a congressman who gets millions of
dollars in farm subsidies denounces food
stamps
as stealing other people's money so
missus and think progress and it's
really a good story
this is about congressman steven fincher
from tennessee he's a republican
and he's really angry and he is very
much against food aid for poor americans
included in the farm bill and and he
talked about this during last week's
house agricultural committee today
and he he accused the government of
stealing quote other peoples
now funding for snapped this upset will
mental nutrition assistant program
assistance program has already been
decimated in ought every single burden
of the farm bill it's cutting nearly
uh... two million working families chale
children seniors off of
mood assistance and fincher actually
invoke the bible he said
uh...
his defense of cutting food stamps
was based on his quote of the bible the
one who is unwilling to work
shell not eat now the hypocrisy comes in
that fincher interprets food assistance
for the needy as stealing right
but the farm bill has huge
agricultural subsidies and in fact
he supported a proposal to expand crop
insurance by nine billion dollars over
the next ten years
and he's personally benefiting from this
there's level one of hypocrisy which is
to support
the food stamp to support uh... they get
a getting rid of the food stamps but
support subsidies for farms in the
abstract but he's personally benefiting
from this right he is the second most
heavily subsidized farmer in congress
rec is personally getting this money
uh... u_s_d_a_ date at which was
collected in a farm subsidy database
says that fincher collected
the reina half million dollars of
our money as he would say louis from
nineteen ninety nine to twenty twelve
and in twenty twelve alone
he was cut government check for seventy
thousand dollars a direct
and this is it's so funny because
the average food stamp benefits in
tennessee is about fifteen hundred bucks
fincher got a seventy thousand dollar
farm subsidy in twenty twelve your whole
business exists because the government
gives you other people's money way more
of it then they give to people who don't
even have enough money to eat
when you make of it
uh...
hi pink
it when you when he thinks
that the people receiving
the money
are lazy people
who refused to get jobs
who like to say around one which off the
government right
he thinks it's okay for him to get the
government subsidies because he's a hard
worker
are so he says dr
so i'm sure that's how he justifies it
and interesting
yeah i mean the other thing too is maybe
he's just so accustomed to being on the
government dole
that he doesn't realize that it's also a
total welfare right on time maybe he
just he really honestly so used to
a_b_c_'s it is a different thing
most people who look at programs that
have been in the government for a long
time just consider them what the
government does even though
when they were originally brought into
la people were against them for the same
reason he's now against food stamps in
other words now people talk about that
the government out of my medicare
medicare is a part of our cultural
nineteen sixty five it wasn't until the
democrats passed it right so it's like
i mean basically this is the fundamental
help property excuse me in the right
which is that uh... until it affects
someone they care of
