Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trump's Farm Bailout Funds

[riversedge]

Source: Huff post



09/30/2018 11:39 pm ET
He’s dipping into Trump administration’s $12 billion program to subsidize farmers hurt by Trump’s trade war.




Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trump’s $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports.


In the spring, Grassley issued a statement saying that the Trump administration had a “responsibility to help” farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs set by China after Trump enacted tariffs against Chinese imports.

Bailout money isn’t being provided to other industries impacted by the trade war. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already cut some 7,800 checks worth a total of $25 million for farmers, many in the swing states of the Midwest that voted for Trump in 2016.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, argued against using a bailout program to mitigate a problem created by the administration, saying it would set a bad precedent by politicizing farm payments. Farmers “want their markets left intact and not screwed up by some policy,” he said earlier this year.

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While the bailout program has been pitched as aid to struggling farmers, Grassley’s net worth was listed in 2015 as $3.3 million, and Tester’s was $3.9 million that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. ...............................

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-applying-for-trumps-farm-bailout-funds_us_5bb15303e4b0343b3dc1591c

[Racerdog1]

1. Really?

The orange menace creates the problem, then tries to solve it at everyone else's expense. Fucking asshole!

[ck4829]

2. Huh, maybe if he didn't spend so much money on booze, women, and movies...

[Maxheader]

3. I would imagine cheetoz wasn't thinking very hard about..

medium size farms...Its bailout money was intended to bolster votes
and spread out $$$ mostly to the btos'....that's big time operators for
the non ag community out there..

[marble falls]

4. 750 acres is a small operation. Its around a half section, which is small beans to a lot ...

of family farming operation. Doesn't mean he isn't out for a pay day, though. He's a cynical self-aggrandizing piece of shit.

[DemoTex]

6. Small operation, granted. But ..

A section is nominally 1 square mile, or 640 acres. So Grassley's farmette is slightly over the acreage of a Jeffersonian Survey section.

[marble falls]

7. Oops, somehow 1296 came to my mind. After living in rural Nebraska and Iowa for over a ...

decade I have no excuse.

[Fred Sanders]

10. The secretly moved to Iowa Nunes dairy farm using undocumented immigrants, in the mean time,

is a huge operation...an illegal one!

[CrispyQ]

14. The GOP is nothing but a bunch of power-hungry, greedy, self-righteous, hypocritical bigots.

Their rich white man policies are taking our world to an ecological brink & they still stomp around the planet like they are better than the rest of us. I am appalled at family & acquaintances who still support this party. How anyone can think that these (mostly) men of so little integrity, honor, & legitimacy, are fit to lead, is beyond me. Their continued support has left a stain on them that isn't going away.

[marble falls]

18. I finally figured out where the 1296 comes from: the maximum area of a wire ...

glass light in a 3/4hr labeled fire window. Its been 20 years since I lived in agricultural Iowa and Nebraska. They say the mind goes first. And then the mind.

[olegramps]

13. It all depends where the acreage is located what are the crops.

[Maxheader]

19. This is very true..

We farmed up around salina kansaas...about 1000
acres gumbo and some lome..Back in the 50s
and sixtys that would be a slightly above average
size farm, for that area.
We raised wheat..only.

[olegramps]

21. If you are running cattle like a couple of my uncles it requires huge spreds.

The range land is so sparse that you require up to 15 acres to support one head and this is with supplemental feeding. You don't raise many dairy cows on those types of spreads. Also it takes a tremendous amount of water and the demand long ago put a strain on the aquafers that are being pumped dry.

[Maxheader]

23. As the worlds populations absorb more and more nonreplaceable

resources..I wish they could understand how we are violating
the basics you just quoted...Just as livestock require a certain
amount of grassland to survive...so do humans...

[olegramps]

26. Over population is a massive problem and wll only get worse.

I remember the experiment of the crowding of more and more rats together until they turned on each other to survive. There is a finite limit to just how many can be accommodated before you reach the tipping point. One of the most critical, I remember from college, was the strain but on water. Malthusian predictions were seen as being overly pessimistic as mankind developed increasing agriculture yields, but these gains seem to have reached a point of very small increases that will not sustain the growth. it is a world problem. We see countries like Japan's birth rate as being so severe as to jeopardize their future and others whose birthrate a threat to their very existence. It is a seemingly hopeless condition that is complicated by religion, tradition and outright ignorance. Perhaps the only solution is, sadly, massive world famine.

[jmowreader]

15. 750 acres is a little over a section

A section is 640 acres, or one square mile.

[Ohiogal]

5. I would expect this from a disgusting old turd like Grassley

But am a bit disappointed in Tester.

[jmowreader]

16. The only person in Congress with any right to that money is Tester

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/montana-organic-farmer-jon-tester-elected-united-states-senate

Tester is the only working farmer in Congress. He grows organic grain over 1400 acres, and returns to Montana each weekend to work the farm.

The rest of them are gentleman farmers at best, but Tester is the real deal.

[olegramps]

22. It is a sight to see when they harvest. Combines lined up five to ten across working day and night.

[ck4829]

25. Definitely up his alley

[rgbecker]

8. 750 acre farm in Iowa is worth about 6 million....Hard to believe

Grassley can only come up with 3.3 million net worth. I hope he reports how much he got.

[NCjack]

9. There needs to a law: every farm that takes this handout

moves to the top of ICE's list for a raid.

[Bayard]

11. The big commercial farms are no doubt applying too

Like Boswell in Calif. They own everything.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Well, whaddaya know... repubs like socialism when it benefits themselves.

Well, whaddaya know... repubs like socialism when it benefits themselves.

[Yavin4]

17. Shouldn't he have to submit to drug tests before he can get govt money? n/t

[SunSeeker]

20. K & R for exposure.

[ck4829]

24. Kick