Let’s take away his food and then he can tell us whether it’s important.
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I saw today on Reuters that Congress is getting closer to finalizing the Farm Bill, and maybe in this wingnut’s addled mind he’s trying to whip up votes.
But it seems like a strange tactic at a time when farm bankruptcies have doubled since last year, the Chinese market for soybeans – our top agricultural export to that country – is shut down, commodity prices are falling, crops are rotting in the fields, dairy farmers are losing the Mexico market over tariffs, romaine lettuce has been pulled from the shelves as a result of last year’s deregulations, and the migrant farm workforce has been decimated by the immigration debacle.
But go ahead and make this about libtard demands for “free stuff,” Congressman.
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Hey he lives on a cattle farm (why is it not a ranch, yes this is bugging me). Take away his cattle too, let him hunt and gather for him and his families sustenance.
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Well, Rep. Massie, let’s do a little experiment - and not a thought experiment but a real experiment: Let’s put you in a cell, so we can monitor you, and deprive you of food. Under that circumstance, how long do you think it will take - how hungry will you have to get? - before you realize that food, as a necessity for survival, is, in fact, a right?
In other words, Rep. Massie, in any modern society, the things without which one cannot survive - including, but not limited to, water, food, shelter, education, and healthcare - are all rights. That is, among other reasons, why people form governments and societies: to ensure and extend survival.
So the answer to your question is: Yes, food is a right.
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Vats.
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Seems to me that Food Stamps are already a guaranteed benefit for all those who, through whatever misfortune of life, qualify. We are well aware of “bootstrappers” indignant rejection of SNAP and their efforts to almost literally pluck food off the forks of poor babies.
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Soon the food wars and water wars will start because of droughts and crop failures due to global warming.
We’ll soon learn who has rights to food and water.
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The answer to rhetorical bullshit like this is, “let’s hear you’re sales pitch if that’s what you want to do.”
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I hope that Deplorable-ism is more of a historical footnote 170 years from now, than Know-Nothingism is today.
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That man has guns and crossbows.
That cattle ranch is saving folks from having to watch a Kentuckian ‘Waco’.
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Those guys really need to work on their admissions process. I mean, seriously, with a 15-to-1 acceptance ratio, you’d think they’d have enough applicants that they could weed out ethical retards like Massie.
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We once had legislators of both parties who were concerned about ameliorating hunger. This Massie rube ought to read the farm bill.
https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/mcgovern-dole-food-education-program
“The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program helps support education, child development and food security in low-income, food-deficit countries around the globe. The program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities, as well as financial and technical assistance, to support school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects.”
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Fundamentalist xtian tax free churches everywhere.
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Tax the churches.
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Cold-hearted creature, positively Dickensian. “Are there no workhouses?!”
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Here’s a question for Mr. Massie:
If the First Amendment’s guarantee of Freedom of Religion is why churches are tax-free, then why doesn’t the First Amendment’s guarantee of Freedom of the Press grant tax-free status to newspapers? And why aren’t you out there fighting to make publishing houses tax-free as adamantly as you fight to protect tax-free status for houses of worship?
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I don’t know why he calls it a farm instead of a ranch either, but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that it has something to do with creative accounting.
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The little punk ass lives in a nice place Off the Grid, but no such things for everyone else!
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A lot of people think Reghugliklans hate humanity. That’s not exactly true. They don’t hate everybody. No, not at all. They only hate the non-political-donor class.
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Next time we “have” to reduce expenses in order to balance the budget and pay for tax cuts, could we just reduce the salary and benefit of these fools?
Maybe minimum wage and they have to punch in a time clock in their D.C.office?
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