it also says if you don t work, you don t eat. good god, please pardon the expression. does he get righteous about the government spending other people s money? we re all here on this committee making decisions about other people s money. we have to remember there s not a big printing press in washington that just continually prints money over and over and over. this is other people s money that washington is appropriating and spending. other people s money. get this. between 1999 and 2012 congressman fincher received payments totaling more than $3 million in taxpayer money in the form of farm subsidies. he was not alone. 15 members of congress or their spouses benefitted from a total of $200,000 in taxpayer funded farm subsidy payments last year alone. and what makes matters worse, an amendment to stop lawmakers from receiving farm subsidies was voted down yesterday.
s about making america s neediest that much needier. witness tennessee republican stephen fin cher. the bible also say it is poor will always be with us, and it also says if you don t work, you don t eat. but more than that, the role of citizens, of christians of humanity is to take care of each other, but not for washington to steal money from those in the country and give it to others in the country. the poor will always be with us. so why bother doing anything to help them? there was no more sympathy to be had in other corners of the gop. donny ferguson, communications director for texas tea party congressman steve stockman lived on food stamps for a week which amounts to $31.50 for seven days and said it was easy. quote, i wanted to personally experience the effects of the proposed cuts to food stamps.
more. how do you explain that. neil: adam. this is a gross oversimp oversimplification of another issue. there were other problems at hostess, other than not reaching an agreement with the union. i finally remembered ding-dongs from my childhood and i haven t eaten one in a very long time and i wouldn t feed one to my daughter. neil: a long time, last week. that s the problem here. and you re unamerican if you don t eat i m going to eat one of these, i ll eat a cannoli instead. shut up. in tactffact my thanks to charl and dagen, two thin obnoxious people. the hush before the rush, less than a week to the busiest shopping day of the year. our gang doing bargain hunting, not for the latest gadgets, for the hottest gadgets, for the hottest stock. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. fully customize it for your trading process from thought to trade, on every screen.
look at north dakota, where 3.5% of the population is unemployed and there is 16,000 jobs they can t fill in the oilfield, because the people unemployed don t have the skills for the people in the oilfields. well, there is no reason you should give people 99 weeks for doing nothing. this is an important national debate about a country which is founded in 1607 by captain john smith saying to aristocrats, not the poor, sighting st. paul, if you don t work, you don t eat. congress let all the aristocrats to adopt work as a behavior and you will see us come back and talk about that. beyond that, i want to come back on one of the projects i feel saddest about not communicating with l and talk about brain research and regene active medicine. if we reorganize the national institute of health and the food and drug administration, we can have in a remarkably short time absolute revolutions of better health, more independent living, longer living and dramatically lower costs.
things. the work ethic, puritanical work ethic. there s dignity in work. if you don t work, you don t eat. that s what we used to believe in. we used to make it shameful not to work. we call people that don t work hobos, what happened to the hobos? we need to bring these people back and make them feel ashamed but political correctness came in and said we don t want them to feel bad about not working. yes, we do! get to work! the ideology that told people that we don t have to work hard, we ll subsidize people and make high class hobos by taking money who work and give it to people that don t work. effectively they bought them off. this seems to date back years and years and years, even during world war ii, we were dealing with this issue that farmers, they couldn t get this kind of construction labor here in the united states. but what s happening right now in alabama and washington, other areas where they ve cracked down on illegal immigration. farmers there and other businesses bas