trump is planning on 12B in subsidies to farmers hurt by his tarrifs
conservatives, despite some bemoaning the payoffs wont actually do anything to stop them.
its proof that conservatives are really socialists.
Ok. I’ll not be posting for a few hours. I need to go downtown and stand in the free cheese line.
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I’m sorry to hear you’re so poor that you need free cheese.
Trumps economy, aren’t we all standing in the free cheese line?
Trump bootlickers LOVE government bailouts now!
Nah…it’s proof Trump is a socialist…and that Republicans allow him to get away with it because he is the Republican President. That’s all.
It’s not socialism… It’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Farmers or TANF… We already have offices all over the country with the appropriate signage so the farmers can go there to pick up their checks…
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Well… poor or not, why should I work for it when I can get it for free?
So, do you agree with the bail out? Try answering a question honestly and without deflection for once.
Evidently like tax money going to farmers that they’re not working for.
Libs calling me a socialist and then asking me to answer honestly without deflection…
Priceless.
And that’s the problem with sarcasm. I was being sarcastic, instead of making my point clear, so instead of addressing my point you just go for more sarcasm.
My bad.
Let’s eschew the sarcasm and actually address the issue.
Farmers have long been subsidized, yes. Milk oceans and butter and cheese mountains.
But that’s the point. Our government has always subsidized farms - so they’ve always been on welfare even though they work hard, etc. (Even the very wealthy “hobby farmers” who are quick to latch onto any government program going.
But we need farmers to grow our food. As well as farmland for them to do so.
What’s the solution?
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Solution to what problem?
I have to disagree with this characterization of farmers. They work very hard. Very hard.
But the government pays them not to plant crops one season, etc.
So they’re on a form of welfare, yes.
But what would happen if they weren’t?
Farmers go under, industrialists buy those farms and plow the arable land under.
Eventually, there will be no farmers and no land on which to grow food.
I personally can live on chocolate for the rest of my life, but what about future generations? Are we going to reduce them to eating nutritious paste rather than real food?
Tell all the common man farmers “hello” from all of us!
President Trump is going to send $12 billion to farmers who will otherwise be bankrupt because of his tariffs.
Without farmers, we have no food.
Not being sarcastic here, just stating a fact - sane people would see that this is a problem.
Business has figured out how to manage the supply and demand equation for every other industry, they can figure it out for crops… How long have farm subsidies been around? How did we manage it before?
What problem? Why exactly do you suppose Trump is giving 12b to farmers?
What worked 30 years ago will no longer work today.
The world’s population is growing at a tremendous rate. Our water supply and our food supplies aren’t.
Creating a problem and then solving it with a temporary subsidy so that they don’t have to bear the full burden of it is your idea of socialism? Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay. 
