that the vast majority of the hard core right wingers who consistently attack the poor and the weak believe themselves to be christians.....I guess they've never actually read the new testament.... I don't think I remember christ saying anything about taking from the poor to give to the rich...

corporate agribusiness operations. It's the GOP way.

and fraud at almost every step of the way with the Pentagon procuring process...

All I can think is that a self-professing "Christian" nation would listen to Jesus when he said that, how you treat the least among you will show your true colors, or some short of thing like that...

Makes me want to puke.

... and $250,000 / year isn't all that much to get by on.



As you can see, reasoning with this person was futile.

Bachmann Has Income from Subsidized Farm
By Jonathan D. Salant and Lisa Lerer - Aug 16, 2011 3:33 PM ET

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a critic of federal spending, received between $5,000 and $15,000 in income last year from a family farm that has received more than $250,000 in federal subsidies, according to her most recent House financial-disclosure form.

If I recall correctly something like 65% of the current farm bill goes to food programs. If it only stood 45% of the cuts it's hard to argue injustice!

Thanks.

It makes little sense to evaluate the current farm bill vs. previous expenditures. It makes sense to evaluate it vs. current needs.

Not only is this bill cutting essential funding, it includes questionable subsidies. For example:

-The Lucas-Peterson farm bill would give every big subsidized grower a raise in the form of higher price guarantees for their crops – at a time when large commercial farms have average household incomes of more than $200,000 a year and net farm income has nearly doubled in recent years. The largest 10 percent of subsidized growers collect roughly three-fourths of federal farm subsidies, so the Lucas-Peterson farm bill will give mega-farms even more tax dollars to drive out small family farmers.

-Right now, farm businesses can get unlimited insurance subsidies. As a result, 26 of them collected more than $1 million each in 2011 and more than 10,000 growers collected more than $100,000 each. Rather than place reasonable limits on crop insurance, the Lucas-Peterson proposal actually expands insurance subsidies – at a cost of more than $9 billion! Reasonable reforms such as payment limits, means testing and administrative reforms – which are applied to SNAP but not crop insurance – could save taxpayers more than $20 billion.

(From http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2012/07/top-ten-reason-to-reject-the-house-farm-bill/)

Projections in 08 guessed the farm program outlay at 16.7b, actual spending for 09,10 was 17.3b yearly. The food program(stamp) estimate was 37.8b, actual came in at 63b. 78.4%
All programs in a farm bill are open ended due to market fluctuation. Therefore what is appropriated isn't the final tally!
The 5 year total for the 08 farm bill was 188.9b in 08, 314.3 in the 10 estimate reflecting actual spending. I not going too look for the final #s as I think the story is told here! I also doubt if they are out anyway.
If across 5 years we spent 401.8b and the next ten years we have projected to spend 969b, where are the cuts?
Boehner should be embarrassed!!
Hope you enjoyed dinner, farm haters!
Nationalaglawcenter.org
Congressional Research Center Dec 13 2010.

food stamps provide. But we live in an increasingly cruel and ideological country.