Posted on 05/05/2019 6:06:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers.
“I think a farmer that produces the food we eat may be almost as important as some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy,” Sanders said during a campaign event in Osage, a town of fewer than 4,000 people. “Those of us who come from rural America have nothing to be ashamed about, and the time is long overdue for us to stand up and fight for our way of life.”
Sanders’ plan expands on themes that have been central to his presidential campaign in Iowa since the start, including his emphasis on rural America and pledge to take on and break up big corporations.
During his Sunday speech, Sanders outlined the dire circumstances confronting rural America — population decline, school and hospital closures and rising addiction and suicide rates in many rural counties nationwide — as the impetus for his policy.
His plan includes a number of antitrust proposals, including breaking up existing agriculture monopolies and placing a moratorium on future mergers by big agriculture companies. He would also ban “vertically integrated” agribusinesses — companies that control multiple levels of production and processing of a product. …
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Hah! You finally found Bernie's skill ... he's a walking manure spreader. He does it all the time.
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Again, Bernie is not about to make them more capitalistic. And he fully intends to absorb more small farms into the giant collective he intends to make out of the bigger entities.
Well, the last one he can certainly do, but only in the verbal sense.
How dense are you? I know Bernie’s not. I only agree so far as to the monopolistic elements needing to be broken up—not with Bernie’s overall policies in this or, likely, anything else.
I’m merely pointing out that he isn’t saying what the media claims he’s saying. And thus, there’s nothing to agree with when it comes to him.
Given the character of people back then, someone like Sanders would never have been able to seize any reins of power even at local level. He would have been utterly unheard of in places like Philadelphia or (later) DC.
Ridiculous. How the media spins anything isn’t a reason to agree or disagree with an element of what a pol actually says.
Do quote what exactly he said that you’re agreeing with. And demonstrate how it is in any way truthful.
Well, have to wait until the nineteenth century for stuff like psychoanalysis. The eighteenth, someone like Sanders would have run afoul of many moral norms that warranted some kind of judicial punishment.
Again, ridiculous. You keep trying to somehow knock down my simple, legitimate observation. I don’t know what your problem is.
And speaking of logical fallacies, beyond refuting what I didn’t even suggest, you then moved on to claiming that because the media misrepresents Bernie’s view, I shouldn’t acknowledge the part of his perspective that I agree with—while I also point out the part I disagree with.
I’d take a look in the mirror if I were you. You’re trying to gnaw on the wrong bone here.
You’re the offensive poster here attacking me repeatedly because you don’t trust the media’s account of the anti-monopoly elements to his rural policy. I’m no socialist and I don’t like Bernie or his hypocrisy. But that doesn’t mean when he says something true or worthy it can’t be noted.
If you don’t believe the media reports, check out his position on the monopolistic corporate ag influence he is addressing as posted in detail on his website:
https://berniesanders.com/revitalizing-rural-america/
Attacking? First I’ve heard of mild disagreement being called such a thing. Please calm down.
Please just go away.
#10 He orders them to stop growing food.....
We will be like every other socialist country.... starving.
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