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Bush Says He'd Sign Farm Bill
AP, via Newsday.com ^
| 5/2/02
| PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer
Posted on 05/02/2002 9:53:51 AM PDT by browardchad
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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President Bush said Thursday he will sign the election-year farm bill nearing final passage in Congress. It would boost spending by 70 percent and increase subsidies to grain and cotton farms while adding thousands of other producers to the federal dole.
Bush said the legislation isn't everything he wanted but will "help ensure the immediate and long-term viability of our farm economy."
The bill marks the reversal of the market-oriented policy of the 1996 Freedom to Farm law that was supposed to wean farmers from government subsidies.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; elections; farmsubsidies
To: browardchad
Hmmm... I keep asking myself why don't I ever get any other people's money courtesy of compassionate W or our esteemed Congress? Is this multi-billion $$$ compassion for pressure groups only? C'mon W, I got kids too!!! I honestly do and they should be given taxpayers money too. They are good kids. They don't farm but they're good.
To: browardchad
Under the bill, farms could continue to receive some subsidies in unlimited amounts.Unlimited amounts???
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posted on
05/02/2002 10:12:26 AM PDT
by
Gaston
To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
Really. I'm a retired steelworker who owns a farm on the side, my wife is in the airline industry. I figure I should make out very well...
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posted on
05/02/2002 10:12:37 AM PDT
by
conserv13
To: browardchad
Boy! And we thought things would change when we voted for Bush...man were we fooled...
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posted on
05/02/2002 10:24:20 AM PDT
by
kellynla
To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
Silly you
You only get subsidies if you run a pineapple farm in northern minnesota or run a hawaiin ski resort. You know sensible things.
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posted on
05/02/2002 10:24:28 AM PDT
by
rudehost
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: kellynla
Boy! And we thought things would change when we voted for Bush...man were we fooled... Of course they are changing. As the article points out, this bill would reverse the 1996, GOP-sponsored, 'freedom to farm act'.
To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
changing from bad to worse...
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posted on
05/02/2002 11:18:00 AM PDT
by
kellynla
To: browardchad
The bill marks the reversal of the market-oriented policy of the 1996 Freedom to Farm law that was supposed to wean farmers from government subsidies. Great. And how do the Bushophiles do this one?
To: RJCogburn
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