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2nd Term Part 5: Big Brotha

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Soooo knucks, perhaps you can explain something to me. Why is it that in a bill where the GOP has cut food stamps under the guise of saving money....are there massive agricultural subsidies whose costs far dwarf the food stamp savings?!?!? I mean, that's a bit hypocritical right, yet almost all of your loony libertarian heroes voted for it. I'm calling out Fishy, Flaggy, etc. What gives people?

http://theweek.com/article/index/250118/why-republicans-will-subsidize-farmers-but-not-the-hungry

Maybe it's because several of those Republicans collect corporate welfare themselves?
 
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Gotta love that our tax dollars are paying for Ted Cruz to read "Green Eggs And Ham".

Meh, they're salaried. then again, I think they get a per diem added onto their salaries, so it likely does cost some money.

RE: The ag subsidies. I'd like to see them go away. They distort the commodities markets and generally raise the cost of food (unintended consequences are fun!). The problem is that they buy too many votes for anyone to seriously oppose them from any state with a considerable ag business.

As to the SNAP cuts, the program has gone from about $20B per year in 2008 to about $40B currently. Cutting $4B in funding from it by forcing able-bodied adults 18-50 with no minor dependents to actually search for a job is hardly an unreasonable request.
 
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As to the SNAP cuts, the program has gone from about $20B per year in 2008 to about $40B currently. Cutting $4B in funding from it by forcing able-bodied adults 18-50 with no minor dependents to actually search for a job is hardly an unreasonable request.

You plan on hiring them?
 
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You plan on hiring them?

The numbers of people that have to look for work and those that actually find work are not 1:1. Those that do get hired are the ones who will, in theory, create the $4B cut in expenditures.
 
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Gotta love that our tax dollars are paying for Ted Cruz to read "Green Eggs And Ham".
Another Senator in a different time and place read, I believe, the Manhattan phone book. I would submit the GE&H has more intellectual content than a phone book. However, you'd probably find more Nobel Prize winners in the phone book.
 
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That's pretty much already happened. I'm sure they're just working on the gap and making it wider at this point.

Get rid of the minimum wage, abolish the EPA and defang OSHA and we're as good as Bangladesh.
 
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The decent of the GOP kinda mirrors what happened to the Mafia in this country. Back when it was formed, the mob bosses were born dirt poor and climbed the ladder the hard way, but bumping off rivals. Their kids on the other hand were a bunch of private school educated, fancy car driving country clubbers with none of the ruthlessness of their predecessors. In a generation they were all but out of business.

Likewise, the GOP of the 70's was made up of self made men born poor but on a mission (Nixon, Reagan, Ford, etc). Their ideas were of course nonsensical, but didn't seem self serving given their upbringing. Now you have a bunch of Ivy League educated, born into wealth candy ***es like Bush, Romney, etc who really never had to work a day in their lives. Then they're flabbergasted when people on unemployment don't think giving Paris Hilton a tax break is going to improve the economy any. Like the aforementioned Mob, they're getting close to going out of business if they don't change their ways. ;) :D
 
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The decent of the GOP kinda mirrors what happened to the Mafia in this country. Back when it was formed, the mob bosses were born dirt poor and climbed the ladder the hard way, but bumping off rivals. Their kids on the other hand were a bunch of private school educated, fancy car driving country clubbers with none of the ruthlessness of their predecessors. In a generation they were all but out of business.

Likewise, the GOP of the 70's was made up of self made men born poor but on a mission (Nixon, Reagan, Ford, etc). Their ideas were of course nonsensical, but didn't seem self serving given their upbringing. Now you have a bunch of Ivy League educated, born into wealth candy ***es like Bush, Romney, etc who really never had to work a day in their lives. Then they're flabbergasted when people on unemployment don't think giving Paris Hilton a tax break is going to improve the economy any. Like the aforementioned Mob, they're getting close to going out of business if they don't change their ways. ;) :D

No Christmas goose in the history of the planet has been stuffed with more shiza than you.
 
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