House Republican Welfare Statists
January 29, 2014
Republicans love personal and corporate welfare: “The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill authorizing nearly $1 trillion in spending on farm subsidies and nutrition programs.” The vote was 251-166. The Republican vote was 162-63. This is the clearly unconstitutional farm bill, which is nothing but a welfare bill.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
You Call that Serving the Country?