Comments on: A Veto-Proof Vote For Contested Farm Bill

White House Opposed Bill That Includes Big Increases For Farmer Subsidies And Food Stamps

[skyk-2009]

Just where does this money keep coming from? The dollar will be worth much less. Gas and food will go up because of all this uncontrolled spending.


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Posted by my2centss at 06:10 PM : May 15, 2008
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You folks never seem to object when the money is going to some corrupt contractor in Iraq... there is just a problem when the money helps REAL Americans huh?

[skyk-2009]

Here''''s your demobratic congress giving money to wealthy farmers to keep their land idle. What a laugh. Yep, more demobrats will surely make it better.


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Posted by maxify55 at 06:28 PM : May 15, 2008
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Are you saying there are 82 democrats in congress? Hummm? Your ability to add is as bad or worse than the Bush Administration. This is the result of FEAR my friend.. Politician''s, specifically Republican''s, scared. As they should be!!

[rudy654-2009]

Require that meats and other fresh foods carry labels with their country of origin.
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I would rather they report if Monsanto created them or something.

[rudy654-2009]

Cut a per-gallon ethanol tax credit for refiners from 51 cents to 45 cents. The credit supports the blending of fuel with the corn-based additive. More money would go to cellulosic ethanol, made from plant matter.
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There you go folks. More money to convert our food into krap, and will be supplied by you and me. Meanwhile, our food will rise in price, what''s left of it, and corporate farmers (not the little guy) will get as rich as the oil execs.

[naucoming4u]

So 2/3 of the bill is useful in helping the poor/needy/hungry. But it''s the other 1/3 of the bill that is an absolute PIG! (pun intended).

[my2centss]

"$290 billion"

Just where does this money keep coming from? The dollar will be worth much less. Gas and food will go up because of all this uncontrolled spending.

[omnibus66]

Farming is a tough business if you''re not a big corporate operation. You gamble everything you have every year. It only takes one bad weather year to wipe you out.

I had to quit farming about 20 years ago when prices were low and the weather was bad. Back then the corporate farms were just beginning to take over, but they now control the whole thing.

Paying taxpayers money to corporate farms makes no sense. The small farmer is gone forever, and the big boys are just sucking on the government because they can. Can you spell "GREED"?

[walt1944-2009]

The Great Emperor Bush II has threatened to veto a farm bill which HE CLAIMS is fiscally irresponsible!!!

Strangely, there has not been a peep from the Great Emperor at how he could take a surplus handed him by the Clinton administration in 2000 when he took over the throne, and turn it into a MEGA deficit which our great-great-great grandchildren will be paying for!

Despite the Great Emperor''s "twisted" logic, it is expected that Congress will do the UNTHINKABLE and will OVERRIDE the Great Emperor''s veto!

It is either that, or remain in Washington over the Memorial Day holiday for fear of being pelted by farmers throwing ripe tomatoes and rotten eggs at them if they dared return home!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, DEFINITELY MORE OF THE SAME, McCain!!!!

[crater7]

AND HOW DID THE THREE STOOGIES VOTE ON THIS BILL?

OOPS SORRY, I MENT THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

GOD "BLESS" AMERICA. NOT "G D" AMERICA.

[hober_mallow]

"Bush has threatened to veto the $290 billion bill, saying it is fiscally irresponsible and too generous to wealthy corporate farmers in a time of record crop prices..."

Replace ''wealthy corporate farmers'' with ''big oil'' and replace ''record crop prices'' with ''record gasoline prices'' and THEN we''ll see if Bush vetoes it !!!