In my work, I often have to deal with farmers. many who inevitably bitch about government regulations, while at the same time they are totally happy with getting government handouts. While I am in sympathy with the smaller family owned farms getting hammered from all directions, you can bet that the bigly majority of Dotard’s $12B handouts will be going to corporate agriculture.
The following database tracks $349 billion in farm subsidies from commodity, crop insurance, disaster programs and conservation payments paid between 1995 and 2016
Now that Putin has shown the world who the alpha dog is, he doesn’t have to take Trump up on his invitations. It’s not just a dog-eat-dog world. It’s a dog-doesn’t-return-dog’s-phone-calls world.
What was it Jefferson said about trembling for his country? Some cruelties have extended so far that they’ve transcended all forgiveness.
Anyway, this miraculous $12 billion is said to come from the Commodity Credit Corporation but, actually, all that entity does is to borrow the money from Treasury and then disburse it as instructed by USDA using direct payments, purchases, loans, and other transactions.
Like any war, a trade war is “easy” to “win” if other people have to make all the sacrifices.
So this is “Food Stamps for Farmers”? But we’ll never get them back to their huts, in those “sh!thole counties” (in Iowa)…
once they’ve drank deep from that TrumpFarmWelfare teat!!
That response by the Russians could explain Trump’s recent shift in his Twitter rants, now claiming the Russians have every intention of helping the Democrats win in the mid-terms… because, WITCH HUNT! There was no meddling! I mean, collusion! I mean, no… um… SQUIRREL!
(Sadly, in this case, the squirrel is Iran, and the most craven expression of warlike rhetoric (aka adolescent hissy fit) I’ve ever seen from a President, was unleashed by Trump on Twitter. In response to… what exactly? “Twitter Diplomacy” is no way to manage complex issues like international relations.)
He figures this time he’ll get the praise—that was in the report—because he’s doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. That second part I’m just guessing on but with a high degree of confidence.
