Bob, I would never send you to Cox’s to buy Searsucker pants, you appear so stupid with your comment, you’d probably go to sears. The government controls the commodity prices for most farmers keeping it down so that you can buy cheap groceries. They also create hazards by ineffectual and inefficient policies put in place by people like Reid and Pelosi who are liberal idiots that probably shop with you. Then when a catastrophy strikes they are the ones who claim “Farmers make such huge profits”, they shoudn’t have planted there in the first place. I remember years when it cost $2.95 per bushel to raise wheat and all the feds would pay was $1.92 per bushel. Guess that’s what you were referring to with your big profit statement.
And so, like people who choose to live in areas subject to frequent risk of flooding, we will pay for these farmers who have decided to take the risk of farming so close to a major river that floods every so often. My opinion is that we should make this the last bailout for something like this. Next time, it’s your dime.
Except in this situation, there had not been a comparable flood in 60 years. Also during those same 60 years, the Army Corps of Engineers had taken over the management of the river.
The problem in 2011 flooding was too much rain, plus actions of the Corps of Engineers to hold back water for the lower Mississippi valley and then refusal to adjust releases when heavy rain was forecast on top of historic high mountain snow levels. These farmers were flooded by government ineptitude. The flood risk stays the same from natural forces, but the proximate cause was the Corps of Engineers failure to adequately meet the established flood control priority.
This should be yet another dramatic wake-up call for the frenzied GOP climate deniers waging a war against science in the name of their own personal religious beliefs. I’m sure it won’t be.
For decades, science told us in no uncertain terms that the status quo would result in routine catastrophic weather events, large winter storms, severe summer droughts, spring floods, increased global temperatures, Arctic sea ice melting, rising sea levels and a desertification of the central and midwest United States.
What have we seen in recent years? Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, town-swallowing F5 tornados, softball sized hail, severe droughts and summer heat unlike anything we’ve seen, massive flooding from Iowa & Nebraska to Nashville and all the way down the Mississippi, severe winter storms, gargantuan and repeated wildfires (for example New Mexico’s wild fire, currently still near 0% containment, shattered the state record–which was set last year), and more.
We talk about so much in politics like birth control that serve only as a distraction akin to Nero fiddling away while Rome burned. Perhaps we should really be talking about the possibility that our children and grandchildren will face the spectre of a mass extinction event in their lifetimes and about what kinds of things we can do to stop that from happening.
But, I digress. “Drill baby drill!” “God gave us the earth to exploit however we want!” and of course “On my first day in office I will chain shut the doors of the E.P.A.”
“God gave us the earth to exploit however we want!”
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which has seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:28-30
So when the farmers make large profits off the land they will share those with the taxpayers as well????
Just the same as any other business that receives disaster aid after a hurricane, tornado, forest fire…
We have a broken goverment safety net – surprise. Why should government subsidize poor decisions of individuals or businesses?
That said, farmers pay taxes too.
Bob, I would never send you to Cox’s to buy Searsucker pants, you appear so stupid with your comment, you’d probably go to sears. The government controls the commodity prices for most farmers keeping it down so that you can buy cheap groceries. They also create hazards by ineffectual and inefficient policies put in place by people like Reid and Pelosi who are liberal idiots that probably shop with you. Then when a catastrophy strikes they are the ones who claim “Farmers make such huge profits”, they shoudn’t have planted there in the first place. I remember years when it cost $2.95 per bushel to raise wheat and all the feds would pay was $1.92 per bushel. Guess that’s what you were referring to with your big profit statement.
Reid and Pelosi? Funny, these states are vastly Republican represented. But with geniuses like Steve King, they don’t have to worry.
And so, like people who choose to live in areas subject to frequent risk of flooding, we will pay for these farmers who have decided to take the risk of farming so close to a major river that floods every so often. My opinion is that we should make this the last bailout for something like this. Next time, it’s your dime.
You’d think that was the case.
Except in this situation, there had not been a comparable flood in 60 years. Also during those same 60 years, the Army Corps of Engineers had taken over the management of the river.
The problem in 2011 flooding was too much rain, plus actions of the Corps of Engineers to hold back water for the lower Mississippi valley and then refusal to adjust releases when heavy rain was forecast on top of historic high mountain snow levels. These farmers were flooded by government ineptitude. The flood risk stays the same from natural forces, but the proximate cause was the Corps of Engineers failure to adequately meet the established flood control priority.
This should be yet another dramatic wake-up call for the frenzied GOP climate deniers waging a war against science in the name of their own personal religious beliefs. I’m sure it won’t be.
For decades, science told us in no uncertain terms that the status quo would result in routine catastrophic weather events, large winter storms, severe summer droughts, spring floods, increased global temperatures, Arctic sea ice melting, rising sea levels and a desertification of the central and midwest United States.
What have we seen in recent years? Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, town-swallowing F5 tornados, softball sized hail, severe droughts and summer heat unlike anything we’ve seen, massive flooding from Iowa & Nebraska to Nashville and all the way down the Mississippi, severe winter storms, gargantuan and repeated wildfires (for example New Mexico’s wild fire, currently still near 0% containment, shattered the state record–which was set last year), and more.
We talk about so much in politics like birth control that serve only as a distraction akin to Nero fiddling away while Rome burned. Perhaps we should really be talking about the possibility that our children and grandchildren will face the spectre of a mass extinction event in their lifetimes and about what kinds of things we can do to stop that from happening.
But, I digress. “Drill baby drill!” “God gave us the earth to exploit however we want!” and of course “On my first day in office I will chain shut the doors of the E.P.A.”
“God gave us the earth to exploit however we want!”
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which has seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:28-30