{"id":798,"date":"2005-02-07T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=798"},"modified":"2005-02-07T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T17:04:08","slug":"george-has-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"george has limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/06\/politics\/06budget.html?th=&#038;oref=login&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">According to<\/a> the <em>NYT<\/em>&#8216;s, &#8220;Mr. Bush would set a firm overall limit of $250,000 on subsidies that can now exceed $1 million in some cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also reports that the decision is a &#8220;vindication of sorts&#8221; for Mr. Grassley, Iowa Senator who says he&#8217;s the &#8220;only family farmer in the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote-smart.org\/bio.php?can_id=S0291103\">son<\/a> who does &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildnesswithin.com\/cold_orr.html\">the lion&#8217;s share of the work<\/a>,&#8221; and between the years 1995-2003 received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/farm\/persondetail.php?custnumber=007143444\">$482,706.00<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lugar.senate.gov\/bio.html\">Sen. Lugar<\/a>&#8216;s family received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/farm\/persondetail.php?custnumber=003165813\">$100,854.55<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How does Grassley define &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Agriculture\/BG1505.cfm\">family<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Agriculture\/BG1542.cfm\">farmer<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT&#8216;s, &#8220;Mr. Bush would set a firm overall limit of $250,000 on subsidies that can now exceed $1 million in some cases.&#8221; It also reports that the decision is a &#8220;vindication of sorts&#8221; for Mr. Grassley, Iowa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}