GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

[miketx]

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Yes I can prove it. Easily.

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

Catering to Conflicts: Influence and Self-Dealing at Trump’s Businesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

The google search for trump self dealing produced over 7 million responses:

trump administration self dealing - Google Search

Links prove nothing, are u two stupid to understand that?

 

[miketx]

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Not only did I prove you wrong, but I went back and did another search on Obama administration self-dealing and all of the articles that came up were about Trump and his families members. This is the only one that came up specifically about the Obama Administration:

On ethics: Obama went high, Trump goes low

Someone else saying something is not proof moron.

 

[Siete]

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Yes I can prove it. Easily.

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

Catering to Conflicts: Influence and Self-Dealing at Trump’s Businesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

The google search for trump self dealing produced over 7 million responses:

trump administration self dealing - Google Search

Links prove nothing, are to stupid to understand that?

are to ?

dumbass morons -

 

[Dick Foster]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

The farmers have been milking the subsidy cow since FDR and the thirties. That's coming up on 100 years and a full century pretty soon. Ten to twenty years isn't really all that far off.

 

[RodISHI]

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Yes I can prove it. Easily.

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

Catering to Conflicts: Influence and Self-Dealing at Trump’s Businesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

The google search for trump self dealing produced over 7 million responses:

trump administration self dealing - Google Search

Links prove nothing, are to stupid to understand that?

The searches will only bring up what the search engines desire a person to see. I went searching for a fairly popular song yesterday and it was zip. Searched for about an hour and nothing using the lyrics. Google should have never been allowed to buy youtube.

 

[easyt65]

'Breaking News: GAO, IC IG, Dems launch investigations of Trump giving homeless man on corner $1! Tax-payer funded? Did he take it from the military budget? Was the homeless man a Russian operative in disguise?'

Bwuhahahahahahahaha

 

[RodISHI]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

The farmers have been milking the subsidy cow since FDR and the thirties. That's coming up on 100 years and a full century pretty soon. Ten to twenty years isn't really all that far off.

I can understand why it is imperative to keep the farming going but what they have done is eliminate independents. The small farms and dairies have been shafted for years. At this point unless one is already independently wealthy or owns land it would be pretty hard to start one from the scratch up. Small business enterprises are in the same pickle. My only protection from corporate sabotage we experienced would have been to partner with one of two of the biggest raw material corps in the country.

 

[Coyote]

I dont mind farm subsidies in general, we are losing farmers at a rapid rate. But the ones that are hurting are the smaller farms and family farms, not the huge agribusiness corporations that are getting the bulk of the subsidies.

 

[easyt65]

The 'war on China', that resulted in best deal with China ever, hit famers in the wallet. The govt stepped in to counter what their political / policy was doing. Now the farmers will benefit from the deal.

The Dems are so desperate they probably have a 'whistle blower' in the WH bathrooms to report on whether Trump flushes and washes his hands when he is done or not.

 

[RodISHI]

I dont mind farm subsidies in general, we are losing farmers at a rapid rate. But the ones that are hurting are the smaller farms and family farms, not the huge agribusiness corporations that are getting the bulk of the subsidies.

That is still going to be up to congress to get it corrected and that is going to be a very rough road if it isn't done cautiously at this point.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

 

[easyt65]

I dont mind farm subsidies in general, we are losing farmers at a rapid rate. But the ones that are hurting are the smaller farms and family farms, not the huge agribusiness corporations that are getting the bulk of the subsidies.

That is still going to be up to congress to get it corrected and that is going to be a very rough road if it isn't done cautiously at this point.

'Done Well'...'with caution'......CONGRESS?

 

[RodISHI]

The 'war on China', that resulted in best deal with China ever, hit famers in the wallet. The govt stepped in to counter what their political / policy was doing. Now the farmers will benefit from the deal.

The Dems are so desperate they probably have a 'whistle blower' in the WH bathrooms to report on whether Trump flushes and washes his hands when he is done or not.

Have you ever seen truck loads of dead pigs on the road? The pig farmers get a plus because of the African swine fever that wiped out a majority of China's pig farms. Bird flu is now taking its toll over there on both domestic and wild poultry. Russia just found around 50,000 dead wild ducks.

 

[RodISHI]

I dont mind farm subsidies in general, we are losing farmers at a rapid rate. But the ones that are hurting are the smaller farms and family farms, not the huge agribusiness corporations that are getting the bulk of the subsidies.

That is still going to be up to congress to get it corrected and that is going to be a very rough road if it isn't done cautiously at this point.

'Done Well'...'with caution'......CONGRESS?

Yeah, I know but all the more reason to quit electing idjits and sellouts.

 

[Siete]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

The farmers have been milking the subsidy cow since FDR and the thirties. That's coming up on 100 years and a full century pretty soon. Ten to twenty years isn't really all that far off.

could it be you're too f'n dumb to understand not ALL farmers are getting paid back for losing their ass because of trumps trade war ?

 

[miketx]

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Yes I can prove it. Easily.

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

Catering to Conflicts: Influence and Self-Dealing at Trump’s Businesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

The google search for trump self dealing produced over 7 million responses:

trump administration self dealing - Google Search

Links prove nothing, are to stupid to understand that?

are to ?

dumbass morons -

I catch you whining babies every time, but I know the proper use of to, too, and two. You clowns are so easily made to show your filthy hateful ways over nothing. lol

 

[miketx]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

The farmers have been milking the subsidy cow since FDR and the thirties. That's coming up on 100 years and a full century pretty soon. Ten to twenty years isn't really all that far off.

could it be you're too f'n dumb to understand not ALL farmers are getting paid back for losing their ass because of trumps trade war ?

Too bad your lying hide can't ever prove one thing.

 

[Dick Foster]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

The farmers have been milking the subsidy cow since FDR and the thirties. That's coming up on 100 years and a full century pretty soon. Ten to twenty years isn't really all that far off.

I can understand why it is imperative to keep the farming going but what they have done is eliminate independents. The small farms and dairies have been shafted for years. At this point unless one is already independently wealthy or owns land it would be pretty hard to start one from the scratch up. Small business enterprises are in the same pickle. My only protection from corporate sabotage we experienced would have been to partner with one of two of the biggest raw material corps in the country.

The farm subsidies program is one of the biggest debacles, shams and taxpayer scams going.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Guys, you are living in a 1940 Frank Capra movie. There are virtually no more family farms in the Midwest. They are now cooperate farms owned by the wealthy. In my corner of Arizona, Warren Buffett has bought up huge chucks of land and is growing pecan trees on it. The farm subsides are going to these giant farm corporations, and we are paying for it.

 

[RodISHI]

Guys, you are living in a 1940 Frank Capra movie. There are virtually no more family farms in the Midwest. They are now cooperate farms owned by the wealthy. In my corner of Arizona, Warren Buffett has bought up huge chucks of land and is growing pecan trees on it. The farm subsides are going to these giant farm corporations, and we are paying for it.

No wonder such a push for more illegals to be given a free pass.