r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Annoying1978 • 2d ago

Farmers want ANOTHER bailout

https://youtu.be/eNFAv4rhnMM

American farmers are facing their worst economic crisis in decades, with bankruptcies soaring and family farms at risk of disappearing. But why are taxpayers being asked to bail out farmers who voted against their own interests - again?

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 2d ago edited 1d ago

That's the problem, the farmers and ranchers continue to vote republican over and over and are expecting different results.... Otherwise known as insanity

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u/steerbell 2d ago

And Republicans keep giving them money.

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u/giveitarrest 2d ago

…so it always works out for them.
No reason to change

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 2d ago

It hasn't though, republicans regularly run farmers out of business.

Who survives is larger farmers who can demand even more subsidies.

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u/UserPrincipalName 2d ago

Who can lobby and donate ridiculous sums of money to their GoP candidates.

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 2d ago

Yeah, that's how you get subsidies from republicans. You bribe them.

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u/giveitarrest 2d ago

Also the corporate farm operations are buying them out. Win-win for billionaires and their political lackeys

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 2d ago

Exactly 💯

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u/JGR03PG 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just family farms suffer. Big corporate farms do very well. More family farms were lost under Trump 45 than the Great Depression, but the evangelical rural farmer is voting on abortion and trans fears.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 1d ago

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well stupid decisions like prioritizing voting a certain way because people you'll never meet scare you have consequences I guess.

I do think the republicans are even dumping on the corporate farmers now. I'm sure some of the larger farms were selling soybeans or beef.,,

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u/Thomasvlee 1d ago

Most farmers have more money than you realize. Them going "broke" means selling off a few assets, not losing the farm. These people want you to think there losing everything so you'll buy their products or agree to a bailout, but behind closed doors they are not hurting anywhere near enough to actually regret their vote. They are drama and welfare queens.

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 1d ago

The number of farm losses/foreclosures is a fairly objective measure of how often that happens.

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u/Thomasvlee 1d ago

Farm loses are going up, to be sure. But most farmers are not on the brink of losing their farm.

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 1d ago

I should hope not that would be like the majority of workers being on the brink of long term unemployment. We tend to get ansy when that number climbs significantly anyway.

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u/Thomasvlee 1d ago

I agree. I was just pointing out that my original point stated "most" in the same context. Not saying there are not people losing their farms but the flood on social media about it might make people think otherwise.

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u/max_465 1d ago

Yes I keep hearing that farmer suicides are up and yet there are still plenty left to complain.

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 1d ago

The farmer subsidies had to go up to offset the intentional damage the Trump administration was causing.

These people voted in this regime knowing full well that they were going to mess things up. What they thought was that they specifically would be taken care of regardless.

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u/steerbell 2d ago

Exactly.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 2d ago

Worse Democrats keep giving them money. They will never vote Democrat, they are not the mythical moderate Republicans. There are no moderate Republicans, that's like looking for nice Nazis.

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u/dadofadisaster 2d ago

I don’t know the bulwark guys seem like moderates but that’s like what 2%?

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u/bramley36 2d ago

My understanding is that the bail outs only go to the largest farms.

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u/Interesting_Ant_6990 2d ago

The bailouts go to farm suppliers not to the farms themselves. This is welfare for Bayer/monsanto types.

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u/bramley36 1d ago

the bailouts also go to lenders.

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u/Ill-Egg-491 1d ago

They want bailouts but it’s not socialism!

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u/Ok-Possibility-923 2d ago

They vote for governmentally sanctioned racism and bigotry. Nothing else matters more to them.

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u/H4RDCORE1 2d ago

Yup. And they'll keep voting for the same thing.

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u/Jamb9876 2d ago

They like being paid to not work with the tax payer giving them money. We should make some videos showing the real welfare queens in this country.

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u/Tinytommy55 2d ago

And they are vehemently against socialism. Any kind of social handout is crazy.
Except when they need help. Remember your bootstraps there fella.

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u/Zealousideal-Time-32 2d ago

No reasoning with anyone who could justify voting for Trump. No way to ever trust them either.

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u/ICK_Metal 1d ago

*MAGA farmers and ranchers

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u/Failing_at_death 8h ago

No, they quite like things this way.

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u/dajodge 2d ago

They don’t expect different results. They expect the same results and are repeatedly rewarded because they are a useful tool for fascism.

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u/Moda75 1d ago

why would they expect different results? They get the results they want. A handout. Every fucking time.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 1d ago

Actually the subsidized farmer is getting far less than if his farm is doing business independently and profitable.

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u/JGR03PG 1d ago

They benefit the most from the subsidies, since the prices they are getting are artificially higher because of the subsidies. The actual farmer should get good money for the work the do, but I think people are mad that there is farmers that are hurting until the bailouts come… which are likely delayed, so that big corporate farms can squeeze out more family farms.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 1d ago

Not sure what that means "prices they are getting are artificially higher because of subsidies"? They commit fraud by inflating their crops worth? Doesn't the market dictate the price?

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u/JGR03PG 1d ago

The government pays farmers to not farm a crop (that doesn’t go to
Market) to keep prices higher.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 1d ago

That's been a process for a long time in order to keep the soil from degrading to dust.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Leopard Spotter 1d ago

Ty east-appearance!

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u/Double_Obligation564 1d ago

they actually want the same shit they always get - government handouts