http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/food-stamp-cuts_n_3324418.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
me me me in congress, no surprise
WASHINGTON -- House Agriculture Committee Republicans who vocally supported billions in cuts to federal food assistance are big-time recipients of government help in the form of farm subsidies.
Reps. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) both cited the Bible last week to argue that while individual Christians have a responsibility to feed the poor, the federal government does not."We're all here on this committee making decisions about other people's money," Fincher said.LaMalfa said that while it's nice for politicians to boast about how they've helped their constituents, "That's all someone else's money."Yet both men's farms have received millions in federal assistance, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that advocates for more conservation and fewer subsidies. LaMalfa's family rice farm has received more than $5 million in commodity subsidiessince 1995, according to the group's analysis of data from the U.S. Agriculture Department. Fincher's farm has received more than $3 million in that time.
got it they want to deny constituents in order to keep their milking of the Gov't alive and lucradtive, are you seeing that hmmmm you been experiencing lately, or if this is your first time don't worry it's just an epiphany sudden realization that you have been hit by the right wing triple play, those you were told that were destroying the economy, obstruction of life giving sustanance, and still nothing for you in the package, tired yet?
Yet both men's farms have received millions in federal assistance, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that advocates for more conservation and fewer subsidies. LaMalfa's family rice farm has received more than $5 million in commodity subsidies since 1995, according to the group's analysis of data from the U.S. Agriculture Department. Fincher's farm has received more than $3 million in that time.Last year alone, Fincher's farm received $70,574 and LaMalfa's got $188,570.Spokespeople for the congressmen did not respond to requests for comment, but both LaMalfa and Fincher have defended their right to receive subsidies in the past when challenged by conservatives during primary elections. LaMalfa told a California paper that the subsidy system is needed to keep struggling farmers "on life support."Fincher has said his farm would have shut down without the subsidies, which he argued protect American farmers from more heavily subsidized foreign competition. "We would be all for not having government in our business," Fincher told the Washington Post in 2010, "but we need a fair system."The federal government's complex system of farm subsidies is supposed to shield farmers from some of the uncertainties inherent to the industry, but critics like the Environmental Working Group say the safety net unfairly benefits the biggest farms at the expense of smaller ones.
they see us as bottom of the page above the bottom line, they speak of their rights and gov't subsidies keeping them afloat, while you and yours float face down , down the river and over the falls but so far rich farmers got theirs and you well maybe a mention on 11pm news.
if they are killing us off by denying us what they get who they gonna sell their goods to Russia, Iran, Syria, China?
