Yesterday, in Rosebud, Missouri.

Ferguson protestors met by hecklers

by Mark Slavit

Posted: 12.03.2014 at 6:02 PM

ROSEBUD, MO — Ferguson protestors were greeted by a large crowd of hecklers along Highway 50 in Rosebud on Wednesday afternoon as they marched to Jefferson City….

[….]

….Someone put an empty bottle of beer, a melon and some fried chicken in the path of the protestors….

“…No peace, no welfare check. Where’s Al Sharpton? Where’s the great Al Sharpton?…” – individual heckling the Journey for Justice marchers as they walked through Rosebud, Missouri.

Rosebud, Missouri is in Gasconade County.

Gasconade County, Missouri [agriculture subsidies]

$18.7 million in subsidies 1995-2012.

$11.2 million in commodity subsidies.

$3.33 million in crop insurance subsidies.

$2.70 million in conservation subsidies.

$1.48 million in disaster subsidies.

[….]

Rank Program Number of Recipients 1995-2012 Subsidy Total 1995-2012

1 Corn Subsidies** 708**   $6,843,224

2 Soybean Subsidies** 410**   $3,212,933

3 Wheat Subsidies** 678**   $2,477,156

4 Conservation Reserve Program 177   $2,261,917

5 Disaster Payments 517   $1,475,221

[….]

From the Missouri Department of Social Services:

Gasconade [County] [pdf] SFY-2013

Number of people enrolled for MO HealthNet services 1,936

MO HealthNet dollars spent in state fiscal year 20132 $18.3 mil

Estimated federal portion of MO HealthNet dollars spent $11.5 mil

MO HealthNet dollars for inpatient hospital services $1.3 mil

MO HealthNet dollars for physician services $1.0 mil

MO HealthNet dollars for nursing home services $5.3 mil

MO HealthNet dollars for pharmacy services $2.8 mil

MO HealthNet dollars for managed care payments $2.9 mil

Average monthly food stamp benefit recipients 1,980

Total food stamp benefits received $2.8 mil

Average monthly children receiving subsidized child care 58

Child care expenditures $113,439

Demographic information via the U.S. Census Bureau:

Gasconade County, Missouri

Population, 2013 estimate 14,901

White alone, percent, 2013 (a) 97.7%

Black or African American alone, percent, 2013 (a) 0.3%

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012 13.6%

Previously:

Rosebud, Missouri (December 3, 2014)

Senator Roy Blunt (r), via Twitter today:

Senator Roy Blunt ‏@RoyBlunt

The Obama Admin broke its promise to millions of seniors by cutting Medicare Advantage payments to pay for #ObamaCare. 6:55 PM – 21 Feb 2014

The White House response:

Jesse Lee ‏@jesseclee44 1h

Guess what? He voted for it http://www.senate.gov/legislat… … http://nyti.ms/1c97qoC  MT @RoyBlunt: Obama broke promise to seniors on Medicare Advantage 7:29 PM – 21 Feb 2014

From March 2013:

House G.O.P. Plans a Budget That Retains Tax Increases and Medicare Cuts

By JONATHAN WEISMAN

Published: March 6, 2013

WASHINGTON – House Republicans will preserve Medicare cuts that their presidential nominee loudly denounced last year and accept tax increases they sternly opposed just months ago in a new tax-and-spending blueprint that would bring the federal budget into balance by 2023, senior Republicans said Wednesday.

….Also, Mr. Ryan offered tempered praise for the cuts to Medicare that helped finance the Affordable Care Act, cuts that he denounced as his party’s vice-presidential nominee but that will help him avoid subjecting people older than 55 to his Medicare changes. “Because of Obamacare, you have – for a moment in time – lower Medicare spending rates,” he said.

With higher taxes, Medicare cuts and an unexpected slowdown in health care spending, budget experts say the House budget needs only about $100 billion in additional cuts toward the end of the decade.

