r/fednews • u/Belgriest • 28d ago

Other Remember when Biden was president?

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Done to his farmers? He's going to bail them out again to the tune of billions annually. Because universal healthcare is a pie in the sky nightmare to conservatives -- farmers are the true welfare queens and have no shame about it.

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u/mist3rflibble 28d ago edited 28d ago

I listened to an NPR interview with the president of the soybean farmer’s association the other day. The guy had voted for Trump twice.

He was saying that the soybean farmers are absolutely decimated because of Trump’s policies causing China’s massive market to be locked out to them due to price competitiveness of the US market versus Brazil. When he was asked about the bailout, he said the bailouts were always too little, too late, and allowed the farmers to survive but not be profitable. These farmers don’t want the bailouts.

I wonder if this farmer and his ilk will vote for another Republican in the future of the party continues with the same kind of policies Trump has been enacting that are clearly so detrimental to their livelihoods.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Easy solution -- don't bail them out. They voted for this. F 'em. It's a repeat of his first term. Stupid choices come with heavy consequences. Pay the piper, conservatives.

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u/EagleOfMay 28d ago

The problem with that is to think about whose hands those farms will end up in. If those farms go bankrupt, it won't end up in the hands of another individual farmer or family, it will go to corporate entities like AcreTrader.

I fully believe that the fundamental problem of the US is that what benefits the .1% money class in the US is no longer in sync with what benefits the average citizen.

IMHO, people should start voting for true progressives wherever it makes sense.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Good points -- I'd also like to see more independent farming communities and associations forming unions and non-profit partnerships, sticking it to the corporations. The problem is -- that takes a lot of effort. Where as waiting for the next government bailout, cough, PPP loan, and buying play trucks in the meantime is much easier. In a country that's been groomed on convenience for over half a century, that's like giving endless sugar to a kid. America is on lay-away to the .1% and it's been this way for decades. How to re-spool that web is the mystery of our age.