Morgan wrote:
What does being a framer have to do with anything?
I'm glad things are working out for you.
As far as the farmers, which I am not, I don't believe many would agree with you, at least not according to what I've read and heard on the news, and as for me being clueless, if the farmers are doing so great why do you think it's necessary for Trump to come to their aid.
The Trump administration is coming to the aid of farmers hurt by its own hard-line trade policies, announcing Tuesday that it will make an estimated
$12 billion in government assistance available, including direct payments to growers.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/24/631953880/trump-administration-to-provide-farmers-12-billion-to-offset-tariffsThe money comes after farmers, especially soybean growers, have felt the brunt of retaliatory tariffs placed on agriculture by China and other nations that the Trump administration has penalized with tariffs on imports.
So now where the farmers were doing fine, they now need a bailout at the cost of 12 million us taxpayers, so I guess we can all thank the Trumpet for blowing his horn once again.
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Every business and even unions have their cry babies and farming is no different and these are the ones that news folk scourer the country side looking for so they can throw it back to Trump !
Actually the markets have held up very well considering the tariffs placed on them !
Lets go back to the grain embargo Jimmy Carder placed on Russia where the grain prices dropped the limit for the better part of a week now that was what almost broke me as I sell this yrs crop the following yr .
Due to the embargo Russia could not buy one single kernel of grain where as China can buy any amount of grain but it will cost them more one of the reasons the prices have held up .
One of the main reasons we are seeing low prices as the fact we have had back to back high yields the past 7 yrs if you were to drive thru the Midwest farming communities you would see at all the grain buy facilities have millions of grain piled on the ground under tarp and many of these piles are old crop from previous yrs !
You cry about the 12 B aid which in part I'm sure was due to the Demo crybabies who in reality could care less about farmers but it was a rallying cry against Trump !
No dounbt is Obama had done the same thing you'd not said one word about it just like all the other Trump haters .
I can't think of any time that I've seen you cry about the huge deficits we have with China the real non crying farmers all know something had to be done about it and no one did anything about it till Trump came along and said this isn't fair and it's unacceptable !
I hear many cry about the subsidies in the farm bill which unknown to them actually Food Stamps is the biggest piece of the pie that has nothing to do with farmers !
So when it's all said and done you really don't care about farmers and what they go thru with in good times and bad you love to have something to cry about against Trump
It has probably never entered you mind that you as well as every person living in America spends the lowest amount of their pay check for the food we eat all because to a small amount of subsidies paid to farmers this in because the politicians don't want to hear complaints from Morgan and others about the high price of food !
Farmers income rises and falls and we have to adjust most of the time it's beyond our control but we are a hardy bunch of independent individuals who rise up every day to provide food and fiber for not only America but for the rest of the world !
Farmers have little or no control of market prices we are told what they will pay us and we act accordingly some times the prices are well below our cost of production so those that can will hold grain in order to get a better price later in the year .
So in closing I say again you and the biggest part of the POP here in America are clueless as to where and to what extent farmers go so you can have cheap food prices at the store !