[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E533]
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              THE BUDGET FOR CORPORATE FARMERS MUST BE CUT

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 7, 1995
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, American Agribusiness is one of the most 
successful industries on the face of the Earth. Due to the vision and 
foresight of the Congress which enacted the legislation which created 
the land grant colleges, the agricultural experiment stations, and the 
county agents, Government research and development made it possible for 
our farmers to leap way ahead of the rest of the world. No other 
nation's agriculture industry is even close to the United States when 
it comes to farm output and efficiency.
  Let us applaud the Department of Agriculture and all of the nameless 
workers who over the years have done such a magnificent job in 
supporting our farmers. But now, Mr. Speaker, most of that work has 
been done. The mission has been accomplished. We have a monumental 
success and we can relieve the taxpayers of the burden of helping the 
agriculture industry, especially the rich corporate farmers. Let's have 
a means test and from now on let's support only the few remaining poor 
farm families. Let's stop the indiscriminate subsidies. Let's end the 
crop insurance. Let's stop the special mortgages. Let's leave the 
marketplace alone and end the crop subsidies and price supports. Let's 
get the fat farmers off the dole. The time has come to drastically 
downsize the Department of Agriculture. We must end farm welfare as we 
know it. We owe it to the American taxpayers. In this Congress let's 
work hard to get fat farmers off the dole.
  The following poem summarizes the seriousness of the situation:

                          Farmers on the Dole

     Republican patriots
     Come play your role
     Keep fat farmers
     On the dole
     Helping cuddly honey bees
     Coddling cattle grazing fees
     Meat a city orphan
     Never eats
     Dole for welfare
     Dole for cheats
     Congress sink your fork
     Deep into Republican pork
     Hyprocisy over all
     Drives you up the wall
     O beautiful spacious skies
     Small town editorials
     Festering full of lies
     Farmers on the dole
     Farmers on the dole
     Hi-ho the dairytake
     Rich farmers on the dole
     Decades over
     And over it repeats
     Dole for welfare
     Dole for cheats
     The story's never told
     About farmers on the dole
     Seeds not sown
     Wheat not grown
     Plow the dollars
     Deep in the dirt
     Hide the shame
     Cover hypocrisy's hurt
     Farmers on the dole
     Farmers on the dole
     Confess to free money's role
     Rich farmers on the dole
     Mortgage the barn
     Until it drops
     Timid taxpayers
     Insure the crops
     Rural swindlers
     High on the hog
     Food for the homeless
     Thrown to the dog
     The story's never told
     About farmers on the dole
     Republican patriots
     Come play your role
     Keep fat farmers
     On the dole.


     

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