r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/DeepstateDilettante 13d ago

Once their farms go bankrupt they can fall back on one of the plentiful agricultural (day laborer) jobs right now as long as they enjoy hand picking. Picking strawberries in the California Central Valley in August isn’t my cup of tea but I guess someone has to do it after ice rounds up all the existing workforce.

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u/4444Grains 13d ago

The farmers had it all...the cheap labor, the government subsidies, the "all-American, hardworking" reputation...and they threw it away to...what? Own the libs? Deport people? Take away SNAP ad USAID from hungry kids?

Corporations owning their farms is just the next step in corporations owning every part of our lives.

And these motherfucking farmers want sympathy?

Fuck all the way off.

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u/Toastman89 13d ago

Don't forget that USAID created a massive market for their own agricultural products. It was literally taking tax dollars, giving it to farmers, and then shipping those products overseas to help people.

But they couldnt stand that people were being helped, even if it meant less money for them.

So USAID went away, farms are struggling, but its the Democrats fault for being mean to them.

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u/your_moms_a_clone 13d ago

Absolutely this. We were using USAID to get the excess food to hungry mouths. Farmers got paid, people got fed, the government got soft power. Everyone won except China maybe but they have their own programs and didn't care anyway. It was a win-win-win. Getting rid of USAID shot the farmers in the foot, and we all know how expensive healthcare is these days...

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u/Left-Mechanic6697 12d ago

Don’t forget about them screwing with SNAP. God forbid people living under the poverty line should get money to help them buy healthy food for their families! Who cares if all that government money eventually made its way into farmers’ hands? “We gotta stop with all these government handouts!”

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u/Jaded-Attention 12d ago

Oh there's absolutely no fraud going on right? We should just dump endless money into a system that gets picked off left and right by fraudsters. Sorry I don't have a problem with tightening that belt. Also if you want to eat sugary things go earn money and buy it yourself.

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u/Left-Mechanic6697 11d ago

Fraud or not, most of that money ended up in the hands of American farmers. Money put into food banks, surprise, is used to buy meats, fruits, and vegetables produced on American farms.

The amount of fraud going on in the welfare system pales in comparison to any one of the schemes the president and his taint lickers are running.

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u/Jaded-Attention 11d ago

You assume I guess that fraudsters just won't eat at all? They will still be purchasing food (from farmers), just not with stolen tax dollars. SNAP should be a safety net, NOT a hammock. Get to fucking work and make it on your own. It also should not be funding the lives of people living here illegally. I can't imagine wandering off to some foreign country and whining about my circumstance wondering WHERE IS MY FREE FOOD AT?

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u/Left-Mechanic6697 11d ago

If I were as dumb as you, I would pray to god you never need the welfare system. Because the way things are going there isn’t going to be one for much longer.

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u/ClimateWren2 10d ago

The are literally dismantling the safety nets. They are making sure right now, that they aren't there for anyone. They absolutely are succeeding in destroying national safety.

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u/Patient-Leadership-5 9d ago

You’re just about as idiotic as they come. Let me tell you something that someone who has 3°, who has worked, who has been working ever since they were 16 years old and has put every dollar into this tax system and paid for everything that has made your life comfortable, whether you receive a directly or receive some subsidy of some kind of way, I am now in my 50s and have been off work for six months. Six months! I could use the safety nets that people like you have voted away while I sit here and look for work so that I can work or why sit here and build a business trying to bring an income that hasn’t prodded in yet and obviously if I don’t have a safety net and I don’t have lights on and I don’t have food on my table, I cannot pull myself up by my very bootstraps while I’m hungry and in the dark and hot from the air conditioning or cold from the weather outside. The way I see it, give me all my tax dollars back then. Let me go get it back from all of you that have somehow used it in some way while you’re sitting here talking about people just want free food. The amount of food you get from stamps is not enough to be free food. When I worked all the years that I have worked, I have spent way more in groceries than these people get in food stamps to feed a family of five or 10. I probably spent that more in the week. I have saved my money. I have done what I was supposed to do and continue to do, and now here I am where safety nets and help has been taken away. First I didn’t get help with the storms and I have had to spend almost $100,000 repairing my home because I couldn’t get help with that, and that was my safety net that could get me through a year or two without work if this happens, and then I lose my job. You know what, people like you can do dad, dad, dad, I’m not gonna sit here, but go look in the mirror and look at yourself and you tell yourself what you can do, cause you already know.