In Mr. Ryan’s last two budgets, he also banked the $716 billion in Medicare cuts for the health law for deficit reduction, but when the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, attacked the president for those cuts and pledged to restore that money, Mr. Ryan fell in line….

Fancy that. The vote in the Senate:

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Murray Amdt. No. 433)

Vote Number: 46 Vote Date: March 21, 2013, 08:36 PM

Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 433 to S.Con.Res. 8 (No short title on file)

Statement of Purpose: To amend the resolution.

[….]

Missouri:

Blunt (R-MO), Yea

McCaskill (D-MO), Nay

[….]

[emphasis added]

From the Congressional Record, CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET, FISCAL YEAR 2014 — (Senate – March 21, 2013) [S2132]:

[….]

 AMENDMENT NO. 433

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, this next amendment is the Ryan budget. The House Republicans have doubled down on failed policies by passing the same budget that was rejected by the American people just a few months ago. Now Senate Republicans are going to have to decide whether they agree with this approach.

  This budget would be devastating for the middle class and the economy. It would cause millions of our workers to lose their jobs and dismantle programs such as Medicare that seniors and families depend on. It relies on gimmicks and tricks to eliminate the deficit by an arbitrary date and does all that while giving the wealthiest Americans a tax cut.

  I encourage my colleagues to oppose this amendment.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time?

  The Senator from South Dakota.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, the House Republican budget does something the Democratic budget does not do–it balances. It actually balances in 10 years, and it does it not by taxing more but by spending less, spending at a slower rate–3.4 percent over that 10-year period.

  If we look at what the House Republican budget does, it is focused on growing the economy, not growing the government. What the Democratic budget, before the Senate this evening, does is it grows the government, not the economy.

  In fact, if we look at the analysis that has been done, it is suspected the Democratic budget would cost us 850,000 jobs and reduce take-home pay for middle-class families by $1,500. The House Republican budget takes seriously the challenges that are facing this country, takes the steps necessary to save and protect Medicare for future generations of Americans, something this budget–the Senate Democratic budget–does not do.

  I urge my colleagues to support this budget, and it is a serious one, that balances the budget in 10 years and puts our economy back in growing mode and our fiscal house back in order.

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?

  There appears to be a sufficient second.

  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

  The clerk will call the roll.

  The bill clerk called the roll.

  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?

  The result was announced–yeas 40, nays 59, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 46 Leg.]

[….]

[emphasis added]

Senator Roy Blunt (r) voted for the cuts. He obviously has no shame.

Is anyone surprised?

Today, Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) jumped on the right wingnut Benghazi bandwagon via a release:

….On another matter, I am pleased that three career diplomats with knowledge of the events surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya were given the opportunity to testify before a House committee this week.

Mark Thompson, the U.S. State Department’s Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism; Gregory Hicks, the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya; and Eric Nordstrom, the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya all provided insight and thoughts on what really happened when four brave Americans were killed.

As you might recall, the American people were first provided a story about a video being responsible for inflaming a group of Libyans, enraging these individuals to the point they decided to attack the U.S. consulate and murder Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The decision was then made to not disclose al-Qaeda’s role in the attack.

Mr. Hicks’ emotional account of what he experienced that night raises questions about the attack and whether more could have been done to assist U.S. personnel on the ground. And he told the committee of his shock at hearing United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice telling American TV audiences that the deadly attack grew out of a protest over the video. Mr. Hicks said of the official White House line: “I was stunned, my jaw dropped and I was embarrassed.”

The American people deserve to know the truth about what happened in Benghazi and why a team of special-operations forces was told to stand down instead of heading to Benghazi to help. The effort to learn the truth is not a “witch hunt” as some have suggested. It is an effort to determine why four Americans died that night in Libya and to inform the American people.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which has held classified briefings and sought information of its own into the Benghazi attack, I must take strong exception to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment, when questioned about Benghazi and the killings, “What difference at this point does it make?” It makes a difference to the families of those brave Americans whose lives were lost in Benghazi. Those families and all Americans have a right to know what happened and why it happened. I will continue to work with my colleagues to shed light on this sad event and to try to prevent similar such tragedies from happening in the future….

