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

[u/Cderouen8284]

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. 

[u/coolrising2]

They don't do any physical work like the skinny farmers of years ago instead they ride tractors all day. Farmers years ago ate big meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and worked off the calories doing hard labor.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/coolrising2]

Going to be entirely honest here, I spent some time working on a cattle ranch as a farm hand.

It was hard work, but only in bursts and I worked a hell of a lot harder in warehouses every single day than I ever worked on the farm. Yes it's hard work, but it's not as hard as all the other hard work.