Farmers in the United States have been hammered in multiple different ways on multiple different
fronts for many, many years now, it all started, of course, with Donald Trump's trade war,
then the pandemic hit.
Then of course we had inflation.
Farmers are struggling and they're facing a record number of foreclosures and bankruptcies.
So what the federal government has been doing for a couple years now is issuing direct payments
to American farmers.
So far they have given direct money to the tune of $800 million.
Given that money directly to farmers.
Here is your check so that they can pay their bills and continue providing food for the
United States of America.
They just announced this past week that we're gonna be pouring another 1.3 billion to keep
these farmers afloat.
Now, let me start by saying I don't have a problem with this.
I am not complaining that we are giving money directly to farmers so that they don't go
bankrupt or they don't have their farms foreclosed upon.
We depend on these people for our food.
They are vital to not just the economy, but literally to our survival.
We need them and they need this money because they're facing an unfair set of circumstances.
What does however, me off is that this story that I'm reading here and the other stories
I've read on the issue, not once, not once, did any of them mention Trump's trade war
and how it impacted farmers here in the United States?
Not one.
That's what me off.
I can honestly tell you that since Biden took office, there is only one person that I have
seen talk about Donald Trump's trade war.
I'm not saying this is the only person that's talked about it, but it's sure the only person
I've seen, and that's me.
And I'm not saying that to brag.
I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but I swear I mention it once a month and then it
disappears.
We have not ended Trump's trade war folks.
Does everybody understand that?
That the trade war got so bad that right before the 2020 presidential election, you know what
Donald Trump did?
He had the US Department of Agriculture start cutting checks to farmers 10, $20,000 just
to essentially bribe them to vote for him.
Farmers were facing record numbers of bankruptcies, so he had his people come out, write them
checks, and deliver it directly to their
Front.
That's how bad the trade war got, and Biden has not reversed it.
So these farmers are still getting screwed from Trump's policies that have not been fixed.
Then, as I mentioned, Covid came along, made things so much worse.
Now, inflation is also killing them, but those hits they took from both Covid and from inflation
would not be so bad.
Their situation would not be as dire as it is today if Trump's trade war didn't kick
it all off.
So it is journalistic malpractice for any article talking about the plight of American
farmers to not mention Donald Trump's trade war.
And I think more and more people need to be talking about that and we need to be pressuring
President Biden to reverse it, to undo the damage that Donald Trump did.
People's lives depend on it, and if they go down, we go down because as I mentioned, we're
fully dependent upon these farmers to get our food.
If they go out of business, tighten your belts cuz it's gonna be a rough time.