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In reply to the discussion: USDA considering economic aid for farmers this fall, says secretary [View all]Bengus81
(9,351 posts)28. By 2020 the Trump admin had paid farmers a total of $32 BILLION in subsidies
I will FUCKING guarantee this next round of FAT subsidy checks will be MORE than what they will strip from Medicaid in it's first year. You know that "gotta save money so Medicaid gets GUTTED" thing.
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USDA considering economic aid for farmers this fall, says secretary [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Monday
OP
Family farms make up 95% of farms in the US. So yeah...they'll be getting yet ANOTHER check
Bengus81
Yesterday
#26
Small family farms, not the huge acreage, corporate farms with multiple locations, owned by families.
quaint
Yesterday
#33
Let me get this straight they voted for the psychopath that promised them the moon................and then
turbinetree
Monday
#12
You can't expect the people who caused the problem to solve the problem. They won't, but we know that.
twodogsbarking
Monday
#13
Destroy the market through protectionist policy, then subsidize the losers with government checks
Prairie Gates
Monday
#16
All neoliberalism is is unbridled capitalism with a few social policies - very few.
mdbl
Yesterday
#31
Who didn't call this bailout months and months ago? I did when they shit canned USAID.
Bengus81
Yesterday
#25
Rinse, Repeat. These foolish farmers will hoover up that public cash as they wail
travelingthrulife
Yesterday
#34
The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION
Mysterian
20 hrs ago
#41