Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
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Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
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from the video: "it's hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table"
do not forget that most of them are huge mega-corporations that own vast areas of land and don't operate based on small-families, but rather economies of scale
and also do not forget that most of these farmers probably voted republican and also that they would decry the exact support measures they're now asking for as "communism" if these support dollars would benefit somebody else.
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The vast bulk of crops grown in Arkansas are comprised of the top three: rice, soybeans, and corn. The rice and soybeans are mostly grown for export. The corn is heavily subsidized and most of it is turned into food additives like HFCS, corn starch, ethanol, etc.
These people aren't putting food on our tables, they're lining their pockets at our expense.
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from the video: “it’s hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table”
FFS, I'm so tired of hearing this kind of thing, as if people are doing this for some kind of altruistic reasons.
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those who put food on your table
They can fuck right off.
They're doing a job and running a business just like everyone else. I don't care if I eat their product or not. It's a commodity.
They've spent years voting and acting against their own interests. Maybe they shouldn't have been so fucking stupid.
Farmers are such cry babies and think they're special. They aren't. The only thing farmers have done in the US is let mega corps beat them into a ditch. If they can't do the job, someone else will.
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Amen to this. I am so tired of the sanctimony from those that happen to live in rural areas.
"Well, we grow your food".
What, you are doing it for charity or something?
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Look at all these socialists!
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I bet nearly all of them will continue voting Republican (or just stop voting altogether).
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What, are they going to vote for the people with Blah candidates or allow the purple-haired trans people to use public toilets?! Are you kidding me? What choice do they even have?
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They'll shove a fork in their eye while chanting "Let's go Brandon".
They're fucking idiots.
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Trump won Arkansas with 64% of the vote. May they get the day they voted for.
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they can't handle the winning. I think they need to keep winning
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All this winning is getting exhausting
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“In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.
Jesus Christ.
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I'll send some thoughts and prayers (since I can't afford much else these days)
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Hmm, when Trump's treason and corruption can no longer be denied, maybe we'll have an epidemic of MAGA suicides. Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.
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Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.
I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.
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Shame on you! If those poor
kidsfacists could read they would be very upset!
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“In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.
Fuck, that's rough. Guess we're gonna get dragged even more into corporate farms
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Hope they don't get a fucking dime. Cant vote to fuck the country then ask for handouts from the blue states when it does.
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Fuckem. Reap what you sow, assholes.
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US farmers are the biggest welfare queens around. They don't know how to actually earn an entire dollar by working.
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Not just the country, but literally themselves
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They watered their crops with librul tears and are now complaining that someone salted the earth. May they learn to actually think about what their vote will accomplish.
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The federal government put you there. Kinda doubt theyre gonna reverse course
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“Struggling Arkansas farmers” or MAGA bootlickers that fucked up and voted for a shifty, no-good, greasy, New York sidewinder because of some-dick complex? #fuckaroundandfinout #youdonefoundoit #gofuckyourself
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I feel for the odd person who isn't a maga muppet in that group. The rest just need to learn how to use that dildo they asked for in the election. Slide that bad boy right in you dumb sonsabitches.
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FEMA Agriculture assistance while supplies last. Maybe vote blue next time.
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Didn’t Trump say he was shutting down FEMA because the states could do a better job on their own? So let Arkansas figure out how to bail them out this time.
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Gosh, I wonder who might have done this to them.
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... And Trump will look down, and whisper:
No.
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What's the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?
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Zero, that level of rational thought makes them understand how fucked they are, at which point they kill themselves. Or sell the farm to a megacorp while they're still above water on their loans
And I'm not joking about the suicide thing. There's suicide hotline programs specifically for farmers realizing they're going to lose everything, which of course have been cut
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In the 00s my uncle was in a position where Monsanto was suing him for not holding up his end of the contract, because he had a bad crop year. Anyway, my grandparents bailed him out by financing a lawyer who settled for him, and it really didn't fix the problem at all. He still lost his farm, my grandparents were no longer wealthy because they kept trying to help him, and the uncle died a couple years later to cancer (probably driven by stress). They bailed him out because they were afraid he'd kill himself over the farm, and it took him out anyway
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Anyone remember things like Farm Aid in the 80s?
I think they'll learn SWEET FUCK ALL.
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Never gonna happen
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People act like these guys are going to get left out in the cold. In Trump's first term when his trade war with China fucked over the soybean farmers the government bailed them out.
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Yeah, but Donny 2 Inches needs to keep that money for himself now.
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screw them Trump boot lickers
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This is a tragedy! Monsanto won't be able to squeeze them for more money if they go out of business! Think of the large corporations!
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Monsanto will just buy their farms for pennies on the dollar
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Monsanto was bought out by Bayer a whole back. It no longer exists.
Since Bayer is a larger company with more leverage against farmers, they are squeezing them harder than Monsanto ever dreamed of.
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They could self deport and get a cool thousand dollars !
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There's an actual prayer at the end of that article.
Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting
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Hundreds of farmers ask struggling federal government to save them.
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lol no
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Fuck no you get nothing!
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lol, get wrecked nerds
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As someone from rural Arkansas who in my early life was around these farmers and their families quite a bit until I was in my mid twenties. I can tell you they are some of the most obstinate people you can meet. They regularly got welfare in the form of subsidies and then talked trash about anyone needing welfare or food stamps. Some of those people were their workers.
I've watched them buy new vehicles and trash them in just a few years when they could have taken care in the fields with them. Instead they would twist them like pretzels pulling and pushing on farm equipment instead of thinking things through. They didn't care because they would be getting some graft from the government to pay for a new one.
So no they don't need help. Unless it mental health. They will never vote in their best interests. They will continue to believe they are better than everyone around them. They will of course whine like toddlers when they don't get their way.