I feel rural white people's sense of abandonment but....

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bundee1

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Please unite around the issues and do something about it. I see it here where i live. I understand the sense of neglect and the impression (perhaps real) that only minorities are getting help but blame the right people.
I see the rich farmers come in with 5k cash to buy tractors. They're the ones Who have a voice in politics. Who do you think is voting to keep things the way they are?

Rural America confronts a new class divide
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE
Farms that once generated wealth for entire communities are now creating a new class of superfarms, which are concentrating wealth and income at the top.


http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0730/Rural-America-confronts-a-new-class-divide


These are the people voting against the white rural poor. Wake the fuck up.

 
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bundee1

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For the most part, locals like the Milners don’t blame big farmers. After all, it’s hard to criticize those whose hard work has been bolstered by good fortune, even though they may have been born into a land-rich family. Instead, it’s Hillary Clinton or President Obama who are the main targets of bitter complaints.
 
bluntmassa1

bluntmassa1

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If you really want to buy GMO food full of pesticides and herbicides as well as meat full of hormones and antibiotics have at it. If not, buy local.
 
Ace Yonder

Ace Yonder

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I think it's funny that farmers, the beneficiaries of America's most generous subsidies (literally $20 billion annually in free, undeserved money), are the ones who are complaining that minorities are receiving too much government assistance.
 
sharptater

sharptater

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Farmers feed people. Most people wont or dont know how to do that themselves. I don't agree with the gmo or pesticides and all that, but without farmers lots of people would starve. What about the people that make millions/billions for stupid shit like making smart phones or professional athletes. Pointless imo. You can live without those things how long are you gonna live without food? And those people getting money from government to buy food that the farmers grow and do nothing for it. Yea I think the farmers should get a break. Without them we would all starve.
 
Ace Yonder

Ace Yonder

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sharptater said:
Farmers feed people. Most people wont or dont know how to do that themselves. I don't agree with the gmo or pesticides and all that, but without farmers lots of people would starve. What about the people that make millions/billions for stupid shit like making smart phones or professional athletes. Pointless imo. You can live without those things how long are you gonna live without food? And those people getting money from government to buy food that the farmers grow and do nothing for it. Yea I think the farmers should get a break. Without them we would all starve.
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First, there would still be farmers if we didn't bend over backwards for them, there would just be fewer megafarms and more smaller local ones. Secondly, no we wouldn't. We produce so much excess food it's disgusting. We throw away enough food to feed just about everyone on the fucking planet. People aren't starving for lack of food production, they are starving because we drive prices for food up to artificially high levels to make farmers more money. During the great depression, when people were starving to death for real, the government slaughtered cattle and burned corn to drive the price of food up to placate farmers who complained about lost income. Not to mention the damage that cattle farming and the like does to the environment, from methane to groundwater pollution. And when we try to take away even a little bit of the undue charity that has been heaped upon them forever, they bitch and moan and take land hostage like the fucktarded inbred Cliven Bundy types. People who grow their own food aren't even allowed to collect their own rainwater in some states, yet farmers get free water and land completely on the taxpayers' dime. It's bullshit.
 
Wilderb

Wilderb

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There is a hell of a difference in a "family" farm and a "factory" farm. That doesn't mean that a family can't own a "factory" farm.
Most of the subsidies go to large farms. Not that much gets to the small farms.
The small farmer will soon be a thing of the past because the "industry" is controlled by corporations.
They control who you sell your milk and grain to. Big boys get all the best. They control everything.
Farming is a great way to grow up and raise a family. Or was.
 
MrRoboto

MrRoboto

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Ace Yonder said:
I think it's funny that farmers, the beneficiaries of America's most generous subsidies (literally $20 billion annually in free, undeserved money), are the ones who are complaining that minorities are receiving too much government assistance.
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SNAP is 80%ish of the farm bill
 
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