21 Jun 2013 1:38 pm
Apropos of the fact that the Farm bill went down yesterday, I thought this article from May was rather interesting.BLESSED ARE THE HYPOCRITESTenn Rep. Stephen Fincher Pocketed $9 Million in Ag Subsidies, Says Jesus Hates Food StampsWonkette-May 21, 2013So in our story yesterday on the Congressional debate over just how deeply Jesus wants food stamps to be cut, we missed a tiny detail that is probably worth mentioning. One of the special flowers seeking to slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps, was Tennessee Bible-humper Stephen Fincher, who argued against feeding the hungry by quoting Jesuss message of love and indifference in Matthew chapter 26: the poor will always be with us, and they will always be nasty tricksy takerses. They takes the precious and we hates them, we do."Only it turns out that we were unaware of one other delightful factoid about Rep. Fincher, brought to light by the blog Southern Beale: when hes not busy saving taxpayers money by telling hungry children to **** off and die, Rep. Fincher is a proud member of the agribusiness community, and according to the source of all knowledge, Finchers family agribiz has received $8.9 million in farm subsidies over the past decade, mostly from the cotton program, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.(Yes, theres a source, so you just knock off your wiki-bashing, you.)And while other candidates in the 2010 primary made some noise about those subsidies, Fincher nonetheless won his district as a Tea Partier who hates big government. Just not when its lining his pocket, because he is a Maker, not a Taker.Son of God Jesus Christ was unavailable for comment at press time, as He was busy saving some but not all children from a tornado.Read more at http://wonkette.com/...AJz9MvoVUVQv.99Why is this filthy hypocrite even allowed to serve on the Agriculture Committee, when he stands to gain financially by their decisions?Fincher invoked biblical verses to back up his belief that food stamp spending should be cut by at least $20 billion, while he voted to increase crop insurance by $9 billion.In relation to money for the SNAP program, Fincher said, "This is other peoples money that Washington is appropriating."I wonder whose money he thinks goes to pay his farm subsidies?Apparently both the House and Senate bills contained language that would deny us the right to know which members of Congress are receiving these subsidies.The Farm Bill Will Make Some Subsidized Congressmen Anonymous