Conservative Republicans have turned the farm bill -- normally a bipartisan grotesquerie of agribusiness subsidies and excess -- from legislation to identity politics. They wanted to make a statement, even though they knew it couldn't survive the Senate or the White House veto. They passed it anyway -- without one Democratic vote -- to proclaim this is who we are.
Who are they? They just passed a farm bill that included about $195 billion in subsidies to "farmers" (read: agribusiness) over 10 years, while eliminating food stamps and nutrition programs from the bill as " extraneous."
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Republicans Nix Food Stamps Because Starving People is Their Brand | Alternet
Republicans Nix Food Stamps Because Starving People is Their Brand | Alternet
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