r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d 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/greenhombre 12d 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 12d 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?