Comments on: The Grinch who stole Christmas Dinner http://janechastain.com/2007/12/20/the-grinch-who-stole-christmas-dinner/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:05:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Pete http://janechastain.com/2007/12/20/the-grinch-who-stole-christmas-dinner/#comment-208 Pete Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:58:19 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=43#comment-208 Right on Jane! This was the sleeper issue of 2007, and it's a shame because it will spend nearly $300 billion of taxpayers' money if Bush signs it. We spent a lot of time on SCHIP, the Omnibus, and the AMT patch, but this one didn't get the debate it deserved. Even if this thing gets a veto, you have to wonder whether a bipartisan consensus won't be able to override it. Why is it that the only time Congress can seem to come together is when lawmakers want to spend our money? Right on Jane! This was the sleeper issue of 2007, and it’s a shame because it will spend nearly $300 billion of taxpayers’ money if Bush signs it. We spent a lot of time on SCHIP, the Omnibus, and the AMT patch, but this one didn’t get the debate it deserved.

Even if this thing gets a veto, you have to wonder whether a bipartisan consensus won’t be able to override it. Why is it that the only time Congress can seem to come together is when lawmakers want to spend our money?

]]> By: jay http://janechastain.com/2007/12/20/the-grinch-who-stole-christmas-dinner/#comment-158 jay Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:45:07 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=43#comment-158 I just want to know who is looking out for these poor politicians who have to spend other people's money and vote themselves pay raises and get fat benefits and ignore their constituents to look out for themselves..wait, nevermind. I just want to know who is looking out for these poor politicians who have to spend other people’s money and vote themselves pay raises and get fat benefits and ignore their constituents to look out for themselves..wait, nevermind.

]]> By: Fredric Butler http://janechastain.com/2007/12/20/the-grinch-who-stole-christmas-dinner/#comment-153 Fredric Butler Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:23:46 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=43#comment-153 Ranchers and farmers have an affinity for the FREE MARKET when they also happen to be the “hands-on” owners of their spreads or farms; these folks do not have an “employee” mindset; rather they would risk the travails and hardships that they suffer from weather, the lack of parity between costs and returns, and the solitude of their workplace from the interference and meddling of the “Dude” in Washington that assumes the role of a seer and precursor of these risks - or from he outrageous fortune of it all. “Farm Subsidy” is the brainchild of the “Dude”, and it is egregious in its intrusion into the affairs of the American farmer or rancher - the last of the breed; e.g., the American Cowboy, the Dirt Farmer, and that ilk. Guiliani, the “Dude” out of NY, knows little of “Heartland America”, and this bread basket to the world; ergo, the closest he gets to this workplace is in one of those swank eateries in Manhattan; as I read him and your recent column, the “good” Mayor would enter the agricultural market place no different than his constituents (corporate agri-business) have in the past, and leave the Cowboy, the Dirt Farmer, the “Hand” as chafe in the wind. Find me a Cowboy, a Dirt Farmer, a Philospher, a “hand to play” and run for the job of President, and I will play the game of politics, and vote for risky and free market; otherwise, I would rather be the chafe, residue and dregs of the folly that is fomented by these subsidies. Ranchers and farmers have an affinity for the FREE MARKET when they also happen to be the “hands-on” owners of their spreads or farms; these folks do not have an “employee” mindset; rather they would risk the travails and hardships that they suffer from weather, the lack of parity between costs and returns, and the solitude of their workplace from the interference and meddling of the “Dude” in Washington that assumes the role of a seer and precursor of these risks - or from he outrageous fortune of it all. “Farm Subsidy” is the brainchild of the “Dude”, and it is egregious in its intrusion into the affairs of the American farmer or rancher - the last of the breed; e.g., the American Cowboy, the Dirt Farmer, and that ilk.

Guiliani, the “Dude” out of NY, knows little of “Heartland America”, and this bread basket to the world; ergo, the closest he gets to this workplace is in one of those swank eateries in Manhattan; as I read him and your recent column, the “good” Mayor would enter the agricultural market place no different than his constituents (corporate agri-business) have in the past, and leave the Cowboy, the Dirt Farmer, the “Hand” as chafe in the wind. Find me a Cowboy, a Dirt Farmer, a Philospher, a “hand to play” and run for the job of President, and I will play the game of politics, and vote for risky and free market; otherwise, I would rather be the chafe, residue and dregs of the folly that is fomented by these subsidies.

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