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She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that the department was looking into program to help "mitigate any economic catastrophes that could happen to some of our farmers." Asked whether that would include direct payments, Rollins said, "We're working that out right now."
So they're looking into a mitigation program, they're working out a payment system... now? After annihilating government programs, starting a trade war with everyone and wrecking farmers' prospective income?
Thank goodness the US Govt is now in the hands of such professional, forward-thinking people who care about ordinary Americans and businesses. Such a relief after those radical lunatics who used to run things into the ground!
I'm sorry, if you're growing cherries, fucking expensive ass cherries, and can't stay afloat without almost a half million dollars of welfare, then what the fuck are you even doing? I don't fully agree with it, but I at least understand the importance of giving welfare to people growing crops we actually need, but frivolous shit like cherries? What a waste. If we're paying almost a half million dollars in taxes to give you cherry welfare, those cherries better be free or close to it.
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Choices and consequences. Hope they learn and I really don't care if they learn the hardest way possible, the family deserves it.
Bunch of welfare queens.
... Holy shit, this woman is fucking dumb and deserves to lose her farm.
-~~wanted~~ Needed a grant from the Government.
-Needed to hire migrant workers.
-Voted for the guy saying he was going to gut federal funding programs and close the borders.
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You get what you deserve! #jokerwasright
She sounds pretty dumb. Maybe someone smarter will take over the farm.
Why would she need a grant for hiring workers when they are about to be deported?
Anyway, dear Leopard, have a nice lunch of faces.
They get a $400k grant for free (previous years?) and struggle to keep the farm running?
Indeed. What did they think "welfare" is?
Single black mothers getting 100 bucks in food stamps a month.
That's the sad part. But were they able or willing to vote in the last election?
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No no no. It’s only welfare if you get it. It’s critical operating capital if they get it.
Lol get fucked
Hopefully her farm does go under. These people are not going to learn until they face the consequences in their daily life. This country will have to tear itself apart before we wake up.
She will still vote Republican as a bag lady, I'm afraid.
I seriously hate these people more than Trump.
I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were? What the repercussions would be for those in her line of work? Did it not occur to her that the migrants she pays shit wages to were the people he was ranting about deporting?
The answer, of course, is no. She did no research. She dedicated no meaningful thought to it. She wanted to fuck the liberals because they put Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill and she heard about the three trans athletes in her entire state and that was about where her consideration of the matter ended.
On a just barely positive note, we dedicate a frankly stupid amount of funding to keeping farms going despite their being laughably uncompetitive, most of the funding not really helping our food supply or economy, so it would probably be for the better if these cuts stick and idiots like her are forced to actually run their farms like businesses instead of thousand acre welfare queens.
I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were?
They "researched" hard enough to see the (R) beside his name and voted based on that research.
She is racist.
That's why she voted for Trump.
All the excuses she gives are secondary to the fact that she's white and hates seeing non-whites who didn't work as hard as her get government cheese.
These people voted Trump not because of "fuck the libs" or "save my farm" but because, they were first and foremost, racists.
Farmers in the US are just welfare nobility
Not really. The few independent small farmers left are just trying to make a living and raise their families.
The problem is the big conglomerate farms that own millions of acres that siphon off millions of gallons of water because they can.
You are right but it still makes me sad that she's just going to get gobbled up by some factory farm. Some about leopards and faces I guess.
That is literally what will happen if small farms go under. This would make our food supply chain even more homogeneous and less resilient. And probably increase costs at the supermarket as a result. It's too bad so many of these farmers are actively voting against their actual interests instead. For many of them the "find out" phase will hit them like a semi truck and they will never recover.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
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thousand acre welfare queens
Holy shit lol
Sorry, I would care. But your leader told me that empathy is humanity's biggest weakness.
That said. How the fuck can the richest country in the world have less social security than any country in Europe? How the fuck do you even survive until your 18?
We’re only the richest country in the world because we have roughly a football-stadium sized number of billionaires and multi-millionaires. The remaining 300+ million of us have largely been brainwashed to believe we need to sacrifice everything to prop them up.