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You think bipartisan support is rare?
Not when there’s cuts to poor people in there.
The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance
And barely got any liberal resistance.
More subsidies to support the Big Farmer
Gets a signature from Barack Obama.
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Among other things, Karen Dolan is the Institute for Policy Studies’ deadline poet. IPS-dc.org
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