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In reply to the discussion: Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices [View all]Beartracks
(14,653 posts)32. Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters.
It's not like the rightwing corporatists and "party of business" don't have a track record of crashing the economy and hurting small businesses and "real Americans" despite all their big talk and "low tax" promises. The referenced 1980's farm crisis was under their watch, too.
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Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
OP
Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters.
Beartracks
20 hrs ago
#32
Republicans suffer from the myopic idea that everything isn't connected. n/t
Beartracks
13 hrs ago
#36
Oh man, if only somebody would have warned them that voting for Trump would be bad for them...
RockRaven
Yesterday
#4
Last fall the head guy from the soybean farmers association was making the rounds
RockRaven
Yesterday
#27
Funny you should say "Jesus Christ!" -- He seems to be the reason they think they need to keep voting Republican.
Beartracks
13 hrs ago
#37
So the party of "Greed is Good" is eating your young? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING??
Maru Kitteh
Yesterday
#9
Small farms will be bought up by big agra business and you will PAY THRU THE NOSE !!! for groceries
Stargazer99
Yesterday
#14
Watch supreme asshat Sen Roger Marshall in Kansas. Voted for everything to hurt farmers
Bengus81
14 hrs ago
#35