It’s not just time, it’s long past time. Of course, Doug Bandow has been preaching this for years, to little avail.
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It’s not just time, it’s long past time. Of course, Doug Bandow has been preaching this for years, to little avail.
Comments are closed.
The Farmer-on-the-Dole,
The Farmer-on-the-Dole,
Hi-ho the dairy-oh,
The Farmer-on-the-Dole,
The Farmer-takes-a-wife,
The Farmer-takes-a-wife,
Hi-ho the dairy-oh,
The Farmer-takes-a-wife.
The wife teaches school,
the wife teaches school,
Hi-ho the dairy-oh, the
Wife teaches school.
The guv cuts her benefits,
the guv cuts her benefits,
Hi-ho the Walker-oh, the
Governor cuts her benefits.
The Teachers form a mob,
the Teachers form a mob,
Hi-ho-no-we-won’t-go,
The Teachers form a mob.
The activists collect signatures,
the activists collect signatures,
Heave-ho the Senators will go,
the activists collect signatures.
Oh, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/wisconsin-recall-election-results_n_904053.html.
Two to one margin of victory. Not bad.
Yes, the Bachmanns received over $260,000 for their farm.
I’m not sure how the Wisconsin recall election is relevant to this post, but should be be surprised that an incumbent Democrat won in a Democrat district?
“But which farmers? Not the idyllic family farmer. The majority of payments go to farms with average annual revenue exceeding $200,000 and net worth around $2 million.”
A net worth of $2m is not a large farm. Land is expensive and so is machinery. These are not liquid assets and in the case of land are often passed on to children. It is not like the land can be sold for retirement without ending the family business.
Revenue of $200k? How much of that $200k goes to paying the costs of running the farm? Water, fertilizer, fuel, equipment, maintenance, labor, ect. Revenue does not equal profit.
If the price of any of the costs associated with running the farm go up or if there is a bad growing season or two, it is very easy for a farm to go under.
I can understand people wanting to end farm subsidies but when they use something like the quote above as evidence to support their position, it just shows what they don’t know about farming.
Two to one margin of victory. Not bad.
You must be joking. A n00b challenger in a recall election with a criminal record — a domestic battery conviction plus 4 drunk-driving convictions! — who was able to raise and spend — wait for it — a whopping $2000 on his campaign still manages to get 30% of your constituents to vote against you?
If I were that Democratic incumbent, I would have felt the breeze of that bullet trimming my eyebrows and be sharpening up my act as fast as possible before a serious challenger appears.
“I’m not sure how the Wisconsin recall election is relevant to this post, but should be be surprised that an incumbent Democrat won in a Democrat district?”
Picture this. The Wisconsin Governor drops his “bomb” (his words). The lefties, union thugs, and other moochers form their flash mob. 14 Democrats in the State Senate become Fleebaggers by decamping to Illinois, but are thwarted by State Senator Scott Fitzgerald passing the portions of the controversial “budget repair” bill without the budget provisions, essentially following the advice offered for weeks on the Right Blogosphere, here and other places.
A lefty Dane County judge blocks the Budget Repair with a court injunction. More union thugs support a zany challenger to an incumbent State Supreme Court justice and come within a hairbreadth of winning where the zany challenger (zany in being unable to get a judgeship out of Democrat Jim Doyle or Barack Obama) had to bring the Priest Scandal (many union people are Catholic) into the mix.
Union thugs gather signatures to challenge 6 sitting Republican State Senators in recall elections. Heroic conservatives gather signatures to challenge 3 fleebagging Democrats.
The first of these recall elections took place yesterday, against one of the 14 Fleebaggers, Dave Hansen. Of the Democrats, Mr. Hansen was regarded as the most vulnerable of being kicked out for Fleebagging — essentially leaving his constituents without representation by engaging in action of questionable legality and ethics to hew to the union and Democratic Party line. Of the 3 Fleebaggers up for recall, Mr. Hansen comes from the closest of what might be considered a swing district — strong labor component in Green Bay, yes, but strong conservative and Tea Party sentiments in a district remote from Milwaukee and Madison.
His recall challenger, Mr. VanderLeest, is one of the heroic conservatives who spearheaded the drive to bring the Fleebaggers to account. He loses by 2:1 yesterday.
Mr. Obama has shown the ability to turn gold into lead. Unions have no place in public sector employment and are a scam to elect Democrats. The portion of GDP payed to Social Security and Medicare recipients goes up automatically without regard to the ability of the economy to pay. Farm subsidies, well, you get the general idea.
In the midst of this, there are warning signs that Republican, Libertarians, Tea Party members, what have you, may be engaging in overreach, or if not overreach, at least clumsy Direct Approach tactics. But with the 2012 election looming, most commentators on the Right Blogosphere will have none of such warnings — who is, say, David Brooks but a squish at best and a Liberal Fellow Traveller at worst? The national budget crisis is of Greek proportions, and if we don’t act know and get all squishy, we are doomed to Socialism and dictatorship. But there is that election in 2012, and Mr. Obam will be defeated. Won’t he?
Are you saying that farmers are going to vote for Obama in 2012 if farm subsidies are cut and the evidence of this is the recall election in WI?
It will be interesting to see if any Republicans lose their seats but I don’t think the outcome will matter much for Obama’s campaign.
Poor ADM. What would they do without subsidies?
“You must be joking.”
Um, a zany judicial wanna-be, whom even Mr. Obama won’t appoint to anything, comes within a couple thousand votes of a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat?
Uh, the Republican counter to the unions opening up a can of recall on 6 of their State Senators is to run their weakest candidate against the most vulnerable Fleebagger? As to the four OWI convictions, a local left-liberal Web site suggests you have Mr. VanderLeest confused with another candidate. Mr. VanderLeest had a host of other problems.