Senator Joni Ernst, the newly elected senator from Iowa, gave the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. In her response, she spoke glowingly of her family's humble beginnings:
They had very little to call their own except the sweat on their brow and the dirt on their hands. But they worked, they sacrificed, and they dreamed big dreams for their children and grandchildren.
And because they did, an ordinary Iowan like me has had some truly extraordinary opportunities because they showed me that you don’t need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference. You just need the freedom to dream big, and a whole lot of hard work.
To be clear, there can be no doubt farmers work hard. It's a work day that really never ends. But what Joni Ernst failed to mention is that her family did not succeed alone. They had a whole lot of federal help along the way:
Ernst’s father, Richard Culver, was given $14,705 in conservation payments and $23,690 in commodity subsidies by the federal government–with all but twelve dollars allocated for corn support. Richard’s brother, Dallas Culver, benefited from $367,141 in federal agricultural aid, with over $250,000 geared toward corn subsidies. And the brothers’ late grandfather Harold Culver received $57,479 from Washington—again, mostly corn subsidies—between 1995 and 2001. He passed away in January 2003.http://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn
they do forget how unhumble their past really was, and got to get this off my chest, the bread bag over the shoes deal unless those bags were steel belted radials how far can you get walking on presumably dirt roads without tearing them to shreds or were they driven to school in a Cadillac that's what republicans say about people on food stamps and welfare do they were aiming at Black and
Hispanics misleading who really gets the most food stamps.
http://politicalblindspot.com/the-food-stamp-capital-of-the-u-s-is-white-and-republican/
so just another republican starting their career on lies and innuendo nothing new same old same old, like i said before they didn't do her a favor sticking her out there all i got was ringing her own bell and Obama bashing had they not and had she not she might not have been exposed this early, guess they were living higher on the hog than she represented.
