r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14h ago

It turns out you cannot eat pure political rhetoric when the trade war bill comes due.

Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like begging the government for a multibillion-dollar bailout because your own preferred trade policies vaporized your customer base.

You voted to burn down the global grain market and are now stunned to discover you actually have to live inside the ashes. 
Broad tariff regimes inevitably trigger direct retaliatory duties on domestic agricultural exports, converting thriving family operations into federally dependent welfare cases overnight. Handing out billions in taxpayer-funded stopgap relief does not recover structural export market share; it simply forces the public to subsidize avoidable self-inflicted losses while multi-generational farms fold under the debt. 

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u/BayouGal 14h ago

Because farmers actually sit down a lot. And they’re still eating the meals for when they used horses, not combines.

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u/Ok_Drag5089 14h ago

They also seem to be getting the same education they got back then. Like before electricity. When we thought evil humors caused consumption.

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u/ImminentWeirdness 13h ago

Education in many of these states was decimated beginning in the 70s, largely by design. The ruling class has always relied upon the cheap labor of a permanent underclass.

Following Kennedy, LBJ, and more broadly, the Civil Rights era, that was much harder to come by.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 5h ago

Consumption was caused but mama's of bad air floating around. Evil humours caused other infectious diseases and sn imbalance of humours caused melancholy and insanity.

Thank you for attending my MiddlecAges TED Talk. 😉

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u/carpetbugeater2 13h ago

They drink a ton of beer and pop/soda as well.

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u/HomChkn 10h ago

An unless you own a lot of livestock farming is two weeks during planting and 2 weeks during harvest. (a bit more than that on some crops)

you do have to check on the fields a few times to see if you need to spray something.

Fruit and Veg are a bit different also but most farmers are in the corn, wheat, soy, milo business.

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u/ImminentWeirdness 13h ago

“…they’re still eating the meals for when they used horses slaves, not combines.”