Tea Party candidate taken behind the woodshed by an old man asking a simple question
June 21, 2014 at 11:21 am
(June 21, 2014 at 1:37 am)Rhythm Wrote: Food stamps and wic are, technically, farm subsidies, btw Cross. They are also effective farm subsidies..in addition to being technically included in the bill. That's why you can have this much of that product, but not an ounce of this, etc. Basically the gov buying commodities and then distributing them amongst the populace masquerading as assistance for the poor..when it is in fact, assistance for the massively rich ag sector. Even more specifically, it is corporate assistance for those entities which posess equipment capable of breaking down raw agricultural commodities into it;s constituent parts and then reassembling them as processed "food".(Bolding mine)
-This is why chicken nuggets and french fries are so popular among the wic/fs subset. They are a great use of the machinery and raw materials for the producer, and due to stealth subsidy they are also the best mass-per-dollar wic/fs can buy. It's a beautiful little closed loop eh?
-takes a bow-
You're absolutely right. This is what rubs my ass raw. There is no necessary connection between food stamps and the farm subsidy bills. We could easily separate the two. The reason food stamps get rolled up into the farm bills is nothing other than to co-opt legislators who might otherwise vote against handouts to the ag sector by forcing them to choose between corporate welfare for big agri-business and cutting off assistance to the poor.
