Tea Parties divided over one of their candidates who receives farm subsidies

[ck4829]

But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect tea party candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from a western Tennessee hamlet, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to smaller government and lower taxes.

The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year.

Some tea party activists say Fincher, a Republican candidate in Tennessee's 8th Congressional District, isn't “pure” enough to deserve the backing of a movement built on the idea that government must spend less. But others have pledged their support, highlighting a division over what constitutes orthodoxy in the amorphous cause — and who gets to decide.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6942337.html

[gratuitous]

1. Yes, the e-e-e-e-vil government subsidies

Unless, of course, it's going into their pockets. This is going to be some epic needle threading, as the Tea Baggers try to justify their "revenue sharing" while explaining why everyone else's is unnecessary.

[miscsoc]

3. it's even worse than that

most of the teabaggers probably don't benefit from these business handouts at all, most of them are probably pretty working class. They are just totally brainwashed.

[miscsoc]

2. the fact that he has support in the tea party movement

puts paid to the notion that they are really motivated by opposition to government spending.

i have some grudging respect to the paultard types who oppose this guy - they are idiots but at least principled - but they are bound to lose.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Quite the dilemma!

Gonna take a whole mess o'cogitatin' to resolve this one, boy howdy! Maybe even a dash o'doublethink to boot. Don't mind the smell of burnt rubber a-billowin' out from their ears; that's just part of their normal thinkin' processes.

[sfwriter]

5. He isn't pure enough...

say the slobs on Medicare, SSI and unemployment.

Those Tea Partiers are the best. Always good for a chuckle.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #2 n/t

[demosincebirth]

7. Someone ought to publish all those who receive Farm Subsidies. Maybe

that'll shake out a few hypocrites.

[RandomThoughts]

9. Found a couple articles on it, but did not fact check them.

Trying to find article one of them is not listed in history folder. And they are not in my most recent history, even though I just opened and closed the article. LOL.


Found the article, does anyone know why Washington Post article does not get its web page stored in Most Recent History in Internet Explorer?

Washington Post, people not farming get farm subsidies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html


Heritage Foundation article.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/06/How-Farm-Subsidies-Harm-Taxpayers-Consumers-and-Farmers-Too

[ellie]

10. Wow! How do I become a non-farming farmer?

[XemaSab]

12. I would love to know if Wally Herger gets subsidies

:)

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Shit, I want 200K every year.

He can send it to me. :)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. Well, that didn't take long. (n/t)