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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArkansas farmers are pleading with US government to save them -- many face bankruptcy. Here's what Trump is offering
As tariffs begin to bite, the states farmers are pleading for emergency funding [1] as they stare down bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Hundreds of farmers recently took their pleas to Arkansas congressional delegation in Brookland, a community in the northeastern part of the state.
If theres no emergency funding this year, there will be one out of three farmers who will file bankruptcy, said Chris King, a Woodruff County farmer who attended the event.
The farmers clearly see their situation as dire. Heres whats going on.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-farmers-pleading-us-government-193000999.html

Girard442
(6,755 posts)Attilatheblond
(7,137 posts)Some may turn violence to others
Food prices will keep climbing as Big Ag buys up more and more of the farmland.
taxi
(2,477 posts)Haven't we all heard it said time and time again that once these people get on welfare they never get off? You go out into the country and all these welfare farmers are driving around in new trucks, all decked out with tinted windows and nice wheels. They've all got the latest side-by-sides and UTV's, 44 gun safes, and they drive around in air-conditioned tractors listening to who knows what. In the mean time hard working Americans in blue states are paying their way and the government isn't doing anything about it.
I say they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get rid of all those expensive toys, and start working harder.
JT45242
(3,601 posts)I'll bet they overwhelmingly voted for mango Mussolini so that he would hurt black or brown people.
Fafo is setting in.
Fichefinder
(356 posts)About fucking time someone put reality into terms even the hillbillies can understand.
Well said!
JI7
(92,525 posts)complain about some black kid with a phone and other shit.
Freddie
(9,949 posts)Mysterian
(5,892 posts)Imagine that!
sinkingfeeling
(56,276 posts)marble falls
(68,086 posts)Volaris
(11,018 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,759 posts)hatrack
(63,459 posts)Ilsa
(63,214 posts)I don't want to hear a word from them until they own their fuckups.
hatrack
(63,459 posts). . . i.e. never.
LR3
(55 posts)And they will still for a Republican next time, too, because brown people exist.
From the article:
Farmers like Trumps tariffs
Despite the uncertainty caused by the tariffs, American farmers still see the presidents flagship policy as a long-term win.
A May survey by Purdue University of American producers found that 70% believe the tariffs will ultimately strengthen their industry [7].
odins folly
(463 posts)If they were asked, what exactly makes the tariffs a long term win?
I doubt any one of them could explain anything about the tariffs
.
And then some voice on AM hate radio will tell them they are going bankrupt because of the Dems
.
Renew Deal
(84,424 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,058 posts)Mysterian
(5,892 posts)so they will surely borrow billions from China et al to give these farmers a handout. But don't call it welfare.