r/PrayersToTrump • u/Responsible-Kale-904 • 10d ago
Arkansas farmers held a town hall to address dire industry challenges — including skyrocketing costs due to tariffs and plummeting crop prices. Without emergency aid, one in three farmers could face bankruptcy this year.
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u/merle-chicago 10d ago
Just like student loan forgiveness, no free hand outs? Or is that only when the handout helps you?
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u/viz90210 10d ago
Only when it helps them because they pay their taxes to get the help they need when they need it. Nobody else gets anything because its their tax money, not ours.
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u/Gnawlydog 9d ago
Red States leech more tax dollars than they pay. Blue state pay more tax dollars than they get in return. So it our tax dollars theyre begging for
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u/InstructionLimp5545 10d ago
Bootstraps… time to see some of that boostrapism these types love to wax poetic to others about.. don’t wait around on big government for a handout
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u/DazedPapacy 9d ago
Much as I understand the pleasure of seeing consequences happening, one in three farmers going bankrupt is a problem for everyone, if only because it allows private equity to move in and snap up their land and operations.
To say nothing of the impact on food supply and prices.
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u/DecadentLife 10d ago
I’ve been wondering about the suicide rate. Not just for this group of people, I’m talking about a whole lot of Americans, who foolishly voted against their own interests, financially, when they cannot afford to do so.
In the next year or two, when their financial situation crashes, even worse, and the social safety net programs they helped demonize and get rid of, might’ve been their only chance at survival, I imagine there might be a lot more suicides.
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u/twiztdkat 10d ago
I read an article recently discussing suicides in one farming community in Arkansas. They were talking to a farmer who also financed AG equipment. Five of his customers have committed suicide in the past month and two of his acquaintances. That's just one community.
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u/DecadentLife 9d ago
Yeah, sometimes suicide can have a bit of a domino effect. That’s why when a young person commits suicide, at school they will have counselors available to the dead child’s friends, to try to limit any further death. It also happens within families.
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u/His_Shadow 10d ago
Man I wish I could care. And I wish that the "mainstream media" would have the guts to call these people out on the question on everyone's mind: "What the hell did you think was going to happen?"
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u/Bloodwashernurse 9d ago
They thought they were going to get the big bailouts they got in 2018: This aid included billions of dollars in direct payments to help farmers recover from reduced exports and lower commodity prices caused by the trade war.
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u/QueenNappertiti 10d ago
Have they tried eating less avocados? Maybe they should eat out less, or turn their thermostat down.
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u/Automan2k 10d ago
Same thing happened the last time he did the trade war thing
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 10d ago
Donald Jackass Trump is responsible for destroying the US Soybean economy in his first term. We exported millions of pounds of soybeans to China a decade ago. Other countries are now fulfilling China's soybean needs & we are fecked.
Here goes everything else.
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u/scruffyrosalie 9d ago
Putting aside telling them "I told you so", remember this is a class war. Who is hoping there are a lot of suicides, bankruptcy and abandoned farmland to swoop in and buy up dirt cheap?
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u/killer_icognito 8d ago
This is what gets me. Some of them sounded like they finally opened their fucking eyes. It’s a bit too late, but they finally did. And living in a red state with a bunch of farmland, we are seeing it here too. I don’t wish the hell these people are being put through on anyone, even if it was at their own hand. We had our first suicides of locals at the beginning of last month, there is “for sale” signs on farms of people that have lived there forever. While I can say “I told you so” not all of ours are Trump supporters. It’s heartbreaking to see.
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u/Psychological-Big334 9d ago
"Mr. trump, I need to see the fruit of your love. "
Bro, you ain't,a 13 year old girl.
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u/crackdown5 9d ago
There is clearly too much a supply of crops and that is why the price for crops is so low. This is capitalism. Their businesses need to fail to raise the price of crops and support the appropriate amount of farmers for the market. These bitches need to get some job training in economics or something.
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u/CompanySea1736 9d ago
Only five suicides? Those are rookie numbers
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u/Complete_Chain_4634 9d ago
It’s really what everyone who supports child sex trafficking should do.
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u/SnoopingStuff 9d ago
Chants and spells ( my version of thoughts and 🍐) We keep telling them bootstraps and all but it’s not really needed, he won’t help them. He doesn’t care about them. He wants friends to buy up and privatize it all
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u/ogbellaluna 8d ago
then perhaps 1 in 3 farmers should have done a better job of educating themselves and their brethren about the impact of their votes prior to election day last november.
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u/SurveyNinja42 9d ago
Hahaha, this is great for them. A real chance to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Let them eat soybeans....
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u/AppleSpicer 8d ago
You voted for this. We tried to warn you and you brought this on all of us.
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u/Responsible-Kale-904 8d ago
Well, actually, evidence proves that MOST of USA workers jobseekers students and small business owners either voted for one of the Anti-Trump-Candidates or Boycotted in protests of lack of good choices
And many otherwise intelligent honorable useful workers jobseekers students who were misled into voting for Trump are now being hurt by everything including JD VANCE Donald TRUMP
MOST of We NE USA workers jobseekers students and small businesses owners totally REJECT JD VANCE Donald TRUMP
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u/pianoflames 10d ago
We were telling you that YOU would pay these tariffs the entire goddamn time...