Add a food stamp provision to a farm bill? They should be treated as two completely separate issues with separate votes. This is why Congress can’t get anything done. If one side comes up with a decent idea that could be helpful and that legislators could agree on, with maybe some minor tweaks, then the other side tacks on something completely irrelevant that they know the other side won’t agree to. While they’re at it they might as well tack on a provision to paint the Capitol building green with pink polka dots.
Food stamps have always been covered by the Dept of Ag. That’s why the entire department should be eliminated. As far as insurance, it should be handled by the private sector and the feds should have no involvement in it.
and simply elimnate subsudies to farmers. insurance agents and retail businesses don’t get subsidies; neither should farmers.
Monsatan and their multi-million dollar lobbyists and revolving door between their executives and those in high government positions will ensure farmers will continue to get subsidies.
Farmers are just a pass-through to Monsatan and other big corporate ag and their GMO seeds and chemicals.
Insurance Sam, thanks for the info. I didn’t know that food stamps were covered by the Dept. of Ag. I agree with your position on subsidies, especially when the recipients make a lot more money than I do (e.g. Michele Bachman). If farmers and others such as oil companies need money to start the growing season or to explore for oil, then it should be a loan that they pay back when they get their profits.
Sam,
Without a subsidy the crop insurance program would not work. Food and fiber is a national security issue. Farming is a risk that re-insurance companies will not cover without some type of government assurance. Without crop insurance most of the farming in the south and Southwest would not exist because bankers will not loan without that protection. You know how precarious it is to depend on foriegn oil… think about hoping you can buy grain from China or Russia.
Government farm subsidies are bogus. Say I were a waiter or bartender in a restaurant, and say that restaurant was hit by bad snowstorms for weeks on end, and as a result, no one came in to eat and I didn’t make any money in tips. Would I get some sort of subsidy for the drop in income due to bad weather? No, I wouldn’t, so why should farmers?
Add a food stamp provision to a farm bill? They should be treated as two completely separate issues with separate votes. This is why Congress can’t get anything done. If one side comes up with a decent idea that could be helpful and that legislators could agree on, with maybe some minor tweaks, then the other side tacks on something completely irrelevant that they know the other side won’t agree to. While they’re at it they might as well tack on a provision to paint the Capitol building green with pink polka dots.
Disgusting!
Food stamps have always been covered by the Dept of Ag. That’s why the entire department should be eliminated. As far as insurance, it should be handled by the private sector and the feds should have no involvement in it.
and simply elimnate subsudies to farmers. insurance agents and retail businesses don’t get subsidies; neither should farmers.
Monsatan and their multi-million dollar lobbyists and revolving door between their executives and those in high government positions will ensure farmers will continue to get subsidies.
Farmers are just a pass-through to Monsatan and other big corporate ag and their GMO seeds and chemicals.
Insurance Sam, thanks for the info. I didn’t know that food stamps were covered by the Dept. of Ag. I agree with your position on subsidies, especially when the recipients make a lot more money than I do (e.g. Michele Bachman). If farmers and others such as oil companies need money to start the growing season or to explore for oil, then it should be a loan that they pay back when they get their profits.
Sam,
Without a subsidy the crop insurance program would not work. Food and fiber is a national security issue. Farming is a risk that re-insurance companies will not cover without some type of government assurance. Without crop insurance most of the farming in the south and Southwest would not exist because bankers will not loan without that protection. You know how precarious it is to depend on foriegn oil… think about hoping you can buy grain from China or Russia.
Government farm subsidies are bogus. Say I were a waiter or bartender in a restaurant, and say that restaurant was hit by bad snowstorms for weeks on end, and as a result, no one came in to eat and I didn’t make any money in tips. Would I get some sort of subsidy for the drop in income due to bad weather? No, I wouldn’t, so why should farmers?