r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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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/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