Posted on 01/29/2014 10:34:53 AM PST by SteelTrap
Proving that neither party really wants to do anything about escalating costs of anything, in typical D.C. compromise action, the House Passes $956B Farm Bill in a bipartisan vote.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) all voted for the bill.
Democrats are howling over minuscule cuts in SNAP (food stamps). For example, an inane headline on the Daily Koz reads House passes food stamp-slashing farm bill.
Supposedly there will be $8.6 billion in devastating food stamp cuts. Even if that happens it is less than a 1% cut in an economy that is supposedly in recovery.
(Excerpt) Read more at globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com ...
Someone presently will be by to blame everything on free trade.
And the lack of available “workers”.
The best way to cut food stamps is to put people back to work.
Publishing fake unemployment numbers and claiming a recovery when there isn’t one doesn’t work.
The best way to cut food stamps is to put people back to work.
Publishing fake unemployment numbers and claiming a recovery when there isn’t one doesn’t work.
The title reads there are no actual cuts in food stamps, but down the article there are 8.6 billion of cuts. Eight billion is a lot of pesos, no matter how you slice it.
The title is wrong, it should just be:
Disgusting $956B Farm Bill
Pissing and moaning about a small portion of the giveaways in the giveaway-palooza that is the Farm Bill is dumb.
The stores are full of imports while Americans sit idle.
The stores are full of imports while Americans sit idle.
So the bill is $956BB in spending, with an $8.6BB cut in food stamps.
Last years total was $964.6BB?
Never get tired of seeing the Shadowstats hockey-stick graph.
If you read the article you will realize no actual cut will take place.
One area they could save on is to deduct the amount of the school breakfast lunch and in some cases supper given.
since the parents aren’t providing these meals they could be getting the food stamp allotment for them
Did you see the other article I posted that says unemployment is really 37%?
Shadowstats is conservative.
Thanks for the reply. Just so you know I did try to get to the article three times but the link didn’t work for me for some reason.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added)." --United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that the excerpt even includes a reference to the 10th Amendment.
The Farm Bill is nearly exclusively a subsidy for Free Trade. Someone of your slight intelligence and fanboy devotion to Globalism is never going to accept that.
Oh, please elaborate. The Farm Bill is a testament to your God: Big Government.
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