Today the poor in America lost another battle...The Republicans Gamesmanship wins the day....
Today the US House of Representatives cut $8B from the Food Stamp program in exchange for Republicans agreeing to pass the Farm Bill. 89 Democrats voted for this cut. The poor in this country are suffering and now will suffer even more. There has to be a way of getting both, without hurting so many people. It is way past the time the we as Americans have to stop choosing from the lesser of the two evils. Republicans want the poor to make the choices....food or prescription drugs? And when our lawmaker make their choices it's either the poor or the rich?
In my opinion, passing the farm bill was a good thing in some ways and bad in others. Subsides that were passed in the farm bill not only help North Carolina farmers who work hard and grow great crops, but it also subsides Monsanto as well, and they are the arch enemy to the independent farmer. Monsanto can grow four times on a single acre than an independent farmer, because of the genetically alter seeds Monsanto develops and by using growth hormones on the plants to make them grow faster and yield more. Organic foods which are so much better for you are now all but doomed.
So can you see what really happened here...we lost the on both fronts in the end...we lost $8B from a program that really could not afford it....that helps the poor, and we lost because now we feed the beast that will eventually push out the independent farmer...
Our Democratic Representatives cannot continue to be on a loose/loose proposition...we have to be better than that.
Marshall Adame would be tougher on these types of negations. We can find ways to do both and he is the Candidate that can find these alternative solutions...
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