The morning after the Republican rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union Speech, I checked with the Farm Subsidy Data Base because I was curious to see if Joni Ernst from Iowa and the person delivering the Republican rebuttal received farm subsidies for her farm which, to me anyway, would have made her reference to being from a poor farming family that had to live off the land in a hard scrabble manner a little disingenuous.

I have a friend whose mother’s family had been poor traveling farm workers who had shared housing with animals, or the empty shelters for animals on certain farms that they worked. My friend’s mother had some interesting recipes for various foods that were based on ingredients that were available.

Bread was a luxury, and the homemade bread the family had was made from what was available that could be made into bread or something close to it.

I knew other people, not farmers, who because they were also poor made their own bread as buying a loaf would have been a little extravagant.

I wondered how much bread Ernst’s family could and did buy on a regular basis if Joni needed a bag for each foot each time it rained, as did the siblings she referred to in her rebuttal, and how the number of bread bags needed would be determined by how many days in a row it rained.

That could be a lot of Wonder Bread bags.

I was curious about the amount of bread this family ate, and, if they were that poor, how they could afford the quantity they apparently purchased.

Wouldn’t it have been more economical to have a bag of flour on hand, and since it was a farm, and they would have the rest of the ingredients readily available, bake their bread.

I was also intrigued to find that, even as she speaks against no-fault divorce her parents had one, as did her present husband who fell in love with Joni when she was an ROTC college student just a few years older than her future husband’s daughter while he was her commander.

He got a no-fault divorce rather than one based on adultery that would have had legal consequences that could have ruined both their military careers.

So when an anti- no fault divorce politician, whose parents got one, and whose marriage itself is based on one, condemns no-fault divorces, and when a traditional marriage defender marries a man who left his wife after having had a relationship with that politician speaks of poverty and against those who need a little help, I just had to satisfy my curiosity
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I found that there were 85 Ernsts in Iowa receiving subsidies, and of them Joni’s family’s subsidies came close to half a million dollars.

These poor farmers got the following government assistance:

Joni Ernst’s great grandfather, Harold Culver, received $57,479 from Washington over 6 years.

Her father, Richard got $14,705 in conservation payments and $23,690 in commodity subsidies by the federal government, totaling $38, 395, while her uncle got $367,141 in federal agricultural aid, with over $250,000 geared toward corn subsidies.

Unmentioned by Senator Ernst was that besides that farm her father had, he also owned a construction company that had received more than $200,000 in county contracts while she served as auditor of Montgomery County, which was a violation of the county provisions that controlled contracts to the families of county officials. Clearly there was a conflict of interest.

So while representing herself as a girl from a poor farm whose family is an example to other families that they should live within their means, work hard, and get ahead, her family relied on taxpayers and perhaps a little graft.

Her family did not do it alone.

Yet she is opposed to programs that will help American citizens who may need them, even for a little while.

She seems cut from the same cloth as Paul Ryan whose family’s construction company made money off government contracts, and he paid for college with the Social Security benefits he received as a result of his father’s death, while he now calls people, who rely on the government for employment and assistance, takers.

Their families got help, and more than once, but screw everyone else.