My father farms onions beans and corn, and he has some cows too. We live in southwest Pennsylvania. In the last election my father said to me "Hillary doesn't care about farmers," and I think he was right.
Now he's getting a check from the government to pay for the fact that China isn't buying his onions. And we can't afford to put a new building on our property, and the builders said it's because the cost of materials is through the roof - steel and aluminum is too expensive.
It's been a tough year seeing my father accept that Trump hasn't helped him at all. He's hurt us, and it's making our family talk about voting for someone else next time around.
The last tax cut just sent the deficit through the roof, and became a massive corporate payout to shareholders. Again, another Trump move that didn't help the little people.
So now as the stock markets are shaking, and our family's investments are starting to erode, my mom and dad came to me asking them whether they should just cash everything out. What am I supposed to tell them? To stop betting on Trump?
I don't know where to turn. He let my family down. Has anyone else felt like he let us all down? I feel like I'm waiting for something that's never going to happen. He's never going to actually be a good president for us.
no you are right we should have let China keep fucking the country as a whole to save your farm.
Jacob Richardson
This is what I should've expected. Looking for hope and instead I just get insulted. Thanks, bro.
Lincoln Nelson
Sorry folks dont wanna buy your onions dude lmao.
How about you live more simply? My family runs a small dairy farm in northern New York. He has a small house and lives simply and is fine.
You might also wanna expand your business strategy. Maybe offer an AirBNB, or let people do farm tours or whatever. You can do it. Trumps not the problem on this one.
Connor Adams
Gotta love Democrat bullshit stories.
Alexander Powell
>being a white farmer >during Zimbabwe Part 3: Electric Tambourine don't do that
Benjamin Ortiz
Farming is the backbone of any economy. So yeah, it's pretty damn important, nerd.
Austin Wilson
Go back to Jow ForumsT_D if you want "love and support."
Christian Jackson
It's s o y not onions, stupid fucking filter. And we have to farm s0 y if we want to plant corn. Corn is the entire countryside in SWPA.
Bentley Wright
MIGA fags are like a cult. Whenever somebody says they are losing faith in Trump they harass and abuse them. >KILL YOURSELF is the usual response. They hate thinking that they are wrong for still having faith in Trump. They hate that their cult is in shambles.
Nathan Walker
Forget politics and focus on what you can do for yourself to enrich your own house for your future family when you move out and away from your parents.
fingers crossed that trump doesnt cut medicaid second term
Jace Powell
And yet you "farmers" bitch and complain all the time while the government gives you money for literally nothing.
Nicholas Williams
If you were a real farmer, you'd know Trump isn't the one hurting you, China is, and they have been for a long time now.
Christopher Murphy
>lie on the internet >get insulted
kill yourself, faggot
Isaiah Johnson
>to save your farm Agreed. Screw the farmers, they only grow the stuff that keeps us alive, why worry about their ability to sustain our food supply?
Tyler Brooks
Dump sucks and MIGAtards are horrible but you're a lying faggot, memeflag. HIDE ALL MEMEFLAGS UNTIL THE LAZY FUCKING MODS REMOVE THEM
Liam Allen
>I wish to continue the dependency of childhood with some strong daddy providing for me and absolving me from responsibility. The government can become my daddy.
Guess how I know you're not a Republican... or even a real man.
Our country doesn't need China. Fuck China and Fuck you asshole. I hope your farm turns into a wasteland because of trump.
Dylan Cox
Will someone think of the land raping, illegal hiring , welfare receiving farmers!!!
Lucas Taylor
China was buying our onions and now Trump is giving us checks. So we WERE profiting with crop rotation between corn and onions and now we aren't. My family depends on a check from the government now. For what?
Owen Kelly
How hurt was America before this began? Is it possible to have gone about this a different way?
Bentley Fisher
>And yet you "farmers" bitch and complain all the time while the government gives you money for literally nothing. The government subsidized onions, incentivizing farmers to grow it en masse, then decide to start a trade war with the country that buys the majority of it. Brilliant strategy.
