New farm bill passed (price, buying, population, Canada)

[ognend]

Senate passes massive farm bill - CNN.com

Anyone know the "small print" in a concise few paragraphs? Major media outlets are not good at explaining all the "attachments" to bills or all the "unintended consequences".

Thanks!
OD

[duster1979]

I thrilled that the direct subsidies are gone.

[Submariner]

They 'cut' and 'cut' so much with this new Farm Bill, by adding 73 more amendments onto the bill, we will go from spending $500 Billion on the Farm Bill, to spending $969 Billion.

It is funny how making cuts means that you double the price of something.

I read where the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the 2008 Farm Bill would actually spend $604 Billion. [So the $500 Billion guess seems to have been in error to begin with].

So if legislators say this new one has been cut down to only $969 Billion, does that mean the accountants will find that its actually costs will be more like a Trillion and a third dollars?

Is this how cuts normally work when we are in a Recession - Depression and dying from debt-load?

[ognend]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

They 'cut' and 'cut' so much with this new Farm Bill, by adding 73 more amendments onto the bill, we will go from spending $500 Billion on the Farm Bill, to spending $969 Billion.

It is funny how making cuts means that you double the price of something.

I read where the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the 2008 Farm Bill would actually spend $604 Billion. [So the $500 Billion guess seems to have been in error to begin with].

So if legislators say this new one has been cut down to only $969 Billion, does that mean the accountants will find that its actually costs will be more like a Trillion and a third dollars?

Is this how cuts normally work when we are in a Recession - Depression and dying from debt-load?

Are you surprised though?

Thanks for pointing this out.

OD

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by ognend

Are you surprised though?

Thanks for pointing this out.

OD

Well, at a time when our nation seems ready to collapse from debt-load. It does seem odd that making so many 'cuts' results in near doubling the cost of a program.



Surprised?

I guess not.

If 'pro' is good, and 'con' is bad; then we have Pro-gress vs. Con-gress.

[redwolf fan]

Why is the farm bill not being cut steep enough ?

Because 80 percent of the farm bill spending goes for nutritional aid"

1 of 6 people now have the govt feeding them $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Submariner]

Today's version of bread-lines is 700+ Billion in food stamps.

[linicx]

If the Farm Bill was cut too much we would be buying the majority of our food from Canada.

[Submariner]

A quick google told me that in '11 we spent $78 Billion on food stamps to feed 45 Million people [roughly 15% of our nation].

By budgeting $700 Billion means that congress expects the bread lines to soon be feeding 400 Million. Which is greater than the documented population of our nation.