Farm Bill "Compromise" Deadline Friday 12/13/2013 Will FoodStamps Get Cut?

dont hold ur breath - not with th libs runnin the show...
:GOM-wishcrap:

If the farmer sets his own price, then he(or she) could charge 20 cents more per gallon and sell a superior product. I'd gladly pay a little more for better tasting milk. In the free market, that's allowed. In a government controlled market place, that's against the law.

word is folks....that CONgress is tryn to pass a 5 yr 'compromise deal' & but the problems cuttn the foodstamp program - house GOP wants a 40bil cut but senate wants 4bil cut - the dem housetards wanna propose just a trimmer to match senate proposal...not enuff boehner says. the two sides're supposed to have a final compromise bill on the house floor by tomorrow/dec 13 but the deadline could be pushed into next year as its already + a year behind schedule. ***summa the dems have been considering voting against any compromise farm bill in order to kill the bill. if that happens, FS would continue to be funded at current benefit. and boehner could very well play the "haserts card" on any 'rejected compromise'.




BLOATED FARM SUBSIDIES WILL THE 2013 FARM BILL REALLY CUT THE FAT? [link to mercatus.org]


House Speaker Boehner blames Democrats for tardy U.S. farm bill
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday accused Senate Democrats of blocking the path to a new U.S. farm bill that would cut food stamp benefits for the poor and boost crop insurance coverage for farmers. [link to www.cnbc.com]



Published: December 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Prospects for passage of a new farm bill before the end of the year appear dim, with just a week left before Congress adjourns for the holidays, although lawmakers insisted they were close to a deal. The current measure expires at the end of the month. Members of the House and Senate have been meeting to reconcile their different versions of a new bill, and they agree on many things, including expanding crop insurance for farmers. But they remain far apart on issues like cuts to the food stamp program. A House proposal would cut about $40 billion from the program, while a Senate version would trim roughly $4.5 billion, mainly by making administrative changes.
more here [link to www.nytimes.com]


Published: December 10, 2013
Political Fight on Farm Aid and Food Stamps Hits Home in the Delta
BELZONI, Miss. — Thomas Bond, a cotton grower whose onetime 8,500-acre partnership of farms received $4 million in federal subsidies in the last seven years, thinks that many residents in the surrounding Mississippi Delta need food stamps. But he says the program is too big and rife with fraud. “There are a lot of people on food stamps who shouldn’t be,” Mr. Bond said in a recent interview at the Yazoo Country Club. “They could be working, but don’t.”
more here [link to www.nytimes.com]

Published: December 3, 2013
WASHINGTON — Congress could enact a new U.S. farm law that cuts food stamps for the poor and expands federally subsidized crop insurance in January if negotiators soon break a deadlock, the lawmaker overseeing the negotiations said on Tuesday. Cuts in food stamps are the paramount issue for the farm bill, which is more than a year overdue. Conservative Republicans want the largest cuts in a generation, $40 billion over 10 years. House Democrats solidly oppose any cuts. The sides continue to struggle for a compromise.

The food stamp fight has repeatedly slowed work on the five-year, $500 billion bill, which has also endured the first-ever defeat of a farm bill in the House of Representatives. Deep divisions also remain over crop subsidies and dairy reform, other lines of dispute that must be resolved. With time running out in 2013, Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, who chairs the House-Senate negotiations, admitted for the first time that the farm bill may not be ready for a vote before year-end, even though a broad framework might be hammered out this month.
more here [link to www.nytimes.com]



Farm Bill 2013 Senate Conferees
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have you tasted the milk of late? its nasty - theyre was talk of the plants adding aspartame to it - but i dont buy it i get it from the amish farms

'BLOATED FARM SUBSIDIES'...perfect description for the SNAP Card holders I see shopping!

dont hold ur breath - not with th libs runnin the show...
:GOM-wishcrap:

My opinion as a real farmer. Dump farm bill 100%. It is high time for farmers to grow a pair, and stand on their own two feet. With that happening, there would be plenty of money to fund food stamps, and savings to the budget along with that. There is not a business in America that enjoys more subsidization than farming, and currently farming is in a boom time. Stop the insanity, and stop running up debt.

"they" will never stop feeding the herd.
at least not as long as they still need their votes.

Remove the illegals and send them back and instantly you will see applicants drop!. 22 million illegals X $3-700.00 a month! do the math!. Plus you will have jobs for americans to go back to work instead of being on foodstamps. This is the problem that no one wants to talk about that is the root cause of the foodstamps explosion!.

have you tasted the milk of late? its nasty - theyre was talk of the plants adding aspartame to it - but i dont buy it i get it from the amish farms

Cut foods stamps by 100%! The soup kitchens did a lot better job of actually feeding people, and they did it for a small fraction of the cost. The problem is that it's gonna' be so hard to turn a bowl of soup into your next drug fix. We could easily feed everybody in America for a lot less than the snap program costs. Farm subsidies could be cut dramatically too. A lot of farmers are keeping fields fallow, and collecting government money for growing nothing. Most of the farm subsidies are out-dated and should be cut.

I have yet to see an epidemic of skinny in this country, which tells me SNAP should be cut.

I have yet to see an epidemic of skinny in this country, which tells me SNAP should be cut.

Of all the things that could be cut food will be the last.
Hunger will cause an overthrow of the system , and the people in charge know this.

this'll for sure toss a wrench in the 15hr mcnasty wages bc if snap gets cut no one'll be swipin for MCpinkslime burgers

And then there's Boehner, out whining about how conservative groups have lost all credibility because they want to trim deficits and shrink government. As long as he's part of the negotiations, we can expect more bloat, and more free stuff for the takers.