Posted in Local Iowa, Political on 05/25/2007 08:16 am by admin
From the Environmental Working Group’s Farm Subsidy Database, I bring you the largest welfare recipients in the Mount Vernon, Iowa area:
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 837 in zipcode 52314
Recipients in this zipcode received $38,527,837 from 1995-2005
Select names below to view details of that farm/farmer. View Complete List here.
| Rank |
Name |
Location |
Subsidy Total
1995-2005 |
| 1 |
Leonard Broulik & Sons |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 1,922,179.78 |
| 3 |
Ray G Stoner Farms Inc |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 866,763.57 |
| 5 |
David V Stoner Farms Inc |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 865,740.88 |
| 7 |
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundatton |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 834,263.80 |
| 9 |
Douglas Schrader |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 820,767.30 |
| 11 |
James A Brannaman |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 678,300.93 |
| 13 |
Rudolph E Hornacek Trust |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 644,381.51 |
| 15 |
Interstate Land And Investment Co |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 523,682.82 |
| 17 |
Paul G Ciha |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 501,429.19 |
| 19 |
Roy Johnson Family Partnership |
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 |
$ 455,681.32 |
(Wordpress is mangling this list)Â
source: http://ewg.org/farm/addrsearch.php?s=yup&stab=SC&city=&zip=52314&z=See+Recipients
View The List at the Environmental Working Group
Posted in Political on 05/18/2007 06:33 pm by admin
Gregor Rothfuss mentions on his blog that he has used a new feature of Google maps to map the Top 10 USDA farm subsidy recipients in the US
He provides links in the map images to the Environmental Working Group’s Database http://www.ewg.org/farm/ that gathered the data from the USDA.
The EWG writes about their history including:
March, 1995: EWG produces our first report from the database, City Slickers, which traces hundreds of millions of dollars of farm subsidy payments to recipients in America’s biggest cities and wealthiest zip codes - like 90210 - most of whom had no real day to day involvement with the farms that qualified for the aid. The report makes front-page news nationwide.
My thought:
- People work for a living and earn income.
- Goverments take part of the money people earn in the form of taxes.
- Through American infatuation with the ideal of the ‘family farm’, agri-business maintains a lucrative hand-out payoff system with the federal government, and working people must give their $$ to agri-business.
Really interesting stuff!
Posted in Ecological Collapse, Political on 05/11/2007 10:46 am by admin
Stifling summers forecast by Nasa for US east coast
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 11 May 2007
Researchers at Nasa have warned that unless growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be successfully curbed, large areas of the eastern United States, from Washington DC to Florida, can expect to suffer through catastrophically hotter summers within just a couple of generations.
A study released by Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University finds that by 2080 average summer high temperatures in parts of the east will be about 10F higher than now, pushing them from the low to mid-80s to the low to mid-90s.
A study released by Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University finds that by 2080 average summer high temperatures in parts of the east will be about 10F higher than now, pushing them from the low to mid-80s to the low to mid-90s.
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