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| The vote on the farm bill doesn't necessarily break down on party lines. It's possible that he just didn't think it was good enough for Iowa farmers.
The thing is, the Farm Bill really isn't a farm bill anymore. It's more than half SNAP & the like. Many urban representatives, democrat and republican voted no because of the work requirement. The truth is, food & rent costs in urban areas are really high, so high that even if you have a job, by the time you pay rent there isn't enough money left buy food. Wages simply haven't kept up with costs.
Even here in a rural area I know of people who work and are fugal but still have trouble making ends meet. It's especially hard on single mothers with children. There are a lot of families who get a good part of their food from a food bank.
It's amazing how much food the food banks pass out and it's needed, millions of pounds per year. They even have gleaner programs here where vegetable farmers let them pick over already harvested fields for blemished vegetables. Here the state has a program where hunters get to kill nuisance deer which gets processed for free by the local processors and donated to the poor.
Do I think there could be better programs? Sure, but sometimes you just have to make sure the people have enough food. As far as welfare fraud & the like, here anyways, they check and every so often somebody goes to jail, so it's not like it's rampant. | |
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Picture how your congressman Voted on Farm bill