Asher Reyes
Your pain is for the greater good, being able to sell your s.0y to China in return for the loss of 1.2 million manufacturing jobs and the empowering of the most evil regime on the planet is not a good trade. If you want to make more money replant fruit/nut trees if possible, if not just jump on the corn train and collect your government subsidies.
Hudson Fisher
No u
Leo Barnes
I came here to bitch about how the free market was providing my family with income and now we rely on a check to pay for s o y sale shortfalls due to the trade war Trump started. Some republican you are.
Levi Peterson
I don't believe that your investments are being eroded because my family's generic-ass coca cola/microsoft and so forth investments have experienced pretty solid net growth over the last few months. If they are, then they certainly don't represent the majority of investments that average Americans have.
Jeremiah Rogers
i was watching a scientology documentary the other day the similarities are striking
Anthony Walker
>I wish to continue the dependency of childhood with some strong daddy providing for me and absolving me from responsibility. The government can become my daddy. That's a straight up description of Trump.
David Williams
I live in Western PA as well OP. Take your meme flag off and show some pride.
I feel for your family, but why are you putting yourself in a position where your business is reliant upon the government to make ends meet?
If you are this stupid to place eternal trust in ANY government for your livelihood, my friend, it does truly pain me to say this, as I feel your OP was genuine, but you deserve what you get.
Justin Cooper
>meme flag >muh poor farmer dad >economy tumbling!!!1 transparent lies of a shill
Ryan Green
Fuck off, concern troll Democrat faggot.
Connor Butler
>Sanders is the choice
Yeah, let's tear up the constitution and elect a socialist so we can become like Venezuela.
Boo hoo lifes hard sell your shit to another country. Chinas not our friend.
Brody Roberts
Tell them to invest in breeding pigeons. Pigeons are the new silver and tomorrows gold. Also invest in thin rope to tie them to a tree because pigeons can fly if they're not tied down properly.
Alexander Watson
How many shekels are they paying you?
Ryder Hill
>tear up the constitution talk to the founding fathers andrew jackson wanted to re-write the constitution every 10 years fucking retard
Blake Thompson
What your talking about is not free markets, China openly devalues their currency to the point that no one is even able to guess what the real price may be and even with this their so deep in the red that the largest bank CCB needs to be kept afloat by illegal bond subsidies from HSBC (which is what the CFO recently ‘resigned’ over) not to mention the strategic issues with exporting manufacturing overseas.
David Robinson
We always rotate corn and s o y. If I can't plant s o y then I can't plant corn. Corn is, like I said, the entire country out here.
Jackson Lee
Give your balls a tug, tit fucker, no one believes your larp.
Asher Thomas
No, retard. You came here to bitch about how China was treating you and whining about how you can't build a new building. You are a fucking idiot. Trump is sending you government checks now -free money- in order to compensate for China's retardation. He helped you. You are just a meme flag faggot.
Jacob White
Blaming someone else for your problems, you and your family sound like a incompetent niggers with your 40 acres and a mule. You can always make money in stocks, whether it goes up or down but you stupid niggers don't know how to do so.
Joshua Cooper
how much did you get paid to write that, re d d it?
Cameron Harris
And the US government puts ethanol in the fuel here. Our government tries to help farmers who produce corn, like us.
Dominic Robinson
>if not just jump on the corn train and collect your government subsidies. That's a fucking awful idea because that drives the price of corn down further. No one fucking buys and it's subsidized in such a way that you still have to sell it. The government used to buy it from you but the Monsanto republicans fucked that up.
Easton Sanchez
>but why are you putting yourself in a position where your business is reliant upon the government to make ends meet? That's the way our agricultural system is designed. The government pushed the market in a certain direction by subsidizing certain crops. If you're not growing those crops, it's extremely difficult to make it as a farmer.
Jayden Turner
>like venezuela well America and Israel would have to sanction the US first and try to coup them out of their democratically elected leader so i don't think that will happen but nice post boomer
Sebastian Jenkins
Murrysville aka God’s Country
Jayden Phillips
Sounds like he is trying to fix the problem he created?
