FARM BILL FULL OF ****K ... SURPRISE, SURPRISE
The House is one step closer to passing this $290 billion farm bill.
President Bush says he will veto it but Congress thinks it has enough
votes
to override the veto. Why do I bring this up? Because this farm bill is
just
loaded with ****k and government entitlement program funding.
Take this, for example. Two-thirds of the bill (that's about $193 billion)
will pay for huge increases in food stamp programs, emergency food
assistance for the "needy," and nutrition aid to help people pay for
groceries. Another $40 billion will be paid to subsidize US farmers and
$30
billion will be paid for farmers to sit on their butts and do absolutely
nothing. That's $30 billion NOT to grow crops. This is happening at a time
when farm income is way up there.
And then there's the ****k. State projects including tax breaks for
Kentucky
racehorse owners and money for salmon fishermen in the Pacific Northwest
managed to sneak their way into the bill. Another one gives extra money to
"geographically disadvantaged farmers" in Hawaii and Alaska ... it is
essentially affirmative action for farmers.
Now get this. The legislation also includes a provision that would allow
state and local governments to issue bonds to help conservation groups buy
private lands. Why do they want to do this? It would give taxpayer money
as
incentives for these environmentalists to "keep pristine private lands out
of the hands of developers." That's according to Montana Democrat Senator
Max Baucus. As if that wasn't bad enough, Baucus also added $3.8 billion
to
pay farmers who lose their crops in weather-related disasters.
Republicans are largely in sup****t of this bill ... and they want us to
believe that they have changed.
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"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I
would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working
for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group.
And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
April 11 2007 B.Hussein Obama
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