... For the God-fearing Fincher is one of the largest recipients of U.S.D.A. farm subsidies in Tennessee history; he raked in $3.48 million in taxpayer cash from 1999 to 2012, $70,574 last year alone. The average SNAP recipient in Tennessee gets $132.20 in food aid a month; Fincher received $193 a day. (You can eat pretty well on that.) [4]
Fincher is not alone in disgrace, even among his Congressional colleagues, but he makes a lovely poster boy for a policy that steals taxpayer money from the poor and so-called middle class to pay the rich, while propping up a form of agriculture that’s unsustainable and poisonous...
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Hypocrisy In The Farm Bill
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i guess fincher didn't want to use the bible quote about the rich man and the camel through the eye of a needle.
one of the writers tossed it back to him. he's just another hypocrite who treats the Bible like a laundry list.
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