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She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
NBC News | Comcast ^ | March 22, 2025 | By Shannon Pettypiece (D-NBC)

Posted on 03/22/2025 5:51:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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1 posted on 03/22/2025 5:51:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sign...keep trying AP. This lady will be OK. However, with this pathetic try to defend a corrupt gubmit, you won’t.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 5:53:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Now that’s a real truck. Hope they make it, as fuel and fertilizer costs will come down.


3 posted on 03/22/2025 5:55:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Saw NBC and stopped reading.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 5:56:32 AM PDT by daler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

could hire Americans instead of flying in foreigners.


5 posted on 03/22/2025 5:57:17 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lol at these daily “voter betrayed” stories.

Must be the AP talking point of the week.

Yesterday it was fishermen wanting gubmint money.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 5:57:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should all of us pay for this woman’s bad business plan? If she can’t make money, sell it to someone who can!


7 posted on 03/22/2025 5:58:01 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC (Nothing But Crap) “News”
Suddenly The Lying, Dying Fake News Liberal Media - NO Lie They Won’t Tell wants to practice “Journalism”, finding a few people supposedly hurt by Trump policies.
You know it was much easier to find Angle Moms during F*ck Pedo José Xiden’s Reign of Error but I don’t recall a single story by NBC or the rest of the LibTaint media.


8 posted on 03/22/2025 5:59:24 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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Wish I could get $400K of somebody else’s money to run a business with.

Earn your own damn money...you bunch of grifters.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 5:59:53 AM PDT by Spaceman61
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Then, last year, bad weather wiped out much of her crop.

That's farming, toots. Always has been, always will be. If you can't make it through years like this without Socialism, perhaps you should examine your farming abilities.

10 posted on 03/22/2025 6:00:39 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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Exactly.


11 posted on 03/22/2025 6:00:52 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Free money from the government!!

The farm has been in her family for generations

Seriously, lady - your grandpa would be ashamed.

12 posted on 03/22/2025 6:03:35 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently, she wasn’t listening to Tru.ps 4 year speeches, about cutting government.


13 posted on 03/22/2025 6:05:18 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Doesn’t look like any of them have missed a meal.


14 posted on 03/22/2025 6:07:29 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

EXACTLY.(P)
This poor farmer happens to be a multi-millionaire. She lacks the business skills necessary to manage a farm covering two square miles, but rather than accepting responsibility she whines that American taxpayers somehow owe her.


15 posted on 03/22/2025 6:09:28 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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Overseas workers?! At $5 an hour I’ll bet. There are Americans that will do the job. Aren’t there?


16 posted on 03/22/2025 6:10:53 AM PDT by albie (U)
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Yep, it’s not like they don’t have collateral for a loan, the land and farm have been in the family for generations. From the looks of the picture, her hand her family could use a little physical labor themselves.


17 posted on 03/22/2025 6:11:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Some of the commenters here missed the point: this farmer was awarded a grant, and she acted on that finding to "pull up her bootstraps" after a bad year. How does this differ from homeowners depending on FEMA? I'll tell you one difference: FEMA didn't make a promise, it just paid lunch money to disaster victims.

So, from where I sit, the US government is acting in bad faith to a businessperson who got caught in a crossfire between liberal and conservative ideologies. This is a US Citizen (I assume, based on the claim of multi-generation ownership) running a tax-paying business, and not some grifter or foreigner.

I do hope the Department of Agriculture revisits this grant.

18 posted on 03/22/2025 6:15:10 AM PDT by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Why the sled in the summertime?


19 posted on 03/22/2025 6:21:38 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should Americans be funding her farm to hire non-Americans?!?


20 posted on 03/22/2025 6:23:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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