Time for Class Warfare

The Republican Party is showing a selfishness reminiscent of Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake."  Paul Krugman's editorial  "Hunger Games, U.S.A." in today's New York Times decries the GOP's loss of it's soul with the recent passage in the House of a stripped down Agriculture bill where the gains are for the rich Ag combines and the shaft for recipients of Food Stamps.  I have always been for the elimination of farm subsidies, The Department of Agriculture and the Food Stamp program because it was contrary to a free market. But the mean spirited gall of favoring generously a few with public money (heads the rich win) while others are cast aside using the flip side of the same argument (tails the poor lose) is the warped machination of cronyism.