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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member


     
  2. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

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  3. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    That's where the "pallets of cash" went?

    Yeah who didn't see that coming? I'm starting to think as poorly of Kerry's State Dept. as I do of HRC's.
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Skyrocket? Come on. The agricultural sector is ballpark $1 trillion, but farm subsidies are only about $25 billion. Further, lots of these subsidies have little to do with food (e.g., ethanol).
     
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  5. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Not fake: President of the USA called neo Nazis " very fine people."
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program and the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program are basically federal Health insurance subsidies for farms. Where the outcry from the red state Farms that Blue state taxpayers are subsidizing their insurance?
     
  7. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Look, a couple of things:

    1) Farming is hard work. Sun up to sun down. My grandfather gave my dad one big piece of advice: do NOT be a farmer.

    2) The US food production chain from source to table is what we call a potential terrorism threat vector. You disrupt that in a major way (poisons, chembio, cow diseases, etc.) you are going to have a lot of starving people in cities. Then that leads to civil unrest.

    I don't have a problem with any farm subsidies except for that ethanol shit. That's taking food off our plates, increasing food prices, and pumping shitty gas into our cars and lawnmowers. I've got two royally screwed up lawnmowers now. Fuck ethanol.
     
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  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The hits keep coming from Reuters.

     
  9. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Food stamps are 6.62 billion a year, farm subsidies are 25 billion, at least. I agree with both programs, for most part. But let’s be knowledgable about who is on welfare and to what extent. 9 million mothers and young children are on WIC. Farmers are getting more welfare and there’s less of them and many framer welfare recipients are multimillion dollar companies. Republican welfare whores
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    But at least the government in charge has banned abortion on demand.
     
  11. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    The religious government in Iran has more in common with the religious government in Washington than they differ. Abortion, women's Rights , gays and same sex marriage. Use of force to implement religious dogma, nuclear weapons and military intervention to,solve domestic problems, Iran and trump are the same.

    The only difference between trump and Iran is Israel and Saudi Arabia.
     
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  12. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I ain’t defending it, dingus. Just putting it in numerical context.
     
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