TN rep gets $3.5M in handouts, but says food stamp recipients 'stealing other peoples' money'

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Is he smiling because he
has a check in his pocket?

Oh this is rich. U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, a Tennessee Republican, gladly cashed $3.48 million in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies between 1999 and 2012.

Then, during a House Agriculture Committee debate, he spoke against the food stamp program, which feeds 47 million (Now there's a scandal) hungry Americans:

We are all here on this committee making decisions about other people’s money. We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.  This is other people’s money that Washington is appropriating and spending.

The <="http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2013/05/fincher-stole-food-stamps#.UZuNCBIGM-M.twitter">Environmental Working Group reported on Fincher's own theft of other people's money:

Fincher collected a staggering $3.48 million in “our” money from 1999 to 2012. In 2012 alone, the congressman was cut a government check for a $70,000 direct payment. Direct payments are issued automatically, regardless of need, and go predominantly to the largest, most profitable farm operations in the country. 

Fincher’s $70,000 farm subsidy haul in 2012 dwarfs the average 2012 SNAP benefit in Tennessee of $1,586.40, and it is nearly double of Tennessee’s median household income. After voting to cut SNAP by more than $20 billion, Fincher joined his colleagues to support a proposal to expand crop insurance subsidies by $9 billion over the next 10 years.

Tennessee, what were you thinking when you elected this guy?