3 union-busting WI Repubs picked up over $300,000 in federal farm subsidies

Wisconsin State Senate Republicans Took Hundreds Of Thousands In Government Farm Subsidies
Sam Stein

WASHINGTON — At least three of the Wisconsin state Senate Republicans currently demanding that public workers sacrifice benefits, wages and even collective bargaining rights for the sake of the budget have applied for and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal farm subsidies, a Huffington Post review of state and federal records shows.

>From 1995 through 2009, state Sens. Luther Olsen, Dale Schultz and Sheila Harsdorf all had stakes in farms that received between them more than $300,000 in taxpayer funds.

Those federal appropriations had no direct impact on the state’s current budget woes, but the cash spent on those subsidies, which went to support a range of functions — from soybean production to small hog operations — could have been used elsewhere, perhaps even in Wisconsin. More than that, critics say, it muddles the notion, pushed by these lawmakers and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), that only they are serious about reining in an overextended, overspent government.
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/05/3-union-busting-wi-repubs-picked-up-over-300000-in-federal-farm-subsidies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewsFromUnderground+%28News+From+Underground%29&utm_content=T

it is just bad if someone else does it
That is the Regressive Party motto

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http://www.ewg.org/farmsubsidies

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He lives in a $1M house in River Hills. Wouldn't dare get his feet dirty on that farm that he owns.

Show this to a conservative,they will claim you made it up,show it to a centrist they will tell you liberal politicians are just as bad.

very exclusive economic relationships, which can, and do in our case, result in the economic power necessary to be elected to state and federal offices, not to mention appointments and such?

Politicians HAVE to do what politicians do in the systems in which they function, that doesn't mean that there is no difference in what one politician will do compared to another.