Courage!

I can’t disagree with Akin’s no vote. Farm aid and subsidy was established for agriculturist when world markets were restricting trade.

What I find ironic is Akin lives in Creve Coeur, in a residential area - and about two acres of his 5 acre property is zoned AGRICULTURE and he pays only $100 in property tax on those two acres, where no crops or hay is grown.

I’ll never vote for Akin. He’s not like an average citizen. He doesn’t like public education and home schools his kids, even though his home district Parkway is one of the best in the country.

There’s just something about him that makes me think he’s just weird and sometimes creepy.

Nuts to the Missouri Farm Bureau.

I wish more Republicans had voted against this bill. What’s more surprising though is how much Democratic support it garnered. Democrats love to demagogue the issue of corporate welfare, but when push comes to shove, they usually vote for it.

Scott Simon….
If you think Akin is creepy you should read the biographies of some real weirdos like G. Washington, B. Franklin, J. Madison, and T. Jefferson. Those nuts actually thought citizens should be free to make choices (good and bad) without government interference except in cases of necessity as defined in the U.S. Constitution. Of course they would never understand the reasoning for embedding socialist spending in a “farm” bill that is unconstitutional to begin with. It is amazing how many nut jobs there are who don’t realize the wisdom in the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, which outlines the reasoning behind the farm bill.

A local TV station did a report last year on Akin’s “tax-evasion” scandal concerning his farmland (residence) in Town and Country. Actually, Akin has 5 acres assesed as agricultural even though he doesn’t own livestock or grow crops. In the 1990’s new subdivisions with million dollar homes were built adjacent to his land. Akin is the only one with agricultural assessements valued at $150 an acre…Everyone else, and many homeowners have several acres, are assessed at the residential rate of $205,000 per acre…..County assessors claim they need access to Akin’s property to complete a new assessment, but he’s never home…

It pays to be a Congressman. It’s so nice of him to be concerned about how taxpayer’s money is spent.

“County assessors claim they need access to Akin’s property to complete a new assessment, but he’s never home…”

You know you’re lying, right?

Let me get this straight:
Out of $300 billion, $39 billion was going to agriculture (13%),and, $219 billion were going to the food stamp program (73%). Just one question. Where was the other $42 billion (14%) going? Or is this something that Akin is not willing to talk about? Or did someone goof up in doing their math?

Fish head….Here, watch the video before you start shooting your mouth.
http://www.ksdk.com/video/default.aspx?aid=54484&bw=

Your turds are piling up in the yard again garrison. It’s a lie to claim Akin’s involved in some sort of property tax scandal. The property is being assessed at the proper amount. As the reporter correctly said, if it’s not zoned correctly, it’s the county’s fault, not Akins’.

The report also clearly states that landowners are not responsible for keeping property records up to date in St. Louis or any other county. The reporter clumsily tried to make an issue of it, but it’s a simple fact that landowners do not have to be present during assessments (remember the “drive by” assessments a couple years back?).

It’s probably true assessors won’t enter a residence without advanced notice or permission, but that doesn’t have to come from the congressman himself. Anyone can let them in or put keys under the door mat. And since the only issue involved here was land, the assessment could have been made from the side of the road or by using one of the county’s own aerial photos. The reporter curiously leaves out the simple fact that land zoned agricultural doesn’t have to be a working farm. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of private property in this state not cultivated or used for livestock production.

If there’s a “scandal” here, it’s entirely in your feverish mind.

Let’s see Todd Akin’s no vote on farm subsidy is something you agree with but he not like the “average citizen” because he self educates his children which makes him weird and sometime creepy. Scott are you voting age?

Ed Jamison

Yeah, I’m voting age, 51 years old. Todd Akin makes votes affecting public education but doesn’t use it. That’s fine. He could send his kids to private schools, plenty within 5 miles that are nationally recognized for top results. He can afford it too. But they homeschool, proving again these bozos think they’re better than anyone else. Akin is weird and creepy. Not someone the average voter would want to drink beer with.

If Todd was really an honest representative, he’d call and have his property reassessed. After all, with Republicans, they push for more local control. Well it’s hard for the locals to control when their Congressman is kiting them on property tax.

Todd Akin is a self serving nut case. Ed, don’t challenge me. I’ve got more elected Republican friends than you’ve ever met in your life.

Fish head just explained the mentality of Todd Akin and most Republicans….”If you’re advantaged in some way, and it’s someone elses fault, don’t try to correct it or do the right thing. Just ignore it or pretend you’re stupid”.

If you give a cashier a $10 bill and she gives you change for a $20…just keep it. It’s not your responsibility to help her.

Why doesn’t the Congressman just insist on fairness and do the right thing instead of hiding under the bed when the assessors knock on the door?

Better clean up that yard comrade or someone might make an anonymous call to the Health Department.

Scott, I don’t have all the facts regarding the Akin issue, but I find your comments regarding public education to be fairly humorous. While Parkway is a good school district and perhaps “one of the best”, when you’re comparing that with other public schools throughout the nation, that doesn’t mean much. Public schools have been failing our children for over 30 years. Math, Reading, and Science scores bear that out time and time again. I don’t blame Akin for home schooling.

Suddenly, after voting for ridiculous amounts of tax breaks for the already too wealthy, voting for the deficits his great grand-children will be paying for and beyond, voting straight down the line with the GOP and Bush for every corporate tax break and limit on working people’s rights to sue and every dollar for the war in Iraq, Mr. Akin claims he’s being “fiscally responsible.”

Bollocks!

Akin is a Bush/McCain clone!

Excellent! If Akin is a Bush/McCain clone, I’ll keep supporting him!

No courage needed - no farmers in his district, nor many folks on food stamps.

Todd is not troubled about giving money to agri-business, but those people who need food? Todd says let them eat cake.

Nuts? As indicated by his Davy-Crockett-and-his-Blackberry comment, I might think so. I shudder to think about the history his kids must be learning.

Also: Go_Fish wins the trophy for naiveté.