The Millionaire RMoney Thinks Is a Typical Farmer

This is proof RMoney has no fucking clue that people who aren't millionaires even exist. Or rather that he thinks people who aren't millionaires aren't really "people."

 

This guy is RMoney's idea of someone who needs government help.

 

Stephen Lacey at Think Progress:

If Mitt Romney wants to change perceptions that he’s out of touch with the average American, he might want to try a little harder.

In an attempt to show his concern for farmers hit by the devastating drought that has swept 78 percent of the country, Romney had a photo-op with Iowa “farmer” Lemar Koethe. However, Koethe isn’t exactly the rugged down-home farmer struggling to keep his operation going that you might expect.

Or should I say operations — 54 of them. Yes, according to the Des Moines Register, Koethe owns 54 soy and corn farms. And that’s just one of his jobs.

In previous reports on his activity over the years from the Des Moines Register, Koethe is also a described as a millionaire, a real estate mogul, and a former concert promoter who booked acts like Slipknot at his 24,000 square foot event center.

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Finally, according to figures from the EWG Farm Subsidies database, Koethe has received $130,575 in conservation payments from the federal government. Conservation payments, which add up to about $5 billion in federal spending each year, are typically used by the government to encourage farmers not to grow crops — sometimes to stabilize prices and sometimes to preserve land.

RMoney wants to apply means testing to Medicare and Social Security so that the rich don't get benefits needed by the less fortunate. The real purpose of means-testing universal benefits like Social Security and Medicare, of course, is to tar them with the "undeserving poor getting welfare" image so it's easy to eliminate them.

Tell ya what, Mitt: let's try means-testing corporate welfare and subsidies-for-the-rich first. If your buddy Koethe is too well-off for Social Security and Medicare, surely he's too well off for farm payments.