“….The American people deserve to know the truth about what happened in Benghazi and why a team of special-operations forces was told to stand down instead of heading to Benghazi to help….”

Robert Gates: Obama made right decisions night of Benghazi attack

[….]

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / May 12, 2013

….Republican critics have said a Special Forces team or overflights by fighter aircraft based in Italy might have prevented the US losses or at least frightened off the attackers. Mr. Gates disagrees.

Such actions, he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, “without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on the ground, would have been very dangerous.”

“It’s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces,” Gates said, referring to morning-after analysis. “The one thing that our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm’s way, and there just wasn’t time to do that….”

Uh, Robert Gates served as Secretary of Defense for both Presidents Bush and Obama.

“….It is an effort to determine why four Americans died that night in Libya and to inform the American people….”

No Shame

October 14, 2012

….The ugly truth is that the same people who are accusing the administration of not providing sufficient security for the American consulate in Benghazi have voted to cut the State Department budget, which includes financing for diplomatic security. The most self-righteous critics don’t seem to get the hypocrisy, or maybe they do and figure that if they hurl enough doubts and complaints at the administration, they will deflect attention from their own poor judgments on the State Department’s needs.

At a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last Wednesday, Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California and the committee’s chairman, talked of “examining security failures that led to the Benghazi tragedy.” He said lawmakers had an obligation to protect federal workers overseas. On Sunday, he said more should be spent on diplomatic security.

But as part of the Republican majority that has controlled the House the last two years, Mr. Issa joined in cutting nearly a half-billion dollars from the State Department’s two main security accounts. One covers things like security staffing, including local guards, armored vehicles and security technology; the other, embassy construction and upgrades. In 2011 and 2012, President Obama sought a total of $5 billion, and the House approved $4.5 billion. In 2009, Mr. Issa voted for an amendment that would have cut nearly 300 diplomatic security positions. And the draconian budgets proposed by Mitt Romney’s running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, would cut foreign affairs spending by 10 percent in 2013 and even more in 2016….

So, is Representative Hartzler (r) going to to let us know how she voted on those State Department requests for security funding? Just asking.

“….I must take strong exception to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment, when questioned about Benghazi and the killings, ‘What difference at this point does it make?’ It makes a difference to the families of those brave Americans whose lives were lost in Benghazi. Those families and all Americans have a right to know what happened and why it happened…..”

A little more of that very special quote:

Hillary Clinton, Ron Johnson Engage In Heated Exchange At Benghazi Hearing (VIDEO)

Posted: 01/23/2013 11:09 am EST  |  Updated: 01/24/2013 12:12 am EST

“….With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” Clinton responded, raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. “Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator….”

Context is everything, except in the right wingnut political universe.

It’s in their nature.

Blunt Wants Federal Government To Do More For Joplin

Kevin Killeen

May 26, 2011 11:53 AM

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says he’s asking the federal government to reimburse 100 percent of the cost to local governments dealing with the Joplin tornado aftermath….

….In a phone conference with reporters Thursday,  Blunt says he has asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to do more.

“I’m asking for 100 percent federal reimbursement to local governments,” Blunt said, “They’ve agreed to 75.   I think they have to come to a better number than that, and the right number, I think, would be 100 percent….”

Senator Roy Blunt (r) at the Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Missouri, August 2012.

The U.S. Senate vote on Hurricane/Super Storm Sandy relief:

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 152 )

Vote Number: 4 Vote Date: January 28, 2013, 06:09 PM

Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Bill Passed

Measure Number: H.R. 152 (Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 )

Measure Title: A bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.

[….]

Blunt (R-MO), Nay

McCaskill (D-MO), Yea

[emphasis in original]

And if the relief had been for Joplin, Missouri?

