Message #37140

[Kilika]

As the debate rolls on, there will be no impact on food stamps, which account for about 75 percent of farm bill spending, and crop insurance, now the largest part of the safety net for farmers.

Both programs are permanently authorized and would stay in operation if the current law is allowed to lapse, funded via annual appropriations bills.

And there you go! Stuff like that is why this country is financially in trouble. Who in their right mind would make such things permanent? Thieves.

What happen to "free enterprise"? If a farmer cannot make it, they need to get out of the farming business.

It's all about "commercial" farming anyway. It props up larger farms and agri-business. Doesn't have a single thing to do with the family farm, otherwise, with all that free federal cash, no family farm should be failing and foreclosing, but they are, while corporate farms are doing just fine.

The "key to ending the role of government in agriculture once and for all," James said, would be repeal of the 1949 "permanent" farm law.

I agree. Never should have been passed in the first place.

But if they tried that, the corporate farm lobby would lose their minds, payments under the table would stop, and politicians will have none of that!

Policy won't change a wicked heart. Those people need to repent.