Comments about ‘What others say: Eliminate subsidies’

Welfare is debilitating and causes dependency. Just look at America's corn farmers if you need proof.

Read Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) report last year on "government welfare for the rich." Fixing these kinds of subsidies for successful and profitable people, should be easy pickings. If the conservatives/Republicans fix these kinds of abuses, then I'll start taking them seriously. Otherwise, I will stick with my observation that they are not about cutting spending, but about spending for their pet constituencies. They wouldn't even pass a tax reform measure to get the wealthy to pay taxes at even the same level as the hired help. Folks, who are they serving? It isn't us?

By the way, has Rob Bishop consistently voted or otherwise worked to end subsidies to the oil companies? Has he supported rules on commodity trading that is pushing up oil prices? Or is he just huffing and puffing and doing the same as his Republican colleagues? I would like to know.

Republican solution for unemployment by Herbert Hoover: Workfare not Welfare for poor and no handouts for the rich?

OUR DRIVE for increase in construction and improvement work to take up unemployment is showing most encouraging results, and it looks as if the work undertaken will be larger for 1930 than for 1929.

The Department of Commerce now has complete returns from the Governors of 16 States covering public works to be undertaken in 1930 by the State, municipal, and county authorities. They have partial returns from 13 more States. The total so far reported, and including the Federal Government is about $1,550 million, and in nearly all cases larger than for 1929. The surveys are coming in daily, and should be completed by mid-January.

The preliminary estimate of the railways for construction and betterments for 1930 was $1,050 million, and for the public utilities $2,100 million, including the telephones. The total of these items so far is $4,700 million. This does not include the balance of the State, municipal, and county work, nor the building construction, nor the industrial and factory improvements, which latter are now under survey by the special business committee.

Three cheers, yea and a hoop-de-do for Deseret News Publishing Company and the San Jose Mercury News, for “Eliminate subsidies”.

Even conservatives are for ending “government favoritism in business”.

Also end sugar, cotton, and wool subsidies. they are nothing but welfare for the rich. politicans are hesitant to end subsidies due to the huge amount of campaign contributions the millionaire/billionare farmers/corporatiosn donate.

Yes, Republicans need to stop acting like Democrats and eliminate subsidies for everyone and everything. That way, maybe all the billions and billions of children the San Jose Mercury claims are practically starving in America will someday finally get not just one meal paid by the taxpayer, but three meals a day paid for by responsible parents that work, and don't depend on a bureaucrat to pull up their pants, tie their shoes, demand they look both ways before crossing the street, and feed their children.