Isn't Trump's cash payment of $12 billion to farmers straight up Socialism??!?!?!

[Yavin4]

Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2018, 01:02 PM - Edit history (1)

Why isn't this called "Socialism"? Someone please explain. Thank you.

--Edited to correct the amount given to farmers.

[lame54]

1. Trump socialism - spread the word

[spanone]

2. it's $12 Billion.

[Lotusflower70]

3. Hmmm

Well it's Trump so it can't be socialism according to Trump humpers. He created a problem in order to try to solve it in time for midterms.

[aikoaiko]

4. NPR reported that it was a depression era program --- is Trump now an FDR follower?

[Hoyt]

5. It's not "socialism" when mainly white wingers get it, or so they think.

[jcgoldie]

10. Right if entitlements go to white people...

We don't even call it welfare.. DUH!

[Hoyt]

17. I swear. Decades ago I worked for a state Medicaid program. White wingers would apply

when they were really sick and had nothing for care. They'd say crud like, "I'm not like those other people (with a hateful look on their face)." It was tough biting my tongue and not saying what I thought or smacking them.

[rogue emissary]

20. Exactly!

[Brother Buzz]

11. My magic 8 Ball says...

Corporate white wingers.

[vi5]

6. More importantly.....how is that being done?

What presidential power is allowing him to just dole out 12 million to a certain area?

Should I make my normal snarky comment about how "The president doesn't just have those kinds of powers!!!!" and "The president can't do anything unless congress acts first!!!" and my personal favorite "The president is not a dictator!!!"

[MineralMan]

7. It's a bribe. Pay them off so they'll vote for you.

[spanone]

8. BINGO

[MineralMan]

9. And worse, others will not get money that

they should from that program. It will come at the expense of others, like always.

[gratuitous]

12. Will all the farmers have to pass a urinalysis?

You know, like other indigent recipients of government benefits? We don't want government money supporting druggies, do we?

[markses66]

18. Everybody in a farming HOUSEHOLD receiving this federal aid should be drug tested, right?

That's how they like it for others!

Be on the look out for opioids.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age

WouldOrWouldn'tHat Retweeted:

"Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a longlimbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism."
- Catch 22

Link to tweet

[SamKnause]

14. $12 billion, not $5 billion.

[VMA131Marine]

15. It's not socialism ...

It's effectively a bribe.

[former9thward]

16. No.

Socialism is the government owning and directing the means of production. A payment to farmers is neither.

[Hekate]

19. Nah. It's bribery and hush money for screwing them. nt

[NightWatcher]

21. It's a payoff for him fucking them over

[0rganism]

22. not socialism, more like halfway between welfare and bribery

also, $12 billion not $5 billion

[kacekwl]

23. Maybe Ms McCain can explain it.

Since she knows so much about it.

[Thrill]

24. Only when Democrats do it

lol