Easton Morales
Here's the thing, no one like the communist Chinks but they hardly run the show, whatever concessions and globalist grants they were profiting by were offered by the west. It was US corporations banging on Chinese doors,not the other way around, it was globalist policy to expand the Chinese economy, as well as India's, we in the west were supposed to buy all the climate bullshit and swap factory jobs for being lollypop men in traffic control. It hasn't worked out that way as as the cute went too deep. Now Trump is going too far the other way and I don't the the Chinks will be either in a mindset or position to be as forgiving as us.
Ryan Ortiz
>If your crop isn't selling, do what every other farmer did and GROW SOMETHING ELSE. You don't really know how farming works, do you?
Connor Smith
fuck you shoresy.
Wyatt Morris
That’s what I’m saying, either replant or just jump on the subsidy train by planting a bajillion acres of corn.
Zachary Reed
Nice, you probably went to Franklin Regional with all the other rich doctors' kids. My grandfather knows Paul Ives over there, btw. He has a practice in both towns.
Charles Allen
Plenty of other countries will buy those, or you could stop complaining and adapt. There are many other crop rotations that can be done to grow corn. You sound like you have no idea at all about real farming.
Brandon Diaz
Fuck you Jonesy.
Three things are gonna happen bud.
I hit you, you hit the floor, I fuck your mother.
William Sanchez
The real issue with farming is that food production is TOO efficient, between crop rotation GMO and simple selective breeding between the United States and Canada if we really wanted too we could drown the world in cheap produce. But we can’t do we’re left with subsidizing the numerous farmers, which there’s really nothing wrong with but you can’t bitch that you can’t sell your onions because China needs to die.
Luke Carter
kindly neck yourselves faggots
John Morgan
Oh okay I guess we'll just magically have s o y buyers next year from this mystical foreign land of which you speak. Any other countries out there that have the same market as China? And you say "adapt" but you just mean go bankrupt.
I hate China as much as the next guy but where are we going to sell our crops? That was taking money FROM them and giving it TO us.
Carter Reyes
>China is being unfair >"It's Trump's fault!"
Go back to discord, tranny.
Michael Torres
Uh-huh, Aussie, I would like to buy your magic pigeons.
It is not the role of the state to fix businesses that fail to adapt to market trends. Thinking you can just vote for a daddy to take care of you (and even the idea that this is the role of government) marks you as either a nigger or a child.
If any of this story is true, it is the end result of being dependent on the state in the first place instead of making sound business decisions.
But do you really think the leftist candidates will be better? A tough year is much better than losing all farm subsidies to pay for reparations, or being forced to pay your diverse female farmhands 15$ an hour for sitting on their ass.
Joseph Price
I went to Franklin yes but that’s not exactly true it was an extremely middle class upbringing. My dad was an accountant for US Steel til he retired.
Chase Roberts
>it's making our family talk about voting for someone else next time around. what if he cut subsidies entirely?
honestly Trump was booed off stage in Texas by farmers but farmers are fucked anyway, they can't make money on the shit they grow even with subsidy, they need to get off the government teat and go away as a business or remodel in a way that is supportable without government money
William Hall
>yes goy >don't farm the land >just trade shekels on my imagination printer
Cameron Gray
>he created You are a retarded larper.
Trump is trying to fix a decades old problem.
Short term pain for long term gain.
But your a fat neet that can handle a little suffering in the short term for the betterment of the country in the long run.
Kill yourself.
Daniel Martinez
If we don't all knock China down, you won't have a farm to protect. There must be victims in war, and sadly, your pops and family are on the front line
Ethan Sanders
Fake and gay
Sage
Blake Gonzalez
>but you can’t bitch that you can’t sell your onions because China needs to die. I think the problem is the sudden shift in the market. Farmers could have adapted and started growing different crops. There was no warning though, they weren't given adequate time and have been completely screwed over by the trade war.
