Former Clinton USDA Official: “Our political system is basically evil versus spineless now"

[JDPriestly]

72. It is interesting to me that Republicans are wiling to pass the farm bill which funds crop

insurance for farmers but will not extend unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own and who cannot get new ones in this jobless recovery.

Crop insurance covers farmers losses when the weather prevents them from working or destroys their crops.

Unemployment insurance covers the losses of employees when the economy prevents them from working.

In a sense, crop insurance and unemployment insurance serve the same ultimate purpose: to make sure that Americans can stay alive when, through no fault of their own, they are unable to make a living.

What makes it worse is that we will be paying crop insurance to corporate farms -- employers -- while long-term working people will not be eligible for unemployment insurance and will have to get by on reduced amounts in food stamp assistance.

Republicans really are about helping corporations and not about helping real people.

This proves it to me.

I think there is a good political ad in my point. Contrast a family unable to buy enough to eat with a corporation gobbling up its farm subsidy.