About Joni Ernst and her government subsidies... [View all]

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To be be clear, I'm not defending Joni and her folksy, hypocritical diatribe. Nor the complex and often dysfunctional farm subsidy system.

However, FYI

-Fellow Iowa GOP Senator Charles Grassley received payments totaling $327,246 from 1995 through 2012

-Former Iowa Democratic Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack received payments totaling $82,874 from 1995 through 2012.

-Even Carter Farms (Jimmy Carter) received payments totaling $272,288 from 1995 through 2012.

-Etc.

Environmental Working Group's 2013 update of its Farm Subsidy Database shows that 15 members of Congress or their spouses benefitted from a total of $237,921 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy payments last year. According to EWG's analysis of data derived from USDA records, members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate who received farm subsidies in 2012 were: http://www.ewg.org/release/members-congress-received-238k-farm-subsidies

Want to find out who in your neck of the woods is getting farm subsidies? Here ya go: http://farm.ewg.org/index.php?_ga=1.160719668.860104103.1422135244