[1rudeboy]

Someone presently will be by to blame everything on free trade.

[MichaelCorleone]

The title reads there are no actual cuts in food stamps, but down the article there are 8.6 billion of cuts. Eight billion is a lot of pesos, no matter how you slice it.

[Wolfie]

The title is wrong, it should just be:

Disgusting $956B Farm Bill

Pissing and moaning about a small portion of the giveaways in the giveaway-palooza that is the Farm Bill is dumb.

[DannyTN]

Wall Street Advisor:Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years

The stores are full of imports while Americans sit idle.

[DannyTN]

Wall Street Advisor:Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years

The stores are full of imports while Americans sit idle.

[andyk]

So the bill is $956BB in spending, with an $8.6BB cut in food stamps.

Last years total was $964.6BB?

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SteelTrap. But beware of articles about federal bills related to agriculture which don't point out the following. As evidenced by the excerpt below from Butler v. United State, the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate agricultural production.

"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added)." --United States v. Butler, 1936.

Note that the excerpt even includes a reference to the 10th Amendment.

[gibsosa]

bump

[nascarnation]

How come nobody ever mentions the inflationary effect on food prices from food stamps?

Free money chasing food = higher prices.

[cookcounty]

Is that $956 billion over one year? or 10? or what?

The Washington Power Nuts are always obfuscating by switching back and forth when yapping, depending on whether they want a highly emotional number or more "moderate" number.

There should be a new way of writing about budget numbers, as in "$956 billion/o-ten," which equals "$95.6 billion/o-one."

[familyop]

“Recovery.” Yeah, right. That’s a ten percent cut in the whole food stamp program, BTW. We need a much larger manufacturing base on U.S. soil, and we need to be rid of local-yocal zoning laws against new, small manufacturing shops. Debt-sucking NIMBYs are the problem.