WHAT'S WITH IOWA...?

Iowans are tough, hard working and responsible. They are from the heart of the heartland and know what to do.

I think the answer is obvious. They don't have an audience there.

And so are, apparently, the people in Texas, south Mississippi and south Alabama. They've all been hit by hurricanes. You don't hear them bellyaching years after the fact. You don't hear the people of Illinois or Missouri whining like a bunch of lazy people.

BTW, the flood waters in Iowa are headed downstream to New Orleans. Are they preparing or are they doing the exact same thing they did with Katrina, just sit there and whine? What's Mayor Ray doing? Just another example of the 'They owes it to us' mentality, I'm sure.

Charles the Curmudgeon

Maybe its because Iowans are too stupid to stand around in the rain waiting to drown? I am sure that we'll get the diatribe about corn subsidies being their welfare so they don't deserve any government aid. How they build in a flood plain? They should build BELOW the flood plain to get the correct aid and all the attendant publicity - Bush should be hose whipped for allowing this flood. Maybe Al & Jesse will testify in congress about the causes or Al Gore?

Ron in Ca

Two recent commercials sum up the attitude in N. Orleans:

Sung "I WANT IT ALL"

and

"It's my money and I WANT IT NOW!"

Jack

Important point - no one has gotten any corn subsidies yet in 2008. Although a new farm bill has been passed, no money has been sent out. For that matter, there have been no corn subsidies for the last few years because the corn price was above the Federally established target price. Another important part, the biggest portion of the USDA's budget does not go to farmers at all, but is devoted to Food Stamps, a welfare program. Here is a quote from a CNN story:

"Two-thirds of the $300 billion in spending for the farm bill will go for nutrition programs such as food stamps. Another $40 billion will go toward farm subsidies, and $30 billion is allocated for payments to farms to keep land idle and other environmental programs."

So when the anti-farm lobby start whining about agricultural subsidies, remember, most of the money is really going to food stamps. The program to keep farm land idle is essentially an environmental program. They give you very little money to idle farm land. The only land "idled" is land so sorry, or so erosion prone you wouldn't want to farm it anyhow.

Ed

But Ed, it doesn't really matter that they (farmers) didn't get it. The media will still scream about the "farm bill" - I can see the argument now. "The farm bill is a gigantic welfare scheme to benefit farmers at taxpayer expense". The page 28 addendum (if they do it)"might" show the numbers.

With the ethanol mandate and the flooding, the farmers will play hell getting any support this year either. We bought eggs yesterday and prices about had doubled - my wife said why, I said corn prices, she said what does corn have to do with eggs. I said what do you think they feed chickens.

From another thread in this group; "Here's what was really funny: Polls showed that he still had very high approval ratings **** FROM WOMEN **** during and after the inquisition."

Hope this clears that up...