| white shadow - 4/4/2020 15:41
You are responsible for making sure your farm survives when "the crap really hits the fan"--- not the Government. You are accountable for management --not the Government. Why are you entitled to survive when downtown business don't have such Governmental back stops. Your very correct about the dirty little tricks other countries do to protect their agriculture at the expense of USA Agriculture. Currency manipulation is devastating to production Agriculture. Maybe, the correct line of attack is to attack those bad practices at the level they occur, instead of just giving us cash to "even the score". When in history has the land not been planted. Socialism will push our production off shore way faster than Capitalism will----because we will lack the capital (human and monetary), the skills and competitiveness to feed our population. Socialist Governmental policy will extinguish the fire in our belly's to feed our people---let someone else do it.
You don't think downtown businesses receive subsidies? I bet you think free trade is a real thing also.
We've filed WTO grievances plenty of times against other countries and won but the WTO is a toothless organization
Besides New Zealand and Australia the US has the least socialist ag policy in the world and if you want to take away the gov money then you have to take away a lot of the gov regulations and the bureaucratic bs we have to put up with in Ag today
Also our exporters have to be willing to get down and dirty to compete with the rest of the world |