farm programs do NOT bailout farmers.

[Red Steele]

Is that a new Burns documentary, or one from a few years ago? I remember watching part of one, that dealt with FDR, Eleanor, and Lucy Mercer. That Lucy really was a good looking woman, and probably caused FDR more anguish than most men go through.

I guess I am guilty of being the main dip**bleep**e to encourage the pigeons to crap on TR's statue,, but the guy just seems to me such a fraud to me the more I learn about him, and try to objectively think about him. You should try that sometime. Objective thinking.

[BA Deere]

Oh yeah, who wrote the farmbill...it`s rewritten every 5 years.     Here`s some CORPORATIONS that lobbied and influenced the farmbill

http://thegazette.com/article/20140731/ARTICLE/140739946 

Farmers sure the hell never wrote it...the only farmer in the senate, Chuck Grassley Republican voted against the damned thing.   Harkin voted for the bloated damned thing, Obama lobbied and ultimately signed the damned thing.

And oh, I took the test and I`m 66% traditionalist and 66% progressive...here`s the results.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/are_you_a_secular_progressive_or_a_traditiona  

[Shaggy98]

Main thing cash for klunkers did was tick Dave Ramsey off.

[schnurrbart]

So if you don't sign up for it, your money goes to someone else. Really? I think it is called personal responsibility. You don't believe in it, you don't like it, then stand for something. Don't take it. Tell your rep to vote NO.

[schnurrbart]

Baa bwa, don't you ever get tired of double talking you way along the highway of life? What is the welfare for if not to help you over the lumps that is farming? You hide your name and location which is rather cowardly.

[JacobMcCandless]

Is this Stamp Farm, by any chance, a project of the Pennsylvania state legislature?

[r3020]

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@Shaggy98 wrote:
Main thing cash for klunkers did was tick Dave Ramsey off.

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Dave should be required reading for every high school student.

[r3020]

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@schnurrbart wrote:
So if you don't sign up for it, your money goes to someone else. Really? I think it is called personal responsibility. You don't believe in it, you don't like it, then stand for something. Don't take it. Tell your rep to vote NO.

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If I didn't have to fund the program I would opt out. If you don't like me in the program don't pay taxes.

[BA Deere]

That`s easy to say from your Lazy-Boy chair, Hobby.   When, it the case of corn it drops from $7 to $3 in one year, with no subsequent drop in the costs of raising that crop...I certainly wouldn`t fault anyone just watching in slow motion as their "car is about to crash into a tree".

To be competitive in farming, a person had to bid against other farmers that were caught up in "tulip mania" because their taste once of $8 corn had them thristy for $10 corn and that is how they bid.  A person bidding at a sensible idea that "corn may drop to $5" simply wouldn`t get or keep the farm that they were renting, their $400,000 in machinery would just sit...depreciating..requiring payments be made with half or 1/3 the acres needed to justify it. 

Do not make the assumption that I am in that perdicament, I am only relaying my empathy for them and only but the Grace of God, I am not in their shoes.

[BA Deere]

By having an affordable crop insurance program, I figure that 10 million acres extra acres of corn is planted on fringe cornbelt acres that really should be in cows that would be raising $2.30/lb feeder cattle, that is what that land was created by God for.  

Now that 10 million EXTRA acres of corn DEPRESSES the ENTIRE corn market by at least $1 per bushel.  If I didn`t sign up for insurance that I have rarely used, I would STILL have the same CHEAP corn market that everyone else has. 

That government mutilation of our markets should be made up to us in some way.