Albany's Insanity

Why should Congress do anything? It has achieved the perfect outcome. It pays farmers to grow certain crops, and it pays other farmers not to grow crops at all, then pays (allows tax deductions) investors and the wealthy to encumber land in a conservation easement…. follow the money.

We are going to hell in a hand basket at the hands of this useless, pandering, corrupt congress. Thank you Speaker Pelosi and Senate leader Harry Reid.

Reason Magazine – Farm Bill Follies
Congress avoids every opportunity to reform wasteful and outdated subsidies

Ronald Bailey | April 30, 2008

The $300 billion farm bill is being cobbled together by Congress this week. As Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) noted, “It’s not just a farm bill. This is a farm and a food and an energy bill.”

As Otto von Bismarck quipped, “Laws are like sausage. It’s better not to see them being made.” Let’s take a look at these three aspects of this unappetizing piece of sausage.

First, what do the farmers get? Answer: A lot. Last year, net farm income reached a record level of nearly $89 billion due to high crop prices. Farm household income averaged $84,000 in 2007, according to the Environmental Working Group (the 2006 average for all U.S. households was $66,000). Despite such good times, the federal government showered $5 billion in direct payments on 1.4 million farmers.
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This is an old article by Walter Williams but just as applicable today as it was 3 years ago. Divorce? It’s always an option but highly unlikely, we can’t get enough people to vote the right people in to office and just keep electing the same type of blood suckers every year.

We are headed that way and I fear for this country more and more everyday. We are being run and controlled by a bunch of self serving, corrupt and greedy lifelong politicians. Long gone are the days of the Citizen Legislator. We have no Statesman or Leaders any more. It’s sad, truly, truly sad.

Walter Williams ~ It’s time to part company

If one group of people prefers government control and management of people’s lives, (Democrats) and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, (Conservatives) should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, and risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences, or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?

Like a marriage that has gone bad, I believe there are enough irreconcilable differences between those who want to control and those want to be left alone that divorce is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.
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Pretty amazing when you take a couple minutes to look at the figures to see that the Democrats in Congress and the MSM are lying to you. Surprised? I’m not, it goes on continuously, day in and day out. The Robin Hood mentality must stop, who do you think benefits when you look at the figures below? WE DO……

TAX CUT COMPARISONS

After watching a focus group of democrats that watched the democratic debate the other day in Vegas, I literally wanted to puke. For the most part, all of them bashed Bush over and over again on how he is out for his millionaire friends and the big oil companies and he has totally forgotten or disregarded the little guy. So being an ex-IRS employee, I decided to look back on the tax tables to see if there is any truth to what they said and the media keeps stating as fact, “Bush is only out for the rich in this country.”
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