Posted on 12/28/2018 10:16:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America’s farmers. Fresh off the passage of the farm bill, which reauthorized agriculture, conservation and safety net programs, the Agriculture Department last week announced a second round of direct payments to growers hardest hit by President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
Then parts of the government shut down.
The USDA in a statement issued last week assured farmers that checks would continue to go out during the first week of the shutdown. But direct payments for farmers who haven’t certified production, as well as farm loans and disaster assistance programs, will be put on hold beginning next week, and won’t start up again until the government reopens. […]
Although certain vital USDA programs will remain operational in the short term, that could change if the shutdown lasts for more than a few weeks.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, helps feed roughly 40 million Americans. According to the USDA, eligible recipients are guaranteed benefits through January. Other feeding programs, including WIC, which provides food aid and nutrition counseling for pregnant women, new mothers and children, and food distribution programs on Indian reservations, will continue on a local level, but additional federal funding won’t be provided. School lunch programs will continue through February. …
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Fake news.
Good.
Goodness comrades, i hope this doesn’t hurt our next 5 year plan. Wonder how farming would work in a capitalist society?
So I wonder.....with all this cheap labor......why in the heck do farmers need any subsidies? Why can't they make it work with free market solutions? Why is most of the land being bought up or rented by conglomerates?
What does bother me is there will never be any recall or mention when previous government shut downs comparison impacts get reviewed over the impact they had. Of this;
Not dare refer to the most costly and disgraceful results from a “shutdown” that happened during Nixon’s presidency. Caused by the democrats refusal to stand by the Vietnamese effort to remain independent by refusing them air support and supplemental funding of arm supplies which would have prevented that loss and that humiliating disgraceful evacuation of our Saigon embassy.
Which quickly then resulted in a multitude of Vietnamese being slaughtered and the sacrifices of thousands of our armed forces paying with their lives assisting them in their fight for freedom disgraced.
While there might be a parallel drawn to the recent decision to pull our troops out of the nation building quagmire known as Syria. Those media resources doing so will be the same ones who supported the ignominious Vietnamese abandonment using the same hue and cry of no nation building (Which we were not doing. We were asked to help. Although JFK expanded it into that by the removal of President Diem.
This is the usual Chicken Little reporting that is nauseatingly familiar.
Meanwhile, buried in the news is the report that for the first time in history China will import American rice.
Did anyone notice that the 4th Wednesday of the month passed and everyone still got their Social Security payments? That’s right, and next month, cost of living increases as well!
The farming industry need one big giant reset.
Blame the Schumer Shutdown. Start that meme people - everywhere.
When did the Ass. Press ever give a **** about farmers?
This brings up the question again for the last 80 years. Why are we stuffing money into farmers’ pockets?
It’s the Fabian way of creating collective farming, of course.
Yes it does!
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