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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout Joni Ernst and her government subsidies...
To be be clear, I'm not defending Joni and her folksy, hypocritical diatribe. Nor the complex and often dysfunctional farm subsidy system.However, FYI
-Fellow Iowa GOP Senator Charles Grassley received payments totaling $327,246 from 1995 through 2012
-Former Iowa Democratic Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack received payments totaling $82,874 from 1995 through 2012.
-Even Carter Farms (Jimmy Carter) received payments totaling $272,288 from 1995 through 2012.
-Etc.
Environmental Working Group's 2013 update of its Farm Subsidy Database shows that 15 members of Congress or their spouses benefitted from a total of $237,921 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy payments last year. According to EWG's analysis of data derived from USDA records, members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate who received farm subsidies in 2012 were: http://www.ewg.org/release/members-congress-received-238k-farm-subsidies
Want to find out who in your neck of the woods is getting farm subsidies? Here ya go: http://farm.ewg.org/index.php?_ga=1.160719668.860104103.1422135244
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About Joni Ernst and her government subsidies... (Original Post)
progressoid
Jan 2015
OP
Except Dems aren't voting for deep cuts in welfare for working poor and their families
blm
Jan 2015
#1
And Dems don't campaign on the platform all government, except the military, is bad.
Shrike47
Jan 2015
#4
blm
(113,057 posts)1. Except Dems aren't voting for deep cuts in welfare for working poor and their families
while TeaParty Republicans like Joni have been targeting social programs that serve the poor, and use the imagery of undeserving welfare recipients to appeal to the TeaParty base.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)3. DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)2. Did the dem pols try to cutoff the poor?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)4. And Dems don't campaign on the platform all government, except the military, is bad.
The problem for Ms. Ernst is that she says one thing and does another.
blm
(113,057 posts)5. Simple enough.
Odd that it even needs to be said, imo.