{"id":1071,"date":"2012-07-26T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-07-26T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:07:55","slug":"well-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/well-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, of course…"},"content":{"rendered":"

….once again, in a remarkable display of bi-partisanship despite the bitterness everywhere else, Republicans and Democrats have gotten together to produce another monstrosity of a Farm Bill.\u00a0 As befits such a bill, it is laden with 60% more pork than the last one.<\/p>\n

Corn subsidies are still there even though corn is at the highest price in history.\u00a0 And Californians will still get handouts to enjoy their foie gras<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s all in the time-honored tradition of what used to be called “log rolling”.\u00a0 I’ll vote for your bill if you’ll vote for mine.<\/p>\n

Sometime back, lawmakers from Ag states realized their grip on the process was slipping and so they moved the Food Stamp program into the Farm Bill.\u00a0 That way they get the city guys behind sugar subsidies.\u00a0 The Food Stamp program is now the largest single item in the bill.<\/p>\n

You can read about it here…a thousand pages of entitlement for just about everyone except the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2012\/07\/25\/The-Outrageous-Farm-Bill-Thats-Packed-with-Pork.aspx#page1<\/a><\/p>\n

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….once again, in a remarkable display of bi-partisanship despite the bitterness everywhere else, Republicans and Democrats have gotten together to produce another monstrosity of a Farm Bill.\u00a0 As befits such a bill, it is laden with 60% more pork than the last one. Corn subsidies are still there even though corn is at the highest price in history.\u00a0 And Californians will still get handouts to enjoy their foie gras.\u00a0 It’s all in the time-honored tradition of what used to be called “log rolling”.\u00a0 I’ll vote for your bill if you’ll vote for mine. Sometime back, lawmakers from Ag states realized their grip on the process was slipping and so they moved the Food Stamp program into the Farm Bill.\u00a0 That way they get the city guys behind sugar subsidies.\u00a0 The Food Stamp program is now the largest single item in the bill. You can read about it here…a thousand pages of entitlement for just about everyone except the taxpayer. http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2012\/07\/25\/The-Outrageous-Farm-Bill-Thats-Packed-with-Pork.aspx#page1  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}