time again and a consequence is not provided, that is diluted. think about this. what s the message in venezuela where iran has gotten a foot hold? go ahead, do your own thing. we open you re not a socialist, communist nation, but whatever happens, happens. we can t go through life like that. a lot of people say we can t go through life with this obamacare the way it is. it s interesting, i believe it was yesterday or the day before up in mankato, minnesota, where i have some relatives, three u.s. representatives, a u.s. congress two u.s. congressmen and a u.s. senator were seated right there in front of folks who were there predominantly to talk about the ag bill. when somebody asked this question and look at the priceless response from the audience. i thought the affordable health care act was to save $2500 per family. what happened?
it is chock full of huge taxpayer subsidies for some of the biggest agribusinesses in the country. you know, we hear our republican colleagues talk about interference in the marketplace. the ag bill is exhibit a for interference in the marketplace by way of providing these big subsidies. in the context of a bill that provided these huge subsidies to continue, i don t see how you can justify the changes they made to the food and nutrition programs. i think they did the best they could. republicans tried to cut 40 billion. they were able to limit the damage. in the context of the bill, i just don t see how people would support that. all of that is spot on, what you re saying. at the end of the day it comes down to this, we picked on the
get rolled on a variety of legislation, ag bill, transportation bill, not because of democratic opposition but opposition in his own party, where spending cuts were too much for some or not enough for others. i ve got to tell you if you want open warfare, civil war, try to see boehner suggest the sequester be canceled or cut back to get enough democrat votes to do something and he may not be speaker beyond that point. stan, i want you to explain something in layman s terms i had a friend of mine who is a nuclear engineer and talks about the complaints all of his bosses have when they have a continuing resolution that gets passed that dictates their funding levels versus an actual budget and how that actually costs us money. why do continuing resolutions, even if they are the same amount of money that an annual budget would be, why does it cost more money? the simplest way to put this, continuing resolution may be the stupidest way to budget you can
maybe he did things wrong and right. that s irrelevant. in conservative circles, you don t talk about racism or sexual orientation. you don t talk about abortion. there s a desire to want to the really push the line, particularly the party is becoming neo-con federate. they want to get right up to that line. what is this obsession with wanting to do that? rush limbaugh wanting to say the n word. there seems to be this desperation to push the line on race baiting understand, the only time that will republicans talk about the issue of race is when it is about them being called racist. otherwise they won t address the issue. have they dressed inequality in american schools between black and white students no, they have not. have they talked about the issue of food stamps other than say there are more people on them under obama than before? no, except to leave it out of the ag bill because oh, my gosh, that s the welfare. remember the movie st. elmo s fire and they were around that
on. the big issues are kicked down the road. we are not talking an ag bill. we are not talking the se que sequestrian. it s going to affect people in the middle incomes paying higher taxes. they all come together. they are talking about keeping the lights on. they are going to be mired in this. whatever happens today, you have another pressure point when you come up to the debt ceiling. it s dangerous to play with. again, it s another pressure point to get the parties together. it s the inability to work together for the common good. it sounds like things look different. we are starting to accept this is how business gets done, this is who we are. this is what we have in this country. one last thing to you mr. s.