Posted on 05/12/2019 5:29:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
What else can we shore up in the US by throwing money at it, and having 80% siphoned off by lying and criminal politicians?
Agriculture doesn’t begin to count for one in 10 jobs nationwide—unless I suppose you count restaurant and grocery store workers!
And there is no special reason that agriculture needs government investment. If new tech and products are economically viable, then those who develop and market them will be rewarded in the free market system as in any other sector.
What we need to do, which is the opposite of what Kushner is apparently doing with Trump’s immigration plan, is to stop with importing cheap labor for it. That more than anything is what is retarding ag’s investment in tech. And without capital investments, individual jobs don’t become more valuable and more highly rewarded.
There is no good reason for us to be importing fruits and vegetables from the poison cesspool that is China. Notice, we never our produce marked as such—and people wouldn’t buy it if they knew China to be the source.
Again, we over-trade with China. We should be growing and delivering our food locally!
Tractor monkeys: learn to code.
> Flooding of one million acres cost the economy $12.5 billion
$12,500 / acre.
You are just a nasty, bitter little man, aren’t you.
After centuries of agriculture being a bedrock of American society and the national economy, the country’s farming sector now finds itself suffering from insufficient governmental investment. This has affected all facets of the industry, including a research and development (R&D) arm that desperately requires capital to pursue technological innovations in the field.
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I won’t discuss it until the government stops forcing me to put corn in my gas tank.
I like to point out hypocrisy when ever I see it. The Right deserves it as much as the left.
Government “investment” disproportionately favors those who can pay for DC lobbyists — mainly big corporate agricultural concerns.
Government regulations favor large corporate farms over small family farms. Estate taxes cause small family farms to have to be sold to pay death taxes.
Manufacturing is what made America an dynamic economic powerhouse and not agriculture. Agriculture is ghetto.
Cotton was king for over 100 years. It gave us our start.
We’ve got to love our farmers. They are vital.
Taxpayer dollars poured into farming is not s solution.
The drop-off in investment has come at a time when farmers are struggling to make ends meet.
The absence of real numbers tells me that the R&D has likely not dropped in real terms, just that all other government spending has skyrocketed.
Exporting agri goods an importing durable goods is the road to serfdom. This is the type of mercantilism that started the Revolutionary war.
Fixed it.
Farmers survived for millennia without government handouts; they can do it again. All those do is disrupt markets and create a cycle of dependency that deepens every passing year.
Yes, because eating is just so-so-yesterday.
Funny if the USA can close a factory and import toaster ovens then the USA can certainly import the grain to make the toast. Tractor monkeys need to compete with the global grain market JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER AMERICAN. Or they could learn to code.
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