i was going to to make this non-partisan, but whoops, i've discovered an udder conspiracy!

[farminator3000]

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what, exactly is going on here?
4.5 BILLION dollars isn't enough cuts in food stamps for the House, so they bumblefuck every thing up for another 4
months, is what i'm getting here.

if the bill passes, it will be better than going back to 1949, but the House won't pass it because of "blah blah entitlements" and "its the senate's bill and the senate are poopyheads"!?!?!?

(me to the House)-frigging children. boo farty hoo, bitches.

you might have guessed i'm a farmer- never got subsidies or food stamps, so..

my opinions are
subsidies can be good or bad depending on who is giving them out,
food stamps are great, everyone should get them,
i'm all about cheaper milk, i drink it like a cow
REPUBLICANS SHOULD TAKE A SHORT WALK INTO A LONG MANURE POND

so, basically, our government has come down to "we have to do something" and the House says "yep, anything BUT what you want. no no no and no."

Understanding The 'Milk Cliff'

by Caitlin Kenney
December 28, 2012 1:37 PM

You've heard of the "fiscal cliff," but have you heard of the milk cliff"?

If Congress doesn't take action in the next four days, milk prices could shoot up dramatically.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/27/168147765/understanding-the-milk-cliff?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20121228

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New Effort in Congress to Extend Disputed Farm Bill
By RON NIXON
Published: December 28, 2012

WASHINGTON — Hoping to stave off the expiration of dozens of farm programs and a return to an antiquated 1949 farm law that could lead to a doubling of the price of milk, Senate and House leaders worked Friday to devise legislation that would extend the current farm bill.
The most recent farm bill, passed in 2008, expired on Sept. 30. If a new bill is not passed or the current one extended by Tuesday, farm programs would lose billions of dollars in financing and would revert to the 1949 law. The old law would reintroduce higher government price supports for milk, corn, rice, wheat and other crops and could lead to higher consumer prices and federal spending.
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The Senate passed a farm bill, but the House failed to bring up its version for a vote after Republicans split over the size of the cuts to nutrition programs.
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An extension would most likely wipe out billions of dollars in savings that lawmakers in both the Senate and House had achieved by cutting some farm and nutrition programs. The Senate bill would have saved about $23 billion. About $4.5 billion in savings would have come from cuts to the food stamp program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/us/politics/new-effort-in-congress-to-extend-disputed-farm-bill.html?_r=0

AND...

In December 2012, legislators were scrambling to pass a new Farm Bill before Congress adjourned on Dec. 14. Agricultural leaders in Congress were still deadlocked on two major issues — cuts in crop subsidies and reductions in food stamps, two of the four key negotiators said on Dec. 6.
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The Senate bill would cut food stamps by $4 billion.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/farm_bill_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier

SO...

Farm bill could be delayed until April 2013: farm policy analyst

By Christine Stebbins

MILWAUKEE | Mon Nov 5, 2012 8:00pm EST

(Reuters) - The Congress could delay passage of a new five-year farm bill until spring planting given the full plate of legislation needed after the election to avoid a fiscal cliff with its mandatory U.S. budget cuts, a top farm policy expert said on Monday.
"My prediction is that we will get a farm bill by April 2013. It will look very close to the Senate version," Barry Flinchbaugh, a Kansas State University agricultural economist who advises legislators on shaping U.S. farm bills, told an agricultural bankers meeting.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/06/us-usa-politics-farmbill-idUSBRE8A502D20121106

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I moove we address this issue sooner than later.

[farminator3000]

3. nice one!

it would really beHOOVE us to...

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Indeed. Those COWards in DC need to quit STALLing...

..and get away from the herd mentality.

[farminator3000]

6. i wish they'd stop MILKING us! I mean , where's the BEEF?

Two Cows in a field

Two cows were out in a field eating grass. One cow turns to the other cow and says, "Moooooo!"

"Hey", the other cow replies.... "I was just about to say the same thing!"

[seabeyond]

2. bitches? who are you calling bitches? nt

[farminator3000]

4. the republicans who are being poopy about basically everything, if that wasn't a joke..

[farminator3000]

7. What happens when you talk to a Republican cow?

IT GOES IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE UDDER!!!!