“On a bipartisan basis, the House rejected a bad bill that failed farmers and working families,” said Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Republicans wrote a cruel, destructive Farm Bill that abandoned farmers and producers amid plummeting farm prices and the self-inflicted damage of President Trump’s trade brinkmanship.”
Shorten the message to “GOP fails farmers and working families” and you might have a decent campaign message
“…a bill that combines stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in GOP-leaning farm country.”
When do we get a bill that combines work requirements and drug-testing for farmers paid not to grow crops in GOP-leaning opioid country?
Whaddayaknow!! Two wrongs can make a right!!
Here’s a thought… have the GOP members of the House who hate food stamps and welfare be required to use food stamps for their groceries, no eating in fancy restaurants, no lunch in the Capitol cafeteria. This would be for them to learn what people in poverty go thru and how they feel degraded. Require the members on food stamps to show each week what they had accomplished in their jobs as members. Have them prove their identity each time they go to a grocery store. Have them use public transportation to get to their store and to their place of employment. No fancy limos allowed.
I know I know…my fantasy won;t happen… but it’s a thought.
Republicans, you need to vote out every one of those defectors.
House Rejects GOP Food And Farm Bill Amid Conservatives’ Immigration Revolt
“Mr. Speaker, the conservatives are revolting!”
“They sure are.”
Finally something we can agree on.
But I though the farm belt wanted to Make America Great Again by electing Donnie?
WTF happened, Farm Belt?
Where’s your Orange Messiah, Now?
As far as I am concerned, Paul Ryan cannot be gone soon enough. He’s the hypocrite’s hypocrite.
And don’t forget they Cannot buy toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, Cleaning supplies, shampoo, soap, laundry supplies, light bulbs, etc. and the majority of people run out of their benefits by the 21st of the month. Try going hungry for even 1 day much less the rest of the month.
I’m currently on full disability. What with the free room from my family, I get $500/month SSI + $92/month SNAP.
If I can figure out how to make $65/month, I’ll lose $13 in SNAP, netting $42.
For every $2 above $56, i’ll lose $1 from SSI, and 20% of my SNAP will be deducted from the net which works out to a 60% reduction of my earned income for every $2 I take home.
This is what conservatives consider incentive to work. Mind you, they consider a billionaire getting taxed that way a DISincentive, but consider it a fair way of doing things for poor people.
“You judge each piece of legislation on its own,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. “You don’t hold one thing hostage for something that’s totally different and has nothing to do with it. I would say that’s a mistake in my view.”
Shorter whine: No hostage taking GOP buds, only for those libs!
As a flaming liberal I think the Farm Bill is the worst kind of Socialism out there, at least the “farm” part of it. Why SNAP is lumped in along with the rest is bothersome, and the forced marriage of price supports for corporate farming and the safety net for food security has always been a lousy one.
I’d love to see the SNAP program administered separately from the wasteful farm spending, and see just how bootstrappy our rural Trump-loving red staters are without all that anti-free market Socialism providing their income. I’d love to see the comparative dollar amounts received by the average farm bill payee versus the average SNAP value received by families.