Farming related:

Farming related:

Yes, what's happening with the Farm Bill in the House of Representative is a moral disaster A $9 billion new subsidy that is paid for by cutting two million families off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program? In the middle of an ongoing recession and with eight percent unemployment? . But, morality aside, which is pretty much the way we're running the economy as a whole these days, this doesn't even make a lick of pragmatic sense. Keep people fed and you keep people employed. The money from the SNAP program doesn't go into a vault in the Caymans; practically all of it goes right back into the economy, where it helps keep people employed in grocery stores and sundry shops. (There is a similar argument to be made about how counterproductive it is to be slashing unemployment benefits, and state payrolls, in a recession, as though the money from a government salary doesn't count somehow.) And it's not just America that seems enthralled, and then crippled, by this nonsense.

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