This is a serious question that needs to be answered. Why are farm subsidies continued and not on the GOP table for cuts?
The GOP doesn't have farm subsidies on the cutting board because their base doesn't support cutting farm subsidies.
Your turn...Why didn't the Democrats, whose base supports cutting farm subsidies, cut them when they had a super majority in Congress and the Presidency?
That is a damn good question. HOWEVER, owing to the fact that the Democratic party is so screwed up that they couldn't even pass a worthy Healthcare Reform Bill with a SUPER majority, I am amazed they managed to get ANYTHING accomplished. That being said, since the new, new GOP is supposedly so fiscally conservative now and so anti-socialistic, shouldn't they be pushing to end the socialistic program of our Federal Government propping up farmers and agri-glomerates with tax payer dollars? It really doesn't seem fiscally conservative to me?
Did they have the super majority in the Senate, at the time of the healthcare bill? I thought they had already lost their super majority with the death of Ted Kennedy and a republican taking his slot?