Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/04/congress-passes-bill-cutting-farmer-payments-and-snap-benefits/



Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 16:18 EST

The US Congress passed a massive, long-overdue bill Tuesday that overhauls agriculture policy, including halting direct payments to farmers.

The five-year $956.4 billion measure, which also reforms the food stamp program for the poor to save $8 billion, marks a rare point of cooperation among bitterly divided lawmakers.

It passed the Senate 68-32, with broad bipartisan support after easily clearing the House of Representatives last week.

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“We’ve arrived at a farm bill that works for all of America,” a relieved Senator Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee who helped broker the deal with House Republicans, said moments before the vote.



unhappycamper comment: “We’ve arrived at a farm bill that works for all of America” ... Really? More hunger is more free?

[liberal N proud]

1. It works for their America

The wealth America will do fine while the poorer America will starve.

I still bet my cousin who farms in Iowa will get his supplements.