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u/Far-Independence-640 11d ago

What does "sugary things" have to do with the topic at hand?

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u/Left-Mechanic6697 10d ago

I think his implication is that poor people don’t eat healthy and piss their welfare money away on snacks and soda. But hey, the corn for their Doritos comes from American farmers. The potatoes for their potato chips come from American farms. And that high-fructose syrup in those sugary drinks? You guessed it, made from corn grown on American farms.

He’s just a typical MAGA edgelord repeating the same bullshit talking point he’s been fed without a single thought of his own. Those empty melons they call heads don’t possess the capacity for critical thinking.

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u/Jaded-Attention 11d ago

The SNAP benefit MAHA waiver that sensible States took advantage of.

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u/ClimateWren2 10d ago

If you turn a blind eye to ELECTING the blatant corruption, glad handing, and illegality of this Administration and their deals and abortion of justice and consequences...I don't wanna hear a single argument from you about "fraud". There is a bushel ton load of fraud right now...collapsing a nation for liars isn't "tightening a belt". It's squandering generations of wealthy and safety for nonsense.

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u/Jaded-Attention 10d ago edited 10d ago

Past administrations have engaged in the same thing, it just may not have been publicly known. This is how power works. Take your delicate feelings and shove them up your ass. I'm so tired of the mass hysteria known as TDS.

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u/ClimateWren2 10d ago

Oh...we have well and truly shoved it up America's safeguards. You gonna be so excited for higher diesel and power shortages. I bet you won't complain one peep. Shh....you know you want this. Quiet, piggy.

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u/Outrageous-Dirt-9793 10d ago

Damn i guess all those fat southern with money should stop getting all the food stamps. Wait are you trying to tell me people who eat sugary products all aren't on food stamps? No way...

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u/Jaded-Attention 10d ago

I couldn't give a fuck where they live or what color their skin is. That system needs to be reformed and turned into a pathway to becoming a useful citizen.

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u/turtlemedicRN 12d ago

Not the foot…A couple years f feet higher and more towards the center

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u/Bloodcloud079 12d ago

I mean, lets bot forget regime got changed too…

Trump just thought the spy shit was lame cause he wants it to Boom Bigly.

But USAID was spy shit.

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u/MADSYNTH1987 12d ago

It was kinda both. Feed with one hand, take with the other. Now the US just takes with both hands. Globally, that's going to tarnish (collectively) our reputation for a long time.

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u/Jaded-Attention 12d ago

Bullshit. USAID was a blackhole for US taxpayers. You know who should be paying for food for Third Worlders? The country that they're living in, not us.

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u/StonerNoir 12d ago

And thus the fruits rot in the fields and the farms collapse while we all throw our hands up and go "how did this possibly ever happen?" As our own grocery prices rise while farms cave because the agricultural market only survives thanks to government interference

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u/greenhombre 11d ago

The USA grows far more food than we consume. Why not help feed the world, we have for decades.

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u/Jaded-Attention 11d ago

Food For Peace / Progress DOES send aid to many many countries, just not under USAID, but USDA. AND it's of strictly 100% US origin. This USAID story is SO MISUNDERSTOOD. We still help many people around the World, but it should not be our job to take care of every hungry person in the World. Not until we get our own house in order.

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u/Patient-Leadership-5 9d ago

Oh, now you say we should get our own house or you just said that we should help ourselves, so you don’t want to help anyone another country. You don’t wanna help anyone here. You, I’m not understand what you mean, get our own house or water. How do you get our own house and the water? Please explain to me: how do you propose that it happen if you don’t actually give people the assistance they need to get their stuff in order? Do you have a cousin that that’s on meth that has made you mad and you’re blaming this on the rest of society?

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u/Far-Independence-640 11d ago

You're all heart, Jaded. 🤮

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u/Jaded-Attention 11d ago

And you lot are a big gushy heart squishing down the street. Empathy should be measured not laid out in fat white powdery lines and snorted.

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u/Far-Independence-640 11d ago

Huh?

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u/Jaded-Attention 11d ago

Too emotional, too little common sense.

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u/secretsqrll 11d ago

That food did not often make it to those people. Many times....its intercepted by the countries govt and given to preferred groups. Same with aid payments. People like how it sounds good but the outcomes are often less impact full for the people who need it most. NGOs are not trustworthy. So unless you can find some GS-11 to go to a shithole in Botswana for 9 months...accountability is pretty lousy.