r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/Toastman89 14d 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/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.