{"id":57737,"date":"2024-12-22T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57737"},"modified":"2024-12-22T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:08:30","slug":"about-that-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57737","title":{"rendered":"About That Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about the ‘Farm Bill.’ Evidently the Farm Bill is not about farms–it’s about food stamps.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The bulk of the Farm Bill is funding for food stamps, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Thursday during an interview on Breitbart News Daily<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Johnson walked through some of the issues with the original 1,537-page continuing resolution (CR) negotiated by Speaker Johnson, which is full of pork. One of the stumbling blocks for some is the inclusion of the Farm Bill in the spending deal, but the senator said it is not what it seems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a food stamp bill,\u201d Johnson revealed. \u201c80 percent of the Farm Bill is funding for food stamps, and Obama dramatically increased eligibility.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt used to be in prosperous times, maybe 6 percent of the population was on food stamps. Then [the] recessions, go up to 12 [percent] 13 [percent], pretty well stuck at that higher limit nowadays, because we pay people not to work,\u201d Johnson said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be honest, we pay people not to work,\u201d he said, noting that the U.S. welfare program is very generous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t pay taxes on them [welfare benefits]. We have a huge transfer of wealth from working Americans to people who don\u2019t work. And we\u2019re a compassionate society. We want to help people who can\u2019t help themselves. We want to help people help themselves, but we created a far too large dependent class. That\u2019s got to end,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to get people off the couch. They\u2019ve got to enter the workforce and grow our economy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s put work requirements back in order to receive any kind of public assistance. We can exclude the elderly and those with young children, but let’s put people back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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