teen comes into the kitchen to complain that she’s hungry. I tell her “You’re old enough to make your own lunch”. What’s the big deal?
A Farm Bill should be just that - a Farm Bill. I am so tired of the Christmas Tree bills, with pork upon pork just to get votes to pass it.
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