get a taste of what they've unleashed on the rest of the country, then they'll be ready to negotiate.

after the disaster on the plains this year i don`t think the folks will vote for any republican who holds up this bill.

when farm policy is discussed.

We're small family farmers, like many of the farmers where you and I live. In fact, the number of family farmers has been increasing. We can't get along without those subsidies.

farming state. Many of my friends have or grew up on farms, and a close friend married a farmer and they operate to this day. It must be difficult, to say the least, to hear some of this. I wish the "farms" could be distinguished between Big Corporate Mega Farms and smaller family farms for purposes of policy such as this. I am certainly conflicted about it, but I am pretty sure that is by design.

The people who need nutrition assistance can't get along without that help either. And not to minimize the consequences to you and yours, frankly, the failure to provide assistance puts them closer to real and immediate hunger than it does you.

Why would you think think that? Why are you making that assumption? Do you think we are overjoyed that the farm bill is being held hostage by greedy men who want to cut food assistance?

And if family farmers lose their farms and homes because of poor policies, how does that help them? How does it help to make them destitute and homeless?

I speak to my congressman every once in awhile. He is a stupid republican who does not listen, and blames everything on Democrats.

You are just one more DUer who does not understand anything about agriculture or farm policy, yet you think you have a right to judge and condescend to us.

But I do think you're worried about you own hide a heck of a lot more than you are worried about the hunger of the food stamp recipients. Your posts make that extremely clear.


I don't care if your congressman is a Republican, he's the one you should be attacking, not posters on an internet forum. In the time you've spent here you could have called AND written a letter telling the jerk how hard you are going to organize against him for creating this situation.

DUers didn't do it, HE did. If you can't figure that out...

We do not need any more beef(hard to digest) which take 12-14 pounds of feed to produce a single pound of beef.
Corn syrup(i.e cheap sugar) has done too much harm.

ya they are always looking for a way to do nothing while trying to look busy.

until those 1940's milk subsidies kick in and even people NOT on food stamps will be baying at the moon about milk prices.
If everyone in Congress wasn't beholden to corn farm aid would not even be necessary. Increase the minimum wage and food stamps could be a thing of the past. Sometimes I feel like Charles Grodin in DAVE....give me a sandwich and the budget and I'll take care of it.