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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.
And 95% or more will most likely go to corporate megafarms and leave the small farms out to dry.
Less than he gave to argentina
Didn’t this genius do nearly the same thing in his first failed term?
That other one-time
Sounds like welfare
Such a bunch of socialists. :)
Must be all those welfare queens we keep hearing about
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.
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.
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.
How many of those farmers voted for trump? You reap what you sow, farms should know that. But many farmers have learned you reap a huge welfare check when you sow hatred so they keep doing it.
Reap what you sow in your instance means starve everyone in yhe country to death.
A. No it doesn’t, we already imported more then we exported and still do.
B. That’s not an excuse, make better choices and stop crying when stupidity inevitably kicks you in the ass.
Depends on what they are farming and what you mean by “everyone”.
The article says most of this will go to those that produce soybeans and corn - most of that is livestock feed.
Livestock we eat?
I don’t eat livestock. About 6% of Americans are vegetarian, proving that plenty of people do w/o livestock and don’t starve.
Having the option for the other 94% is pretty nice though.
Nice? Sure, I guess. However, I was talking more about starving vs. not.
Wait for mega farms owned by vc and banks to be the ones to get the most as always.
Stop crying start reading.
Who doesn’t want farmers to prosper? And are they farming for altruistic reasons?
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
