Bush pissing off farmers

[eauclaireliberal]

Farmers Shaken by Bush's Subsidy Plan

>>>LIVE OAK, Calif. (AP) - Rice grower Frank Rehermann contemplates his 33rd spring planting while worrying about the lowest crop prices he has ever seen. And not only that, he is hearing troubling things from the federal government, his silent partner on 900 acres about 60 miles north of Sacramento.

President Bush, in his budget plan released Monday, is proposing to cut farm subsidies by 5 percent this year, cap them at $250,000 per farm and reduce overall spending by about one-third over across the next decade.

``I expect when it's all said and done the rice industry will sustain cuts. The question is how much?'' said Rehermann, who along with 5,300 other rice growers in Northern California received $260 million in federal crop subsidies in 2003.

In many farm states that helped re-elect Bush in November after never hearing any campaign talk about cutting their payments, there is a sense of betrayal.

``I'm not happy. I voted for George Bush,'' said cotton grower John Rife of Ferriday, La.<<<

well guess what, genius: you have just been assfucked by a chimpanzee. Deal with it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. JUST farmers?

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Yes, sad to say...

That Chimpy and his bunch of mad men and women spent the last four years screwing everyone who didn't vote for him. Looks like he will spend the rest of the time screwing everyone who voted for him.

I guess this is what they get for voting for such a "moral" man.

[whistle]

3. Bush is not pissing off the rich farmers and the corporate farming

...operations, they love his programs. The family farms will all be gone by the time Bush finishes.

[BattyDem]

4. Too bad!

The "red" voters didn't give a damn when Bush* pissed all over women, minorities, gays, non-Christians and TWO countries full of innocent people. They didn't care because it didn't affect them. Well, guess what .. it's their turn to be affected by the Chimp's "compassionate conservative" policies.

A note to all Bush voters: We warned you ... but you ignored us, you laughed at us and you called us unpatriotic. Screw you! Payback's a bitch, huh?

[radar]

5. Is that pi$$ing off or pi$$ing on?

Or, maybe it's that trickle down theory hitting them - kinda resembles a tinkle.

[libodem]

6. Molly Ivins had a very interesting take on the farm subsidies

three Fourths of federal crop subsidies go to the wealthiest 10 percent of agricultural businesses. This is not a red-state blue-state issue. Two thirds of American farms those run by families and small operators--do not qualify for subsidies at all. For years, agribusiness has successfully hidden behind the sacred shield of"the family farmer," who is still getting screwed. It's a monumental rip-off, made worse by a loophole that has allowed some huge agribusiness firms to collect millions of dollars a year by disguising them selves as several corporations. Farm conservation programs make much more sense and do benefit family farmers. She thinks putting a lower cap on farm subsidies is the only good thing to come out of an otherwise rotten, phony, fake, sham of a document this budget is. I didn't know that, I figured he was pulling the rug the rest of the way out from under the family farm. Probably reverse psychology...we'll squawk and the big corporate farms will get to keep their welfare... nastily enough I'd hoped it would wake up the rich republican farmers around here that 'their guy' is a real jerk wad.

[applegrove]

7. Good for the poor on the planet - wake up time for Bush's base!

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