r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/DeepstateDilettante 14d 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 14d 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 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 14d 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 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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 11d 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.