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Attacks before. welfare queen. the 7%. makers versus takers. well, what sharpton did not tell his audience is that he and his editors doctored that clip by cutting out the context. my comments were specifically aimed at just one person a guy named jason greenslate who fox news exposed as gaming the system. here s the full context of what i said. time for investigation segment. the food stamp scandal. right now, 15% of the entire american population receiving food subsidies and the year 2000, just 6% were getting those. some of those people are conning the system. last week, fox news ran a one-hour special on the situation. john roberts tracked down a surfer in california eating on the taxpayers dime. the food stamp program designed to be for a point in your life where you re, you know, down, things weren t going ....
All of those sugar substances that go into packaged food. packaged food is cheap. people with very few food subsidies have to buy that. they re buying it from the walmart. so the people who actually end up enriched from this whole process are the most wealthy people, and yet, it s the only thing that we have left. katon, maybe folks could really get down with a shrinking of this part of the social safety net if there was also a willingness to have a discussion about how farm subsidies current work and the ways in which they subsidize the wealthy. and that s the way washington works, you hit it. it s the powerful lobbies, the subsidies that go out to wherever they go, and the small farmer. we talked about it the last time we talked about s.n.a.p. we had the administrator of one of the small farmers programs. and that s one that we see in my home state of south carolina, whether it s farmer s markets or whatever it is, and they re ....
Congressman tom latham of iowa. a couple of farms that had his name on them, so back home, he was taking farm subsidies. hurrica hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government, but he voted to cut food subsidies for people who needed to eat. martha roby. back home, she has been getting checks from the federal government from her farm, thank you very much, but in congress, she voted to keep the farm aid going to herself, but to cut the money for people who need help getting something to eat. wants specifically to keep the money going to her, but cut the money that goes to anybody else. call me a liberal, you do any way, but how do you vote that your family should be able to continue to be given federal money through this specific bill, but you cannot abide other americans, poor american, getting money from the same bill so they can eat? how can you take it for yourself ....
He used to be co-owner of the latham seed company. a couple of farms that had his name on them, so back home, he was taking farm subsidies. hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government, but he voted to cut food subsidies for people who needed to eat. martha roby. congresswoman from alabama. she has a farm in montgomery, alabama. back home, she has been getting checks from the federal government from her farm, thank you very much, but in congress, she voted to keep the farm aid going to herself, but to cut the money for people who need help getting something to eat. same bill. wants specifically to keep the money going to her, but cut the money that goes to anybody else. call me a liberal, you do any way, but how do you vote that your family should be able to continue to be given federal money through this specific bill, but you cannot abide other americans, poor americans, getting money from the same bill so they can eat? how can you take it for yourself and move to blo ....
Philosophy, do we, the american people, and really our representatives, believe that bank x, that is going under, do we sit around and wait for its to unwind itself and go through its living will. will people say, that is going to effect the market, and ergo let s save it. we re looking right now at a congress that is willing to cut food subsidies for poor people, particularly for poor children, and we don t think, oh, look, our children are too important an asset to let them go hungry. that notion of this being an id ideology. one of the things hank paulson says he regrets most the bankers get big bonuses after the bailouts. and yet we can have a farm bill that cuts out food stamps but are you saying do americans value ceos more than poor children? ....