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Michele Bachmann, Corporate Welfare Queen, Just the Tip of the Corporate Welfare Iceberg

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When originally proposed in 1933, the idea of paying farmers federal subsidies to destroy or refrain from harvesting crops was intended to stabilize prices and prevent family farmers from going under during the Great Depression.

As revealed by Jim Hightower, the former TX Agricultural Commissioner, in Thieves in High Places, at present the farm subsidy program "delivers zero money to 69% of America's real farmers, awarding some of the biggest payments to such corporate giants as DuPont and Chevron."

Hightower furnished the classic example of the corporate perversion of the FDR program that was intended to save the family farm: government subsidies paid out to Charles Schwab, the NY stockbroker, whose $4.7 billion fortune places him 67th on the list of wealthiest Americans.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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