In an election year, nothing makes the left prouder and the right more nervous than subsidies and giveaways. So, both Dems and the GOP in the House will override the Bush veto of the pork heavy Farm Bill. (Kind of embarrassing to them when 34 pages of the bill disappeared before the House voted to override the veto and thus had to be rewritten and re-voted upon after extending the current farm bill, such is the Pelosi run House.)
It will be interesting to see how our presidential candidates (McCain, Obama, or Clinton) vote on it in the Senate
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for nutrition programs such as food stamps, about $40 billion is for farm subsidies and additional $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs.
Pork barrel funding at its finest. Will update the Obama, Clinton, McCain vote soon. Of note, Con. Etheridge and Con. Price support the bill. Congressman Etheridge often exhibits a total lack of fiscal knowledge, but his quotes on the matter are pretty funny.
?By vetoing the farm bill the president is standing against rural America and families in need.?
Etheridge defended the bill, saying the ?safety net? helps keep farmers afloat in uncertain times.
What Etheridge is saying is that in uncertain time, HE should take YOUR money in the form of economic incentives to farmers, oops, I mean subsidies. But Etheridge using tax money, $70 billion, to idle land and grow unnecessary crops is hilarious or maybe sad.
