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Down the Gurney
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« on: July 14, 2013, 02:18:28 AM »

Oh no, let's not feed the poor children (47% of food stamp recipients are under 18).  Yet another reason why the GOP brand is so toxic.

Commieist!
Nice strawman. In fact, this bill barely touches the dole. It doesn't even touch the biggest dole of them all, Obamacare.
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2013, 11:07:06 PM »


You're bringing Obamacare into a discussion about food stamps are you're talking about strawmen?  Any fool can see that taking food stamps out of the agriculture bill is a prelude to House Republicans gutting the program.  Boehner says, "We'll get to that later."  LOL, yeah, right.

Subsidies to Big Agriculture are just so much more important to House Republicans than poor hungry people.  Never mind that error and fraud is considerably higher in the agricultural crop insurance program than in the food stamp program.  Do we really have to listen to another round of GOP sham talk about fiscal responsibility?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/politics/fraud-used-to-frame-farm-bill-debate.html

Yet Obamacare is the biggest dole of them all. It is taking 1/6 of the economy and turning it into a massive Goodwill sale. Not even archliberal LBJ imagined such a daring heist.

I agree that fraud in the agricultural subsidies is a major problem. It has only gotten worse under Obama, with your article stating, "Congress, however, has been reluctant to make changes in the $9 billion federal crop insurance program despite the fraud case in North Carolina and similar cases in recent years in California, Colorado and Ohio."

We should be killing all the cultures of corruption, notd just the ones that help people we like or hurt people we hate.
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