Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35684522

Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”

  • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    13 hours ago

    Them. They see your pattern continuing.

    Imagine if the government paid you to sit on your ass instead of going to work.

    And since your income is no longer tied to any sense of production, you fudge your number a little and end up better off being on welfare than working full time.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      Maybe Monsanto or somebody might get bailed out, but smaller farmers won’t get a single penny out of the GOP.

      • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        We’re seeing that play out in Arkansas, as this year family farmers are either driven off their farms (some after 6 generations) or are committing suicide quickly. One of my friends knew a farmer that killed himself last night. They’re really thinking the feds are coming to save them, instead of forcing them off the land so it can be purchased by conglomerates.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Listen, there are two ways things can be. A diverse set of farms with less than 100 acres total each, or entire regions of millions of acres dominated singularly by massive corporations.

          Small farmers exist, and mom and pop farmers are very real, even if it is inherently quite exclusive.