Thank You, Thomas Massie (Demands roll call vote on "Global Food Security Act")

Source: C4L - Campaign For Liberty
Published: Apr 19, 2016
Author: Norm Singleton
Post Date: 2016-04-19 17:40:55 by Hondo68
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Yesterday, the House passed H.R. 1567, the "Global Food Security Act." As I wrote earlier this week, H.R. 1567 "....requires the President to coordinate the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy to accomplish the objectives of promoting global food security, resilience, and nutrition consistent with national food security investment plans."

It also authorized the federal government to spend one billion dollars on foreign aid programs, which is chump change in DC, but as Senator Everett Dirksen once said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money." This is on top of the billions the U.S. Government currently spends on overseas programs.

It is bad enough that House Leadership would put legislation like this on the suspension calendar, but even worse, they intended to ram this legislation through on a voice vote.

Fortunately, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie caught wind of this scheme and was on the floor to demand a roll call vote. Thanks to Mr. Massie, we now know which members support spending more of your money (or increasing the debt owed by you and your children) on wasteful foreign aid programs, and which ones stand with the taxpayers and the American people.

That's the good news. The bad news is... only thirty-three representatives voted against this new foreign aid bill.

You can see the roll call vote here.


Poster Comment:

The roll call vote revealed that 201 Republicans were in favor of Food Stamps for ISIS, Boko Haram, Hillary's Libyan Freedom Fighters, Sen. John McCain's Syrian Democratic Rebels, or whoever.

33 patriotic RINO's and Zero(0) Democrats voted against supplying free food to terrorists, or whatever they think that they're trying to do.

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#1: sneakypete    To: hondo68 (#0)

Zero(0) Democrats voted against supplying free food to terrorists, or whatever they think that they're trying to do.

What they KNOW they are doing is buying votes from the Agricultural and food industries. Besides the votes,they also get bags of cash delivered to their doors,public gifts of cash to finance their re-election campaigns,private grants given to schools in their district with the understanding from the recipients that this manna from heaven is due to the well-wishes of their representative,jobs for relatives,etc,etc,etc.

Feeding foreigners doesn't really have squat to do with it. It's all about feeding their retirement accounts and their campaigns as long as they are in office.

sneakypete posted on 2016-04-19 18:07:09   Reply   Private Reply


#2: buckeroo    To: hondo68 (#0)

Where do these freaks in Congress get the money? Shake down the US taxpayers on the very day we had to pay our 2015 taxes or go to jail.

The nation is based on freaks lead by goons and surrounded by STUPID people.

buckeroo posted on 2016-04-19 22:10:43   Reply   Private Reply