$383 million — where is this extra money coming from? we keep spending money… but where are the cuts?
i know we have to help farmers, but if we just keep spending and spending and spending — then we blame the president! when in reality we blame should be blaming congress for not providing w/in our budget. it’s as much a fault of their’s as the president for allowing us to spend more than we bring in. are we going to be like european countries? how much farther is our deficit going to be?
Yeah, but CalDude, that’s not what Fox News lies about. Remember, President Obama has the US checkbook. Hence, “giving Obama a blank check”…I actually heard someone on Fox suggest the lines at Chic-Fil-A are somewhat equivalent to Americans polling for the upcoming election. I also love it when a Fox story starts with, “Some people say…” Pretty much tells you right there that, “Yeah, we just totally made this BS up.” Stay positive, CalDude and continue to pursue the truth.
Rock on Cap’n. Just relying on my 9th grade civics class lessons and a desire to do my own research. If folks would use their own minds we could get a whole heck of alot more done!
I am not a crop expert but isn’t there federal crop insurance available to farmers to protect their crops? I think it has to be purchased at or before planting? If that is the case, why do we need an emergency drought spending bill? Or is this to fund federal crop insurance losses?
For a House hell bent on cutting expenditure, it seems quite willing to spend more money it doesn’t have, where is the money coming from — thought the Repubs were not going to spend anything unless they could show where it comes from? Oh, guess farm bills also fit in the same special category Pentagon spending falls into….
Unless the federal crop program has changed it is for crop including row crop farmers. I knew many an agent in rural areas that sold it to wheat, corn,, fruit and even tobacco farmers, but that has been some time ago. So unless there is something totally new, crop, including row crop farmers can purchase coverage. If they bought the coverage why do we need an emergency drought spending bill? If they did not buy then I would say sorry, you should have purchased crop insurance. Buy it next year. Otherwise, what have the program?
As far as cattle/sheep, if I recall correctly, the last time there was a big drought like this, I believe there was a state coordinated effort to provide hay, water by the truckload etc. It was a state to state effort and I believe that states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and those in the northeast sent a lot of help to drought stricken states. I thought that was terrific.
If you want to support farmers then go and buy local. Don’t go to a big box and buy produce that was shipped in from Asia. Go to a farmers market and buy it from the local farmer that grew it, picked it and put it in the truck to bring to market.
What happened was all ethanol related. The govt mandated 14 billion gallons of ethanol be brewed last year, and it took 40% of a good corn crop to do it. Now with the mandate still in place the livestock farmers are faced with having nothing to feed their livestock, and with Congress not wanting to end a profitable Lobby for themselves, are trying to buy off the livestock farmers, by making livestock insurance part of the crop insurance program. Get this, the Govt. pays over 50% of the premiums… ahem, you the tax payer will pay that on crop insurance, and probably 100% of the livestock bailout… because of their own interventions in the market, i.e. banking-insurance 2008.
What do you know…another bail out.
$383 million — where is this extra money coming from? we keep spending money… but where are the cuts?
i know we have to help farmers, but if we just keep spending and spending and spending — then we blame the president! when in reality we blame should be blaming congress for not providing w/in our budget. it’s as much a fault of their’s as the president for allowing us to spend more than we bring in. are we going to be like european countries? how much farther is our deficit going to be?
The House Ways & Means Committee has always controlled the purse strings of the country. The President is the last to see any of this.
Yeah, but CalDude, that’s not what Fox News lies about. Remember, President Obama has the US checkbook. Hence, “giving Obama a blank check”…I actually heard someone on Fox suggest the lines at Chic-Fil-A are somewhat equivalent to Americans polling for the upcoming election. I also love it when a Fox story starts with, “Some people say…” Pretty much tells you right there that, “Yeah, we just totally made this BS up.” Stay positive, CalDude and continue to pursue the truth.
Rock on Cap’n. Just relying on my 9th grade civics class lessons and a desire to do my own research. If folks would use their own minds we could get a whole heck of alot more done!
I am not a crop expert but isn’t there federal crop insurance available to farmers to protect their crops? I think it has to be purchased at or before planting? If that is the case, why do we need an emergency drought spending bill? Or is this to fund federal crop insurance losses?
The monies are for cattle/sheep ranchers, not row crop farmers.
For a House hell bent on cutting expenditure, it seems quite willing to spend more money it doesn’t have, where is the money coming from — thought the Repubs were not going to spend anything unless they could show where it comes from? Oh, guess farm bills also fit in the same special category Pentagon spending falls into….
Unless the federal crop program has changed it is for crop including row crop farmers. I knew many an agent in rural areas that sold it to wheat, corn,, fruit and even tobacco farmers, but that has been some time ago. So unless there is something totally new, crop, including row crop farmers can purchase coverage. If they bought the coverage why do we need an emergency drought spending bill? If they did not buy then I would say sorry, you should have purchased crop insurance. Buy it next year. Otherwise, what have the program?
As far as cattle/sheep, if I recall correctly, the last time there was a big drought like this, I believe there was a state coordinated effort to provide hay, water by the truckload etc. It was a state to state effort and I believe that states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and those in the northeast sent a lot of help to drought stricken states. I thought that was terrific.
If you want to support farmers then go and buy local. Don’t go to a big box and buy produce that was shipped in from Asia. Go to a farmers market and buy it from the local farmer that grew it, picked it and put it in the truck to bring to market.
What happened was all ethanol related. The govt mandated 14 billion gallons of ethanol be brewed last year, and it took 40% of a good corn crop to do it. Now with the mandate still in place the livestock farmers are faced with having nothing to feed their livestock, and with Congress not wanting to end a profitable Lobby for themselves, are trying to buy off the livestock farmers, by making livestock insurance part of the crop insurance program. Get this, the Govt. pays over 50% of the premiums… ahem, you the tax payer will pay that on crop insurance, and probably 100% of the livestock bailout… because of their own interventions in the market, i.e. banking-insurance 2008.