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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (4729)	3/2/2004 12:36:25 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 81568

Who cares who voted against it on the democratic side? It went through in a REPUBLICAN controlled congress. Status quo for this group of looters. If you are a democrat, and you know that Bush and his band of merry men are out to raid the budget (because they feel it is overfunded and this is part of the republican agenda to get the money before it goes to the poor or schools)- then you'd be stupid not to try to take what you can for your state. But that doesn't make it right. The 2002 farm bill can be best described as agribusiness welfare. The federal crop subsidies will go not to farmers who resemble John Steinbeck's Joad family, but to rich recipients, such as fourteen members of the Congress that crafted the law; wealthy American corporations like Westvaco (a paper products conglomerate), Chevron, and the John Hancock Insurance Company; and top Time-Warner entertainment executive Ted Turner, ABC correspondent San Donaldson, and billionaire David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank.(3) Most family farms will get nothing but a tax bill. The farm bill only further tilts the playing field against them.(4) foodfirst.org