Stop cutting for USA citizens and businesses, and start cutting on foreign plans such as benefits for illegal immigrants or sending money to countries that are NOT allies of the USA.
Another money saver, how about all politicians find healthcare plans that we citizens have to use? Or how about stopping the practice of giving all politicians their salary for life?
Not commenting on the other parts of what you stated, but please fact check the piece about salaries for life. Senators/Reps. get the same benefits as any other federal employee: http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/congressional-pensions/
You can have the pension vs. 401K argument all you want, but saying they get their salary for life is not accurate.
Let’s remember that the Farm Bill also includes food stamps and other programs. To put all the blame on the American Farmer for the increase is absurd. Our money should be spent on feeding our own population, supporting our elderly and veterans, instead of aid to foreign countries and illegal immigrants, which will NEVER like or agree with the United States of America, regardless of how much money we pump into their countries! I agree with Mr. Kanauph’s comment that politicians should have to use the same healthcare as regular America, and NOT receive their salary for life.
…and again with the “healthcare of regular America” statement. All it takes is an Internet search to verify the stuff you read from more than once source. Congress has a great medical plan, but it’s a private plan and is almost identical to that of other federal employees, while still carrying an out-of-pocket premium.
Source:http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/health-care-for-members-of-congress/
Seriously people, there is plenty wrong with government and elsewhere in this country without general misinformation being taken as fact.
This is yet another insurance program I have difficulty understanding why the Federal government is involved with. Every business takes certain risks. Some are insurable (fire, wind storm, earthquake) and some are typically not (recession related, bad business decisions, etc.). Usually best to let the market set prices for insurance or determine the availability of such insurance. When governments get involved it always causes distortions, things get political and other people end up paying for the risk somebody else is taking. Not fair.
In general I agree with this sentiment, but when it comes to something as fundamental as feeding the population it doesn’t work.
Here’s why. If left to the market, when food prices are low and the economy strong, farm land will be converted into strip malls. When the economy inevitably tanks, the strip malls will be left empty, but the farm land is likely permanently gone. What ends up happening is an erosion of the country’s ability to sustain itself. Farm subsidies prevent this cycle from happening, perserving farm land and the ability of the nation to feed itself and profit from exports regardless of the overall state of the economy. When considering how little farm subsidies cost relative to other items in the budget, it’s an bargin long term.
Farmers more than anyone should know “your reap what you sew.” Time to abandon the Party of the Rich whose focus is on increasing the wealth on Wall Street – not the wealth of middle America.
I have talked to a lot of farmers and crop insurance tends to be the difference between a year being devastating or break even. If all they are doing is collecting on claims they will not make money. I have worked in the independant channel and also for a crop insurance company. considering how little most crop insurance companies net I would not say that this is a cash cow for anyone.
Hmm, working class families in historic communities facing rising seas and increasing flood risk should just pack-up and move because they shouldn’t have ‘entitlements’ but industrial farming, massive conglomerates of verticlally intergrated monopolies aka agribusiness can’t function without welfare at every level. So much for the beloved ‘free market’
Stop cutting for USA citizens and businesses, and start cutting on foreign plans such as benefits for illegal immigrants or sending money to countries that are NOT allies of the USA.
Another money saver, how about all politicians find healthcare plans that we citizens have to use? Or how about stopping the practice of giving all politicians their salary for life?
Not commenting on the other parts of what you stated, but please fact check the piece about salaries for life. Senators/Reps. get the same benefits as any other federal employee: http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/congressional-pensions/
You can have the pension vs. 401K argument all you want, but saying they get their salary for life is not accurate.
Let’s remember that the Farm Bill also includes food stamps and other programs. To put all the blame on the American Farmer for the increase is absurd. Our money should be spent on feeding our own population, supporting our elderly and veterans, instead of aid to foreign countries and illegal immigrants, which will NEVER like or agree with the United States of America, regardless of how much money we pump into their countries! I agree with Mr. Kanauph’s comment that politicians should have to use the same healthcare as regular America, and NOT receive their salary for life.
…and again with the “healthcare of regular America” statement. All it takes is an Internet search to verify the stuff you read from more than once source. Congress has a great medical plan, but it’s a private plan and is almost identical to that of other federal employees, while still carrying an out-of-pocket premium.
Source:http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/health-care-for-members-of-congress/
Seriously people, there is plenty wrong with government and elsewhere in this country without general misinformation being taken as fact.
This is yet another insurance program I have difficulty understanding why the Federal government is involved with. Every business takes certain risks. Some are insurable (fire, wind storm, earthquake) and some are typically not (recession related, bad business decisions, etc.). Usually best to let the market set prices for insurance or determine the availability of such insurance. When governments get involved it always causes distortions, things get political and other people end up paying for the risk somebody else is taking. Not fair.
In general I agree with this sentiment, but when it comes to something as fundamental as feeding the population it doesn’t work.
Here’s why. If left to the market, when food prices are low and the economy strong, farm land will be converted into strip malls. When the economy inevitably tanks, the strip malls will be left empty, but the farm land is likely permanently gone. What ends up happening is an erosion of the country’s ability to sustain itself. Farm subsidies prevent this cycle from happening, perserving farm land and the ability of the nation to feed itself and profit from exports regardless of the overall state of the economy. When considering how little farm subsidies cost relative to other items in the budget, it’s an bargin long term.
Farmers more than anyone should know “your reap what you sew.” Time to abandon the Party of the Rich whose focus is on increasing the wealth on Wall Street – not the wealth of middle America.
Ted,
What???????????
I have talked to a lot of farmers and crop insurance tends to be the difference between a year being devastating or break even. If all they are doing is collecting on claims they will not make money. I have worked in the independant channel and also for a crop insurance company. considering how little most crop insurance companies net I would not say that this is a cash cow for anyone.
like Dave says, the Feds shouldn’t be in the insurance business. let private enterprise handle it – 100% – without any involvement of the Feds.
Hmm, working class families in historic communities facing rising seas and increasing flood risk should just pack-up and move because they shouldn’t have ‘entitlements’ but industrial farming, massive conglomerates of verticlally intergrated monopolies aka agribusiness can’t function without welfare at every level. So much for the beloved ‘free market’
More efforts by the Muslims in office to weaken America further, step by step.
Without food, what’s the deal?