“The USDA expects direct payments to farmers under the program to total $9.567 billion, with around $7.3 billion for soybean farmers, the hardest hit from the trade war. The USDA program includes an additional $1.2 billion in food purchases, and around $200 million to develop foreign markets, bringing the total estimated aid to just below $11 billion.”
Our president is really good at spending taxpayer money on tons of things (as our debt skyrockets). Maybe he shouldn’t have given himself and his kids a massive tax cut.
Any moment now, Tea Party rallies will materialize.
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I think what hardcore Republicans are thinking is this…
“Please, God, let us pacify the farmers until something gives with the trade wars. We can’t lose their votes.”
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This trade war doesn’t seem to be going so well.I thought Donald said they were easy to win?
If we are propping up our farmers with more tax-payer money, does that mean that we’ve lost that war on trade?
If so, that’s the first war we’ve lost in a long time. Figures that a bumbling idiot like Trump would end our winning streak.
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tnt
December 18, 2018, 1:35pm
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I remember when ‘conservatives’ here were against government bailouts.
Not sure you understand that the tarrif impact on farmers is a result of national security needs … remember? Aluminum and steel?
So the farmers are fighting for us. Just like soldiers… they need to be paid. Not a bailout.
Jezcoe:
I have honestly come to believe that the argument of “Socialism” and “ Big Government” comes from the feeling that someone, somewhere might be getting something that is undeserved so therefore ■■■■ them. Oh… I am getting something? Well I paid into the system so I deserve it but those guys are just leeches… ■■■■ them. The rich? Yeah… they deserve it but the people who will actually benefit… they don’t deserve it… ■■■■ them.
And on and on and on.
Of course you do. And that is how you lost the 2016 election.
Jezcoe
December 18, 2018, 2:04pm
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The entire Trump campaign was populist. It was about Socialism for the right kind of people. The “Forgotten Man”
Screw everyone else because they are screwing you.
Be afraid… be very afraid but Daddy Trump can fix it all.
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Jezcoe:
The entire Trump campaign was populist. It was about Socialism for the right kind of people. The “Forgotten Man”
Screw everyone else because they are screwing you.
Be afraid… be very afraid but Daddy Trump can fix it all.
Yeah… keep saying that. Keep spitting on “the forgotten man”. That will be a good strategy for 2020.
Jezcoe:
I have honestly come to believe that the argument of “Socialism” and “ Big Government” comes from the feeling that someone, somewhere might be getting something that is undeserved so therefore ■■■■ them. Oh… I am getting something? Well I paid into the system so I deserve it but those guys are just leeches… ■■■■ them. The rich? Yeah… they deserve it but the people who will actually benefit… they don’t deserve it… ■■■■ them.
And on and on and on.
Yes. It is related to the concept of Herrenvolk democracy. Political power, voting rights, resources, redistributive benefits, “big government,” etc.–is fine, in principle, just so they go to the right kind of people.
vaard
December 18, 2018, 2:39pm
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Trump is destroying the farmers ability to make a living so they are dependent on government handouts to ensure they vote republican…
Just more brainwashing to keep them on the republican plantation…
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Jezcoe:
Identity politics.
Advocacy for Illegal Immigrants … identity politics.
■■■■■ hat marches… identity politics
Congressional Black Caucus…identity politics
Etc
Jezcoe
December 18, 2018, 4:35pm
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Call_me_Ishmael:
Jezcoe:
Identity politics.
Advocacy for Illegal Immigrants … identity politics.
■■■■■ hat marches… identity politics
Congressional Black Caucus…identity politics
Etc
All politics are identity politics.
You are starting to get it.
I though Republican hated bailouts?
Chris
December 18, 2018, 4:58pm
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Call_me_Ishmael:
Glad I’m a Democrat!
Do you vote for Democrats?? I am registered as an Independent, but I vote for both Republicans and Democrats.
I’ll be voting in the Democrat primaries. So… yes.