Showing posts with label US Department of Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Department of Agriculture. Show all posts

October 23, 2013

SD Newspaper Appeals Denial of FOIA Request For Food Stamp Data


[From article]
"What is it about this information that should be kept secret?" one judge asked Bengford.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/10/newspaper-presses-fight-for-food-stamp-payment-data-175793.html

Newspaper presses FOIA fight for food stamp payment data
By JOSH GERSTEIN |
10/23/13 5:23 PM EDT

 

June 25, 2011

US Dept of Agricultuire Unnecessary

[From article]
"The US Department of Agriculture [. . .] is a vast, self-perpetuating postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget of some $130 billion -
[. . .]
the department this year will give a record $20 billion in various crop "supports" to the nation's wealthiest farmers
[. . .]
it is borrowing billions to pay farmers to grow uncompetitive fuel.
[. . .]
The USDA is now sending more than $1 billion to African-American farmers who sued the government, alleging past discrimination in federally subsidized farm-lending programs. But such understandable reparations are experiencing mission creep, as the number of would-be recipients claiming past discrimination far exceeds the number who actually farmed.
[. . .]
In these days of record federal deficits and unsustainable national debt, it is long past time to eliminate the department -- or least rename it "The Department of Food Subsidies."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_department_of_grotesque_payoffs_ERFt3WusTxpN0wWuARCcDL

The department of grotesque payoffs
Victor Davis hanson
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:43 AM, June 25, 2011
Posted: 9:57 PM, June 24, 2011