North Carolina ‘wacko bird’ GOP candidate Greg Brannon compares food stamps to slavery

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/north-carolina-wacko-bird-gop-candidate-greg-brannon-compares-food-stamps-to-slavery/



North Carolina ‘wacko bird’ GOP candidate Greg Brannon compares food stamps to slavery
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 14:29 EST

An extremely conservative U.S. Senate hopeful says he would eliminate food stamps because they’re like slavery.

Republican Greg Brannon, who says he moved to North Carolina because of his admiration of the late segregationist Sen. Jesse Helms, made the comments in an October interview with the state’s Tea Party.

The self-described “wacko bird,” who is leading Republican Sen. Kay Hagan 45-43 in one recent poll, said he would abolish the Department of Agriculture and its $76 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because founding father James Madison said so.

“Agriculture will never be a federal function, it’s a local issue,” Brannon said, paraphrasing the fourth president in a quote highlighted by Mother Jones.

[egold2604]

1. And due to the law of unintended consequences subsidies for big ag farms would be eliminated.

What a putz. Obviously, he does not know that most of the Department of Agriculture's subsidies are for price supports for big ag. It is similar to when St. Ronnie wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy and his advisers told him that most of the Department of Energy's budget were subsidies for nuclear power plants which produced weapon grade plutonium for defense. Otherwise, nuclear was not economically feasible as an energy source.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Get some fucking decent paying jobs in the state and You will get rid of FoodStamps.

Problem Solved.