It’s Now or 5 Years from Now
About a month ago, we asked you to call the Senate to help reform the Farm Bill. Thing is, they delayed the vote, and the amendments we want to see for the Farm Bill are just now coming up for a vote.
- You can help out by calling your Senators using the capitol switchboard:(202) 224-3121
- When you get through to the office, ask them to support the Lugar-Lautenberg Farm Ranch Equity Stewardship and Health (FRESH) Amendment and Grassley-Dorgan Payment Limits Amendment. You can use these talking points to help you with your call.
- Then, when you are done, report your phone calls here.
Our beef with the Farm Bill as it stands is that millions of dollars of subsidies go to big-business farms (small farmers get some too). These subsidies help the big farms sell their crops below cost. The result is that small farmers here and around the world simply can’t compete.
The Lugar-Lautenbern and Grassley-Dorgan amendments both help fight poverty by putting caps of the size of subsidy payments that can go to big-business farmer, and puts the savings into things like nutrition programs.
The Farm Bill only comes around for review and renewal every 5 years, so this is our last chance for a good while to fix this thing. I Hope that you find a moment during a study break to pick up the phone and make a couple of quick calls to your Senators.
UPDATE: Lugar-Lautenberg just failed 37 Yea – 58 Nay. focus your calls on the Grassley Dorgan amendment.
February 11th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Under Canada’s Health Care if you travel and a doctor said not to travel. You can lose coverage for that illness. So heart patients need to get ok to travel in vacation outside of Canada. The same thing happens in the US unless you purchase extra travel insurance. Sorry, bud. Our system is not so great.