*EXPOSE* Many Congressmen and Senators are buying their way into Congress to protect their subsidies
In exchange, they cast their votes to help the 1% that fill their coffers with campaign donations.
Joni Ernst is only the latest. Charles Pierce has exposed her poverty trek to get to Congress very clearly: "The truth about her family's farm roots and living within one's means, however, is more complex. Relatives of Ernst (née: Culver), based in Red Oak, Iowa (population: 5,568) have received over $460,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009. Ernst's father, Richard Culver, was given $14,705 in conservation payments and $23,690 in commodity subsidies by the federal government-with all but twelve dollars allocated for corn support. Richard's brother, Dallas Culver, benefited from $367,141 in federal agricultural aid, with over $250,000 geared toward corn subsidies. And the brothers' late grandfather Harold Culver received $57,479 from Washington-again, mostly corn subsidies-between 1995 and 2001. He passed away in January 2003. The Sentinel cross-referenced the Environmental Working Group farm subsidy database with open source information to verify the Culvers' interest in the Department of Agriculture's crop support program."
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Although she may have been a Lt Col in the military, she is more like Major Major from Joseph Heller's Catch-22? (my comment)
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A commenter on the article had this to say.
Jeff Moore · Top Commenter · Fort Wayne, Indiana
Our semi-monthly reading from the gospel according to Heller:
"Major Major’s father was a sober... long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism....His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done....
Major Major’s father was an outspoken champion of economy in government, provided it did not interfere with the sacred duty of government to pay farmers as much as they could get for all the alfalfa they produced that no one else wanted or for not producing any alfalfa at all. He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could."
It never gets old to me.
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These folks are begging to be exposed. It is not about robbing us, not only of our tax dollars, but also our democracy.
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