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With the Memorial day holiday past us, my family had our traditional barbecue. We did it right in the back yard so the gas it costs to drive somewhere did not hurt. What causes pain is that the cost of food has gone sky high. It is easy to say “Well the gas prices have effected food”, they need energy to produce and transport the food. However there is a pork barrel (figuratively not my family famous ribs) bill in congress that is the absolute worst earmark this nation has ever seen.

This bill is a $289 billion pig fest. The Republicans have forgotten the core values of fiscal responsibility and duty to the taxpayer when they voted this bill out of Congress. The Democrats are buying farm state votes and believe in socialism.

When farm subsidies were created in the 1930s, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace called them “a temporary solution to deal with an emergency.” That emergency was collapsing small farm incomes affecting the 25 percent of the population living on farms producing food at that time.

Who are the taxpayers subsidizing? Not the family mom and pop farmers struggling to stay on the land. The recipients of this bill are millionaire commercial farmers who report an average income of $200,000 and a net worth of nearly $2 million. President Bush proposed limiting farm subsidies to those earning less than $200,000 a year, but that was rejected.

Republicans have blown a big opportunity here to go back to their base and show they are fiscally responsible small government lawmakers. This was a perfect opportunity — unfortunately, they will not have many more chances.

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