An interesting look at income inequality

[Exterminator]

It affects everyone's quality of life.

"Forty-five percent of the parish's residents receive food stamps, or SNAP benefits. The average payout is $1,492 per person per year.

This is a top gripe of the northsiders.

What you don't hear discussed as much is that they get help, too.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture spent $12.3 million in 2012 subsidizing farming in East Carroll Parish through direct payments, insurance breaks and other subsidies, according to data compiled by the Environmental Working Group, which tracks government farm subsidies.

The average farmer who gets a commodity subsidy in the parish received $20,554 in 2010, according to the group. The most highly subsidized farmer that year in East Carroll Parish got more than $655,000 from that one subsidy program."

[The Troll]

It affects everyone's quality of life.

"Forty-five percent of the parish's residents receive food stamps, or SNAP benefits. The average payout is $1,492 per person per year.

This is a top gripe of the northsiders.

What you don't hear discussed as much is that they get help, too.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture spent $12.3 million in 2012 subsidizing farming in East Carroll Parish through direct payments, insurance breaks and other subsidies, according to data compiled by the Environmental Working Group, which tracks government farm subsidies.

The average farmer who gets a commodity subsidy in the parish received $20,554 in 2010, according to the group. The most highly subsidized farmer that year in East Carroll Parish got more than $655,000 from that one subsidy program."

  I don't know the average farmer income here in Madison County, but I know that several farmers close to Anderson has got over 3 Million dollars in farm aid from the government in the past 10 years.     Belly up to that old government trough Republican farmer Bodenhorn.   

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You can thank a Democrat for the farm subsidy.  Remember "the new deal?"

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AgriculturalSubsidyPrograms.html

Modern agricultural subsidy programs in the United States began with the New Deal and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_Coalition

[Exterminator]

You can thank a Democrat for the farm subsidy.  Remember "the new deal?"

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AgriculturalSubsidyPrograms.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_Coalition

That was 80 years ago and not only have the Republicans done nothing since then to repeal it, your teabilly douchebags are the ones benefitting from it.  I'm guessing you couldn't be bothered to read the article...it's pretty long and god forbid you put your partisan bullshit aside for a minute and actually learn something.

[me]

That was 80 years ago and not only have the Republicans done nothing since then to repeal it, your teabilly douchebags are the ones benefitting from it.  I'm guessing you couldn't be bothered to read the article...it's pretty long and god forbid you put your partisan bullshit aside for a minute and actually learn something.

Once something like that is started it's almost impossible to stop it.  Just like a lot of the "government give aways" the dems are so good at there is a price to pay down the road and no one wants to listen to it they just want the "freebies". 

[Exterminator]

Once something like that is started it's almost impossible to stop it.  Just like a lot of the "government give aways" the dems are so good at there is a price to pay down the road and no one wants to listen to it they just want the "freebies".

Everyone wants their freebies, you included.  What do you think the price to pay down the road is for ignoring our crumbling infrastructure or failing to adequately educate our population so they can compete in the global marketplace?  Conservatives only think of now; they don't learn from mistakes made in the past or consider the future.

An interesting point made by the article is that income inequality affects everyone in society negatively, even the rich.  The U.S. has the highest rate of income inequality of any industrialized nation in the world and we also have the highest rates of incarceration, violent crime, unwed teen mothers, STD's, etc.  The right seems to advocate turning our country into a third world nation.

[Henry Hawk]

I'm not speaking for the right or the left....I just want, as a tax paying citizen, to stop the foolish spending, the fraudulant spending and the "entitlement" mentality.

I now we have this occuring on both sides of the spectrum.  Corporate welfare is wrong too.

I have zero problems with social spending to help those who need help.  It is my opinion, we have created a generation of folks who "EXPECT" a government hand out in order to survive.

I think if we concentrated more on allowing our private sector into creating jobs, so we could alleviate those who need help, so they could help themselves, would be better for our nation.

I know we are aguably the most generous people on earth, at least at one time we were.  I think too many today, feel that they do not need to give, because our gov already gives.  Not saying that is right, but if we did not have that mentality, we may have even fewer "needy" to take care of.

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Everyone wants their freebies, you included.  What do you think the price to pay down the road is for ignoring our crumbling infrastructure or failing to adequately educate our population so they can compete in the global marketplace?  Conservatives only think of now; they don't learn from mistakes made in the past or consider the future.

An interesting point made by the article is that income inequality affects everyone in society negatively, even the rich.  The U.S. has the highest rate of income inequality of any industrialized nation in the world and we also have the highest rates of incarceration, violent crime, unwed teen mothers, STD's, etc.  The right seems to advocate turning our country into a third world nation.

If things go at the present rate we will have income equality alright, we will all be poor. 

[The Troll]

If things go at the present rate we will have income equality alright, we will all be poor.

  You got that right, all but the upper 10% of the super rich and you're helping them.  Sweet Pea.   

[Palehorse]

  You got that right, all but the upper 10% of the super rich and you're helping them.  Sweet Pea.   

Yup. You got that right Troll. (Except I think it is the upper 1% instead of 10%)

[Henry Hawk]

WAIT!!!! Obama and his democrat buddies is going to change that!  RIGHT?

[Exterminator]

  You got that right, all but the upper 10% of the super rich and you're helping them.  Sweet Pea.   

Exactly.

[The Troll]

Yup. You got that right Troll. (Except I think it is the upper 1% instead of 10%)

  The plans Hitler had for the Russian people when he took over Russia, was to take the cities and build walls around them.  Where the German citizens and their technocrats would live and everyone else would live out side starving and serving the Germans inside the walls.   

  This is what the 1% rich and the 9% technocrats want for America.  This will be serve up by the religious Christians, the fools, the uneducated Republicans who will vote it in.   

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