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Flash Forward March 2, 2014 : States Make End Run Around Food Stamp Cuts . Connecticut and New York have found a way around federal budget cuts that played a central role in the massive farm bill passed this month: bump up home heating assistance a few million bucks in return for preserving more than a half-billion dollars in food stamp benefits. The moves by Connecticut Gov
Tweet Taking the sympathetic documentary Mitt at face value, it shows a patriarchal culture at its very best. The women in these men’s lives are loved and respected, and their counsel taken as seriously as the men’s, but they’re not the deciders.
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Why are Taxpayers Subsidizing Big Mac Buyers? A friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous claims the following: Walmart employees (as a group) are often the biggest recipients of federal and state aid within each state. McDonalds employees are up there as well
Next consider House passes farm bill, crop subsidies preserved . After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent to the Senate Wednesday an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill containing a small cut in food stamps and preserving most crop subsidies. The measure, which the House approved 251-166, had solid backing from the Republican leadership team, even though it makes smaller cuts to food stamps than they would have liked.
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Tweet Well, perhaps off topic, but in the US approval of positions for science and science policy agencies often get tied up in the Senate so Eli is not exactly crying about Lucy getting kicked in the head yesterday. Still, as many have pointed out that while the Republicans were filibustering an awful lot of people, there is some value to it, and sometimes (see Bork, Robert who, btw was not filibustered but rather defeated in a straight vote, or, perhaps more recently Miguel Estrada who was) there is a value to it. So Eli has a modest proposal, which, as all of Eli’s simple and modest proposals, will be ignored. OTOH, what are blogs for. Give the minority leader a small number of cards to play, say four or five per year. When the minority leader decides it is important enough, why yes, that appointment does not come to a vote if there are forty supporters or more. Since such things are more often tactical than strategic, if say within a month the situation is resolved, the card is returned ADDITIONAL THUMB SUCKING: Curious bunnies inquire why a few Republican Senators on the business side of the party did not break away, eliminating the log jam, as happened in 2005 with the business side of the Democratic Party joining with Republicans to make filibusters much harder to do for the Dems. The answer is simple. The business wing Senators WANTED Reid and the Democrats to eliminate the filibuster. The radicals on the right WANT government to fail (what that means perhaps tonight). The left wing of the Democratic Party (which actually is not so radical) and even the far out left do not. That means that any Republican business wing Senators who break filibusters would be attacked and primaried from the right. Eliminating that issue eliminates or limits the treat. Every damn judge or third level bureaucrat approved does not become a club to be used against them