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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho believes that any of that $12 billion will go to actual farmers?
This money is a bailout for big ag so their earnings don't take a nose dive. I don't believe for a minute that it will be used to actually help farmers.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)to small family farms - not too much I suspect
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Soybean crops planted in ledger books, bank on it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Heard the Two big Hog Raisers,who BTW gave millions to the Trump and Ryan Campaign Funds,are going to have a mega payday.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)I just read yesterday, they are one of the major contributors to Devin Nunes' campaign. The hog industry is dirty from the top down.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)District is a Dairy District for the most part. My guess is,PPC dump big bucks on Committee Chairs. Again,the two Mega Hog Operators are a couple of slimy players. The one owns the largest Paying Company here in Nevada .
MissMillie
(38,562 posts).
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)The point is to make the farmers think he's doing something for them.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts).
I'm just asking for a fraction of a percent of the kickback money.
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dawg
(10,624 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)make no mistake. Those corps are then going to make generous "campaign donations" to the republicans - and the American taxpayers will have been screwed out of another $12 billion by the freaking age-old republican welfare-for-corportions scheme.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)The farmer is just the middle man.
kentuck
(111,104 posts)I had read.
onecent
(6,096 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)DFW
(54,410 posts)Too bad the administrative costs will total around $11,999,999,990.