Levi Kelly
>I think the problem is the sudden shift in the market. bad weather and a slow spring neutered this year when prices were going down last year
do you even into commodities report?
James Johnson
>getting a check from the government
I've never heard a farmer say anything in the last 30 years about US manufacturing industry; they all loved NAFTA and migrant workers, and most of the ones I've seen near me buy fucking mahindra or kioti equipment. It's your turn in the barrel, maybe you'll fucking learn something from it.
Matthew Hill
If you weren’t a massive larping faggot you’d show your American flag rather than a meme flag you kike mother fucker
Angel Gray
>It is not the role of the state to fix businesses that fail to adapt to market trends. Even when the government is directly responsible for that trend? They dictated what farmers would grow, and then their decisions led to those crops not being profitable.
>If any of this story is true, it is the end result of being dependent on the state in the first place instead of making sound business decisions. You're basically saying that no one should be a farmer in the USA. Where would you have our food come from?
Samuel Hernandez
So we should continue to take it up the ass from China indefinitely rather than deal with the short term fallout. Is that really what you're advocating?
Jason Morgan
>Sanders is the choice more Socialism?
Sebastian Campbell
I’d maybe take you seriously if I hadn’t seen this copy pasta 3 times word for word already. You dumb motherfuckers think that people will really note vote against Biden or a Harris just because you spam the same tired shit for 0.03$ a pop. Didn’t work for Hillary won’t work this time
Robert Anderson
Yes, weather is a part of farming, but I'm not sure what that has to do with farmers sitting on a crop that they can no longer sell.
So maybe we should continue to let China eat our lunch?
Nolan Reed
You people are seriously fucking retarded! Talk about LARPing; Not a fucking one of you owns and runs a business let alone has any idea how foreign trade works.
What you have is propaganda.
The problem with our society is that the people who do stupid things don't pay for that stupidity and the people who decide what we do aren't the ones who have to do it.
If you were in the same situation as this farmer, you wouldn't be supporting what the orange moron is doing one bit.
But you are not. And yet you are allowed to vote.
Benjamin Thomas
>If I can't plant s o y then I can't plant corn. Why is this? Genuine question
Asher Cox
your father doesn't sell onions to chinx. your a larping liberal
Parker Clark
Maybe we should increase the exorbitant agricultural subsidies we have paid since the great depression
Lucas Jackson
That's terrible user. You should vote for a disgusting pedo Democrat instead.
Jaxon James
It's very easy for people to talk about the greater good when they're not the ones being directly affected by it. "Oh, you're getting fucked over now? Well even though it's not really having any impact on me, it's better for my future so you need to just deal with it." That's essentially where we're at.
Ok but when do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? Should we maintain the status quo and merely manage our decline to avoid disruption?
What are the top three worst things Drumpf has done, in your estimation? Hardmode: don't link to CNN articles
Colton Jenkins
As someone who has had to use chinese materials, Chinese steel and aluminium are horrible quality, if you used Chinese metal your new building probably would have collapsed.
Oliver Gomez
Since when do american conservatives require some foreign buyer on the other side of the planet to sustain their life, I thought conservatives were all about self-sufficiency and independence, riding horses, raising cattle, traversing the midwest ... seems like these republican farmers have gotten sheepifed.
Ethan Peterson
he won't fix it. This is for just chocking China for globalist kike mafia. The problem will still exists, but China will probably be replaced by Mexico and India. No one in Murrica will work for such low earnings in order to really solve the problem and still keep up the illusion of "infinite growth" that drives your bullshit doctrine. Thus if you'd really solve the problem will result in the biggest economic crisis US ever faced, because parasites in your supply chains, state and so on. Government or population would eventually have to crackdown on all of it, but at the end of the day, America won't be the foremost superpower anymore. Still would somewhat fix your problems and would get you back on track to a more grounded state of being.
The alternative is as I said to move the problem around. To set up production in other countries with low wages and just continue the consumerist retardness until you disappear into the abyss. Kikes profit, slaves lose.