"Fiscally conservative" GOP House passes $385 million farm bill (Ron Paul, Obama)
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Rather than considering a 5 year farm bill already passed by the Senate and lying on their desks, the House instead passed a temporary, "emergency" farm bill and left town, leaving both pieces of legislation sitting there.
The "emergency" measure is intended to help farmers and livestock producers affected by the drought by propping up prices. For instance, a cattleman would be paid 75% of the market value for his dead cows and 60% of his feed bill in counties officially designated as being in drought conditions. Orchard operators would receive payment for the costs of trimming his trees or preparing the ground for new trees if his have died.
Nowhere in this bill is crop insurance mentioned. I know a lot of cattlemen and some farmers, and they ALL have insurance against droughts for their crops and livestock. This $385 million of YOUR tax money would be, in essence, a payment ON TOP OF insurance payments! In other words, a windfall at YOUR expense.
Rather than considering a 5 year farm bill already passed by the Senate and lying on their desks, the House instead passed a temporary, "emergency" farm bill and left town, leaving both pieces of legislation sitting there.
The "emergency" measure is intended to help farmers and livestock producers affected by the drought by propping up prices. For instance, a cattleman would be paid 75% of the market value for his dead cows and 60% of his feed bill in counties officially designated as being in drought conditions. Orchard operators would receive payment for the costs of trimming his trees or preparing the ground for new trees if his have died.
Nowhere in this bill is crop insurance mentioned. I know a lot of cattlemen and some farmers, and they ALL have insurance against droughts for their crops and livestock. This $385 million of YOUR tax money would be, in essence, a payment ON TOP OF insurance payments! In other words, a windfall at YOUR expense.
As usual, the GOP preaches fiscal responsibility, then drains away your tax dollars while you're not looking.
Today's GOP is full of fantasy. They have this fantasy that they are for a smaller government or less spending. Anyone who observes history knows this to be false.
Today's GOP is full of fantasy. They have this fantasy that they are for a smaller government or less spending. Anyone who observes history knows this to be false.
This is why more are leaving the GOP for Constitutional Conservatism. The Progressive branches of the GOP and DNC both support statism and are largely fiscally irresponsible the the taxpayers' money.
Stop calling it the Farm Bill. 80% of it is for food stamps so it should be called the Food Stamp Bill.
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Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest
maybe Obama will veto it?
The Food Stamp POTUS tick-off farmers in the "cling to their guns & religion" fly-over country and food stamp recipients from his base alike in the last 90 days leading up to an election? Won't happen.
This is why more are leaving the GOP for Constitutional Conservatism. The Progressive branches of the GOP and DNC both support statism and are largely fiscally irresponsible the the taxpayers' money.
Ron Paul
Very few people actually want a smaller federal and military government. The problem is that most people are full of fantasy about waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending. They falsely believe that relative to the federal budget that the government could get significant savings from cutting those 3 things. This is a false notion.
The government spends its money on things that people want the government to fund. Once this is known it becomes very, very, very difficult to cut the actual functions of government because those functions are popular.
So instead of having a reality based discussion about the federal budget, this nation gets politicians and citizens having fantasy discussions about other citizens "abusing" the system, and they focus on programs with names they don't like, or they focus on certain government agencies that cost very little. But most of all what they do is lie, lie, lie, about the federal budget.
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