GOP refuses to cut subsidies for rich farmers

Those brave Republicans in the majority decided the best way to tackle runaway spending was to keep intact farm subsidies for poor farmers like Michelle Bachmann who are scraping by on $1.25 million a year.

Do the Tea Parties care?  Does anybody?  Hello?  Hello?  (Crickets chirping)

House spares farm subsidies, cuts food aid

By Philip Brasher

June 17, 2011 | DesMoines Register

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