cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35684522
Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”
Perfectly good taxpayer subsidized food rotting in the ground, I sure feel great again. /s
Growing up in an ag state I was shoved propaganda left and right about how great rural states were, that cities depended on us, we were the breadbasket.
Our crops? Cattle corn and soybeans.
Cattle corn, aka feed for cattle, inedible for humans, and subsidized out the ass by the gov. So much is overproduced that they literally had to find other usages for it, which is where ethanol comes from. Subsidized corn making cheap fuel to have cars run on subsidized roads.
Soybeans, also subsidizes, and what is used is mostly exported to other countries like China.
We provided very little food to our own citizens. You listen to these rural farmers though and they’ll tell you up and down how gov payouts and leeches are a drain on society, hooboy do they hate them. Until it’s time to get their own check.
I have been known to visit some of those growers sheds, sit down and drink their beer, then call them a welfare queen.
When they get mad, I ask them how much their subsidy and crop insurance checks were the past few years?
Every fucking single one of them knows that they are parasites on the system. They just don’t want the “wrong type of people” to get welfare too.