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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama signs the farm bill
As if 800 million is going to balance the budget President Obama will sign the farm bill and protecting the lower class from overeating. As if the 1% food stamp cut is the bulk of the farm bill that will benefit many serving in Congress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/us/politics/farm-bill.html?_r=0
vi5
(13,305 posts)That's what matters, right?
frazzled
(18,402 posts)As if the Dairy Lobby would have gone broke if he hadn't voted for it.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)corporacy or hypocrisy or what ever one would label a government owned by billionaires and corporations.
I keep thinking what will happen if and when Republicans control both houses and the White House, I think we can kiss unions good bye,welcome in a national right- to-work law and watch the soup lines appear again as in the 30s and yet today we have a Democrat in the White House that will sign legislation that benefits millionaires but take money from familys that yes the 1% does make a difference in their food budget.
We elect Democrats to Congress but when they get there they turn out to be corpracrat Republicans. We need a real progressive party in this (what's left of our Democracy) if we are to survive.
Yep bet Monsanto Corp had a few bucks in the till to make sure this bill passed
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)drivers and delivery people off they have to find other ways to do their job because of the re-routing of traffic.