Posted on 01/30/2014 10:12:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
… The bill will cost nearly a trillion dollars over ten years. But, considering the bill itself is 702 pages long, the bill will cost about $1.4 billion per page.
If that doesn’t garner the attention of taxpayers, there was something else that bothered at least one member of the House today—how settling on cutting $8 billion of waste could be a called “compromise” between a $40 billion House cut and a $4 billion Senate cut. …
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Expensive paper.
I am guessing there are all kinds of non-farm inclusions. Let’s see. Maybe ObamaPhones; SNAP; EITC; WICs; Section 8; minimum wage; money for no-payback-home-loans; money for GREEN nothings; money for inner city skrools; money for voter education; money for jobs training; money for forties, Newports and lottos. Money for everything Democrat.
How much of the farm bill has anything to do with farming??
What about the other $900+ billion in waste?
I’m guessing about 5%, give or take a few percentage points.
Clearly, the senate is more tolerant than the house...
I own a small farm (inherited it a few years ago, which is the only way I can afford to keep it) and am insulted by the term “farm bill”. Since there are those who think farmers are all rich and drive Cadillacs, a few facts:
- Approximately 80% of this $1 trillion “Farm Bill” is for food stamps (and other ‘nutrition’ programs) - not farmers! Liberals have to hide their socialist spending addictions under non-descript names, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). BTW, the so-called $23 billion cut (over 10 years) is really just a reduction in the rate of increase. It actually represents an inflation-adjusted increase of $258 billion - that’s a 37% increase in real spending - most of which will NOT go to farmers.
- Americans spend 10% of their incomes on food – the lowest of any country.
- For every $1 spent on food, farmers receive less than 12 cents for the raw products.
- Farmers will need to double food production by 2050 to keep pace with the world’s population.
So, the next time a liberal tries to tell you how good farmers have it, give them some facts - they hate that!
Oink, oink, oink.
Thanks for posting that. I was scrolling down looking for attacks on “rich farmers”. One of the local lefties who writes frequently to the paper went on a rant about farmers having “nice houses and new trucks”. I recently found out he’s collecting disability checks, so who’s the one getting handouts?
You must be referring to food stamp recipients, since 80% of the money in the “farm bill” goes to them.
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