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In reply to the discussion: 'This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt'--Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring [View all]DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)68. Farmers should have taken that into consideration
When the majority of them went to the polls and voted for trump.
Maybe they can get a job at the huge ag corp - you know, those jobs Americans don't want yet don't want to see those brown people from south of the border doing.
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question everything
Feb 2019
OP
Right? It makes no sense that food keeps getting more costly and farmers get less and less.
mahina
Feb 2019
#72
But they got only a small fraction of the assistance they were promised.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2019
#44
Maybe because it was the prior trade deals that caused the pricing issues to begin with?
Honeycombe8
Feb 2019
#45
Of course they're negative NOW. Their oxen are being gored at the moment. Trump was
Nay
Feb 2019
#62
Any politician willing to legislate hatred and death for LGBTQ, POC and women they will vote for
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2019
#51
"But hey, ya know what? I still support the tainted tangerine I proudly voted for
sprinkleeninow
Feb 2019
#4
Trade disputes over agriculture add pain to low commodity prices that have been grinding down Americ
riversedge
Feb 2019
#19
Probably but not in Kansas so much. Many Counties in western Ks went 90%+ for Trump
Bengus81
Feb 2019
#34
Thank you for your input. We need more farmers who speak from personal expericne
question everything
Feb 2019
#61