Trump administration announces $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers
Trump administration announces $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers
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Didn't this genius do nearly the same thing in his first failed term?
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That other one-time
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Less than he gave to argentina
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And 95% or more will most likely go to corporate megafarms and leave the small farms out to dry.
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Sounds like welfare
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Such a bunch of socialists. :)
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Must be all those welfare queens we keep hearing about
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These farmers are what Chomsky means when he talks about "worthy victims". I'm sure many of these people voted for Donvict knowing that he'd be harming lots of people, including themselves, but based on his first term, that he'd throw some money at them...
These people deserve welfare because, well, reasons.
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Oh noes farmers may actually realize they are being fucked! Let's give them welfare checks. Well not the darkies anyways. Must keep em dumb and voting.
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Where does that 12 billion for soybean and corn farmers come from? The people who can't afford their groceries. America has enough corn. America grows corn just to burn it as a gasoline additive. Maybe if the price of corn is falling, it's time to grow something else.
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not just an additive for funsies, it replaces the pollutant MTBE as an oxygenating agent, necessary to mitigate smog-creating emissions.
it’s also not a petrochemical, so reduces the carbon footprint of gasoline.
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I like how people don't want the farmers to prosper. These aren't big banks that make up money and loopholes. They are the people making sure EVERYONE else doesnt die of starvation.
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Wait for mega farms owned by vc and banks to be the ones to get the most as always.
Stop crying start reading.
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Who doesn't want farmers to prosper? And are they farming for altruistic reasons?
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The majority of the farms around me are cash crops, not providing food for survival. I'm in central California and all I see here is almonds, pistachios, tomatoes and cows. We need to get rid of these since it's just wasted space that's doomed to fail as it's using up valuable resources to profit the few that own them.
We have one acre and we grow a variety of different veggies, trying to grow with sustainable methods like regenerative farming practices. We trade with other like minded people and my wife donates excess to the local church to help feed the poor. We need more people doing this and less of the big corporate farmers lining their pockets while everyone else suffers.
Screw these bailouts
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