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This thread discusses the Content article: Congress votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidiesGood grief. Did they say how they were going to pay for it? About two-thirds of the bill would pay for domestic nutrition programs such as food stamps and emergency food aid for the needy. An additional $40 billion is for farm subsidies, while almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.$70 billion to farmers. Some to grow certain crops and others to just not grow anything. Is there any sanity left in Washington? |
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Pittakos wrote:This thread discusses the Content article: Congress votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies
Good grief. Did they say how they were going to pay for it?
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for domestic nutrition programs such as food stamps and emergency food aid for the needy. An additional $40 billion is for farm subsidies, while almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
$70 billion to farmers. Some to grow certain crops and others to just not grow anything. Is there any sanity left in Washington?Don't you just love the globalist planned world economy we get from Hatch and Cannon's globalist world trade agreements? Rice price dives as US and Japan set to unlock grain pactMay 16, 2008 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3943779.eceRice prices nosedived today as Japan moved closer to unlocking its massive hidden surplus and bullish supply forecasts routed speculators.
The price collapse came as commodity experts called on Japan and the US to urgently unwind one of the biggest "invisible" distortions in global rice markets: a quirk of World Trade Organisation rules that obliges Tokyo to buy grain it does not need and effectively turns millions of tons of high-grade American rice into feed for Japanese pigs.
If that distortion were removed, said researchers at the Washington-based Centre for Global Development (CGD), and the 1.5 million tons of unwanted US rice were released from Japan's storage silos, the crisis that has sent the price of the crop that feeds half the world would be instantly solved. Rice prices, suggested the group's forecasts, could even halve between now and June.
Standing in the way of that, however, is a rule that prevents Japan from re-exporting its reserves of US rice without permission from Washington - permission that has not been forthcoming until now, but which The Times has learned may be just hours away from being granted.
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Re:Congress votes to boost food stamps and farm su 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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Pittakos wrote:This thread discusses the Content article: Congress votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies
Good grief. Did they say how they were going to pay for it?
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for domestic nutrition programs such as food stamps and emergency food aid for the needy. An additional $40 billion is for farm subsidies, while almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
$70 billion to farmers. Some to grow certain crops and others to just not grow anything. Is there any sanity left in Washington?They think all of US are numb to their proposals... Maybe they will kickback some of their pay raises.......... NOT!!!!!!!!  Maybe they will give you a subsidy on your tomato plants...... 
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Blondie wrote:Pittakos wrote:
This thread discusses the Content article: Congress votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies
Good grief. Did they say how they were going to pay for it?
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for domestic nutrition programs such as food stamps and emergency food aid for the needy. An additional $40 billion is for farm subsidies, while almost $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
$70 billion to farmers. Some to grow certain crops and others to just not grow anything. Is there any sanity left in Washington?
They think all of US are numb to their proposals... Maybe they will kickback some of their pay raises.......... NOT!!!!!!!!
Maybe they will give you a subsidy on your tomato plants...... Speaking of, true to my word, those babies got stuck in the ground last night along with my zuchs, corn, and green beans. It felt good to play in the dirt.
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You might be on to something, Blondie. I'm taking a month long vacation this summer. I should get a subsidy for not occupying my home for a month.
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Pittakos wrote:You might be on to something, Blondie. I'm taking a month long vacation this summer. I should get a subsidy for not occupying my home for a month.There you go....... Get hold of Congress ASAP.... 
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