(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — The nation's top agriculture official is expected to announce Wednesday more than $300 million in emergency assistance to 33 states and Puerto Rico to help them recover from an unusually intense year for natural disasters across the U.S.
Utah and Missouri will receive the most disaster aid, together taking in $109 million, or more than one-third of the $308 million in aid from Department of Agriculture watershed and conservation emergency funds, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack told The Associated Press ahead of a formal announcement later Wednesday.
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big wop. 308 mil. for 33 states and puerto rico. wow, can they spare it?
ReplyDeleteask yourself this; why does this government have that kind of money being wasted in the department (usda) paying millions of dollars to employees and other expenses when that money could have stayed in the state to begin with? why is it we have to be taxed at such a high rate when all they do is turn around and give us back a very small amount of our own money at their descretion? that's what i'm sayin'.
this madness must stop.
How on earth does the USDA have that kind of money to award to states?
ReplyDeleteThis government is out of control!
3:42, you do realize your fed taxes have been at historic lows for years now right?
ReplyDelete633, doubt you would say that if it was your family farm that was one disaster away from being destroyed. Doubt you would be saying that if we were dealing with even wilder price swings in commodities due to farms going under.