Jan 28 2013

Senator Blunt’s Statement On Sandy Supplemental

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after the Senate’s vote on a $50.5 billion disaster supplemental bill:

“When a disaster exceeds the ability of communities and states, I believe the federal government has a responsibility to help people rebuild. Federal aid is an important tool to help get people back on their feet by restoring the infrastructure that was in place before a disaster – not a chance for Congress to attach stimulus-type spending or fundamentally alter the way we respond to future tragedies.

“In Missouri, we’ve had our fair share of disasters over the past two years during major flooding events, drought, and several tornadoes – including a deadly EF-5 tornado that devastated the City of Joplin in 2011. Following these tragic events, Congress provided targeted disaster funding through a regular appropriations process.

“Unfortunately, we did not follow the same process after Superstorm Sandy. I voted against this bill because it rewrites the Stafford Act and moves us farther away from a viable, long-term solution for funding national disasters.”

# # #

Ah, it’s all about “the process”. Right. Tell that to the people in the Northeast.

Previously:

HR 41: there but for the grace of… (January 7, 2013)

HR 152: Hey, it’s not in my backyard… (January 15, 2013)

Congressional earmarks.

That was then….

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): a conversation with bloggers in Kansas City (January 20, 2011)

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): ….I was surprised when Vicky Hartzler told me that she would take earmarks, she would seek earmarks, so….

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): town hall in Blue Springs, part 1 (April 29, 2011)

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): ….And say, well, let’s get rid of earmarks. I’m like, yeah, that’s a good idea….

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): town hall in Blue Springs, part 3 (May 1, 2011)

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): ….the Path to Prosperity budget that we passed….

….It cuts six point two trillion. We know that. Uh, bans earmarks, corporate welfare….

…this is now. A press release from Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D) office:

McCaskill report reveals 100-plus earmarks secretly passed by House

Senator investigated amendments to House Defense bill, found Representatives flaunting self-imposed earmark ban

December 12, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of work combing through a national defense spending proposal, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today released an explosive report finding that members of the U.S. House of Representatives attempted to circumvent their own self-imposed ban on earmarks, and that hundreds of earmarks were secretly attached to the House’s National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA) by the House Armed Services Committee.

McCaskill’s report uncovers an elaborate scheme put in place by the House Armed Services Committee Chairman that was designed explicitly to allow his committee’s members to earmark in violation of the ban on earmarks in Congress

“This has to be a record turnaround for members of the House who claimed to be giving up their addiction to earmarks,” said McCaskill, who recently introduced bipartisan legislation to permanently ban earmarks from the legislative process.  “These Representatives can insist all they want that they don’t do earmarking anymore-but if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.  And it demonstrates exactly why we need my bipartisan legislation to permanently ban earmarks….”

[emphasis in original]

There’s more, from a database of National Defense Authorization Act earmarks provided by Senator McCaskill’s (D) office:

House FY 2012 NDAA Earmark Tracker

Amendment # 8

Member Hartzler

Party Affiliation, State R, MO

Subcommittee Seapower

Considered En Bloc or Standalone? En Bloc 1

Approved in what manner Voice Vote

Amount (in thousands) 20,000 [$20 million]

Description For the development of mixed conventional load capability for bomber aircraft to prosecute a broad range of pre-planned and rapidly emerging target sets (Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Program)

Offset Used (in thousands where denoted) Sec. 4201 of Division D, related to RDT&E, Navy reduction of Line 227U Undistributed

Possible Recipient Units located at Whiteman Air Force base, specifically the B-2 bomber

Past Request for similar projects No

[….]

This request would add funds to the Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Program to develop mixed conventional load capability for bomber aircraft.  This account has not received Congressional Adds in the past.  However, in her May 13, 2011 press release on the NDAA, Hartzler states that Whiteman Airforce Base, located in her district, and wher[e] the B-2 aircraft is based, will benefit from the funding provided by this amendment. This request would double the size of the fund this year.  Given the statements made by Congresswoman Hartzler that these funds will benefit Whiteman AFB, it appears the funding provided by this ame[n]dment is intended to supprot [sic] the B-2 aircraft based at Whiteman AFB, in her district.  

