What if farm subsidies for corporate farms were frozen?

Peacetrain

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Tue Jan-26-10 06:46 PM
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What if farm subsidies for corporate farms were frozen?

Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 06:52 PM by Peacetrain

Just asking?

A little something to chew on.. Bachmann got 250 thousand in farm subsidies

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1209/Antisocialist_Bachmann_got_250k_in_federal_farm_subsidies.html

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dave29

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Tue Jan-26-10 06:52 PM
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1. Too many living cows = more methane = climate catastrophe

Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 06:54 PM by dave29

is the logic I would predict... :)

edit to add: Fascist push towards arugula based economy

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Peacetrain

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Tue Jan-26-10 06:54 PM
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2. There you go

that was pretty good. ;)

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SpiralHawk

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:10 PM
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6. Arugula beats the hell out of a war-profits economy to enrich republicon chickenhawks

Although the clucksters would deny this reality...

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Kurt_and_Hunter

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Tue Jan-26-10 06:56 PM
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3. That would be fine, as long as the money was redirected to other spending

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Peacetrain

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Tue Jan-26-10 06:59 PM
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4. Guys, apparently I am one of the few, who does not have a clue what the cuts will be

Money that went to Bachmann and Grassley etc.. going back to pay down the deficit.. gotta say.. I am on board with that

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Wapsie B

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:09 PM
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5. That's what should happen, but Big Ag wouldn't stand for it.

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Peacetrain

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:11 PM
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7. I hear you.. as a fellow farm stater.. Big Ag, Corporate Meat Processors

the list is endless. But nothing sours me more than the corporate farms and feed lots, walking off with huge subsidies.

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Jennicut

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:14 PM
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8. I think this is part of what they will try for but even blue dogs will put up a stink.

Lincoln for one.

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Peacetrain

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:17 PM
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9. Some programs being frozen.. I have no problem with..

Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 07:54 PM by Peacetrain

Oh and they would put up a big stink. Grassley walks off with a ton of Subsidy money through the family connections.

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Jennicut

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:27 PM
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10. The so called "deficit cutters" are liars.

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GoCubsGo

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:34 PM
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11. The corporate agribusinesses would exercise their "free speech"

They would flood the airwaves, complaining that Obama is destroying the family farms. And, the ill-informed majority of citizens in this country would eat it right up.

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jwirr

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Tue Jan-26-10 07:57 PM
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12. I think Bachmann's farm is a family farm not a corporate farm. I agree

that corporate subsidies should be frozen. But if they are we had better start growing our own food. They will just quit.

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