Comments about ‘In our opinion: Farm bill mess’

The farm bill may be a mess but where do you get the idea farmers make 100 thousand a year. I know a lot of farmers from here in Nebraska and I know they don't make that much.

The corruptions from the farm subsidizing lobby and consequential policies are perfect examples of the inevitable results of governmental market distortions (perversions really).

The most powerful lobbies in D.C. are: Pharma, military/industrial, and agricultural.

In that order.

What makes agricultural particularly powerful though is that they represent "swing" states. NEITHER Dems. or Repubs. dare to upset them.

BTW- The "Regular" american lobby is way at the bottom of the list.

And attached to the Farm Bill is an amendment that threatens to destroy America's national parks and monuments. Anyone who cares about those precious places needs to get busy and learn about H.R. 4089 could open up many areas of the National Park System to hunting, trapping, and recreational shooting. Most national park sites are closed to such activities in the interests of public safety, visitor enjoyment and resource protection. The House defeated an amendment to the bill that would have specifically excluded all the 397 units of the National Park System from these activities, which are already legal and appropriate on millions of acres of other public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

It's disguised with a deceptive and fine sounding name. Something like the "Hunting Heritage Amendment."

Welfare farmers, welfare ranchers. They probably all vote republican.