Amendment # 108

Member Hartzler

Party Affiliation, State R, MO

Subcommittee Readiness

Considered En Bloc or Standalone? En Bloc 2

Approved in what manner Voice Vote

Amount (in thousands) 20,000 [$20 million]

Description Operation faculties in the amount of $20 million for Air Force construction (Air Force construction and land acquisition projects and operational facilities)

Offset Used (in thousands where denoted) None specified

Possible Recipient Whiteman AFB

Past Request for similar projects No

[….]

This amendment adds $20 million to Air Force MilCon line item for operational facilities.  Hartzler’s predecessor, Ike Skelton, secured $24.05 million for Whiteman Air Force Base in the Mil Con AF account of the FY11 NDAA that passed in the House. However, before final passage all the congressionally directed spending items, including this one were stripped from the bill.  Whiteman Airforce Base is located in Knob Noster, MO which is in Hartzler’s district.

“…And say, well, let’s get rid of earmarks. I’m like, yeah, that’s a good idea….” (April 29, 2011)

From Representative Hartzler (r):

Congresswoman Hartzler secures prominent role for FLW and Whiteman AFB in protecting national security

May 13, 2011 Issues: Immigration, Defense and National Security

….Hartzler was also able to secure $40 million in Air Force funds for vital national security needs.

“Half of this $40 million will allow us to house alert air crews in facilities closer to where they are needed to prepare for and to execute vital national security missions,” added Hartzler. “The remaining $20 million will support mixed conventional load capability for Air Force bombers, allowing them to hold a wide range of munitions. I believe this increase in funding willensure our air crews have the full capabilities necessary to protect this country….”

[emphasis added]

“…if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck…”

Anyone think the teabaggers are aware of this? Anyone think they really care? * IOKIYAR.

* it’s okay if you’re a republican

“…You know, who I am and, uh, the reasons I align myself with the Republican Party is a reflection of my background and experiences that I’ve had over the years…”

Hartzler Farm Subsidies — $774,489

Hartzler Farms Inc received payments totaling $774,489 from 1995 through 2009

Year Total USDA Subsidies

1995-2009

1995 $16,606, 1996 $28,070, 1997 $18,449, 1998 $32,765, 1999 $89,330, 2000 $89,261, 2001 $135,482, 2002 $24,517, 2003 $41,910, 2004 $61,708, 2005 $105,698, 2006 $38,598, 2007 $29,579, 2008 $39,878, 2009 $22,639

Total $774,489

“…my parents in January, would sit down and take several days, cash flowing the, uh, the year, projecting forward what they thought the yields on the crops were gonna be. The prices on the crops, looking at the expenses, the payments that we had, seeing if we’d be able to make it all work. And after a few years my mom and dad called my sister and I over and said, you need to sit here with us and learn this process…”

Those were evidently lessons learned well.

Yesterday, breathlessly, via Twitter:

@RepHartzler Rep. Vicky Hartzler

Check out my latest video from my speech about women in the economy http://tinyurl.com/3vrtqs9 19 Jul

Okay, we  will:

….Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Thank you very much Mister Speaker and thank you, uh, my friend from, uh, Washington state. This is so exciting to get to be here tonight to get to visit with the American people about what it means to be a Republican woman.

And I am honored to represent Missouri’s fourth congressional district. And as I share with people about the great, uh, district that I get to represent, it’s a story of the heartland. Uh, the Missouri’s fourth district we are just made of small towns and farms and we work hard and we hunt on weekends and go to church on Sundays. And we just want the government to leave us alone.

And basically what we have seen over the years is Washington getting bigger and bigger and pushing out the private enterprise and, uh, threatening our basic freedoms. And so that’s what we have to push, uh, back against and restore America’s greatness.

You know, who I am and, uh, the reasons I align myself with the Republican Party is a reflection of my background and experiences that I’ve had over the years. I wanted to share just a few of those things with you.

