Comments on: Farm Bill Fails to Cultivate Reform

By: Deal and the farm bill — Peach Pundit

Deal and the farm bill — Peach Pundit — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:43:06 +0000

[...] but all the farm bill is a welfare program, both social and corporate, and it hurts consumers by driving up prices. The 2002 and 2008 farm bill are no different from one another. Deal apparently prefers the [...]

By: susan , ky

susan , ky — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:27:43 +0000

it upsets me when i hear john stossel talk about farmers like he knows what we do. i and my husband both have worked semi professional jobs 40 hours a week for 25 years to support our farming business. tobacco was $1.50/lb. in 1960,today it averages $1.64/lb.,corn has never been over $4.to $5./bushel. my point is that while farmers today are making no more than farmers did in the 1950's and 1960's, inflation has caused every aspect of farm production to go up. like many farmers we are getting tired of working 80 hrs./week,so people like john stossel can work maybe 40 and still be able to afford a steak less than $150.00. we are getting fed up with people thinking they know more about our business than we do

By: susan , ky

susan , ky — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:03:46 +0000

I and my husband are second generation farmers, with a son who wants to be the third, we have always told him that farming is a hard non rewarding life financially, but like many of us he feels it is his heritage. it is not the eindustrial farmers that take advantage of the subsidies,but the wealthy who buy property as an investment with no intention of ever farming the land. if you want to help this program devise a program that would only pay to people who utilize the acreage. there are wealthy here that never farm the acreage but are at the ascs office more than we are, this is what is unjust. they not only take from tax payers but they take my sons chances away of doing what he would think of as a previlage. this system has so much corruption in it good luck and gods speed trying to straighten it out

By: Saxby caught in a lie | Peach Pundit

Saxby caught in a lie | Peach Pundit — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:51:37 +0000

[...] supported the veto override of the pork-laden farm bill. This bill hurts Americans by jacking up prices at the grocery store. He supported the Gang of 10 plan to increase taxes by $30 billion on oil [...]

By: Then vs. Now - Right Mind

Then vs. Now - Right Mind — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:25:25 +0000

[...] The Heritage Foundation has an interesting table that compares commodity prices from 2002, when Congress passed the last farm bill, to today. [...]