I grew up on a farm near Archie, Missouri. And as my mom and my dad and my sister and I, we raised corn and soybeans and we had a lot of hogs and, uh, we had a cow calf operation. And one thing that strikes me very, uh, pivotable [sic] to my life is my parents in January, would sit down and take several days, cash flowing the, uh, the year, projecting forward what they thought the yields on the crops were gonna be. The prices on the crops, looking at the expenses, the payments that we had, seeing if we’d be able to make it all work. And after a few years my mom and dad called my sister and I over and said, you need to sit here with us and learn this process. Well, I can tell you, as a little kid, that wasn’t the most exciting way to spend our evenings. But, it was a wonderful experience because we learned how hard it was to make everything work, and to pay for everything, and to live within your means. And I learned that you have to, you can’t spend more than you take in. And I learned fiscal responsibility. That is so much a part of the Republican party and what we are here trying to do is to restore that. Because Washington keeps spending money that it doesn’t have. And we can’t do that at home. We don’t do it on our farms, we don’t do in our businesses. And, uh, it’s time that Washington learned some lessons from the heartland and from and from ordinary families like mine.

Something else I learned on the farm is that, uh, hard work pays off, usually. Course there’s a lot of things dealing with weather and other things you can’t control. But, but one thing you can’t control lately is the amount of government regulations that’s threatening agriculture….

“…Uh, the Missouri’s fourth district we are just made of small towns and farms and we work hard and we hunt on weekends and go to church on Sundays. And we just want the government to leave us alone…”

Cass County, Missouri Summary Information

$74.9 million in subsidies 1995-2010.

$43.5 million in commodity subsidies.

$12.6 million in crop insurance subsidies.

$12.4 million in conservation subsidies.

$6.30 million in disaster subsidies.

Ten percent collected 74 percent of all subsidies.

Amounting to $45.9 million over 16 years.

Top 10%: $12,961 average per year between 1995 and 2010.

Bottom 80%: $274 average per year between 1995 and 2010.

[emphasis added]

4th District Of Missouri (Rep. Vicky Hartzler) Summary Information

$1.16 billion in subsidies 1995-2010.

$837 million in commodity subsidies.

$ in crop insurance subsidies.

$220 million in conservation subsidies.

$107 million in disaster subsidies.

Ten percent collected 71 percent of all subsidies.

Amounting to $827 million over 16 years.

Top 10%: $16,878 average per year between 1995 and 2010.

Bottom 80%: $412 average per year between 1995 and 2010.

[emphasis added]

“…And I learned that you have to, you can’t spend more than you take in. And I learned fiscal responsibility. That is so much a part of the Republican party and what we are here trying to do is to restore that…”

Really?:

The consequences of the last republican administration.

“…That is so much a part of the Republican party and what we are here trying to do is to restore that…”

I hope not.

“…Because Washington keeps spending money that it doesn’t have. And we can’t do that at home…”

Unless your home gets $774,000.00 in agriculture subsidies from Washington.

“…And, uh, it’s time that Washington learned some lessons from the heartland and from and from ordinary families like mine…”

Crop Summary for Hartzler Farms Inc

Crop Payments 1995-2010

Corn Subsidies $278,407

Soybean Subsidies $212,424

Wheat Subsidies $168,044

Livestock Subsidies $13,188

Sorghum Subsidies $6,408

Barley Subsidies $273

Because all ordinary families in the heartland are worth somewhere between four and fifteen million dollars?

And coming in at number seven out of 2,364 for agriculture subsidies in Cass County, Missouri?:

Total USDA Subsidies in Cass County, Missouri, 1995-2010

Recipients of Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Cass
County, Missouri totaled $74,879,000 in from 1995-2010.

7 Hartzler Farms Inc Harrisonville, MO 64701 $797,377

[emphasis added]

“…And, uh, it’s time that Washington learned some lessons from the heartland and from and from ordinary families like mine…”

Indeed.