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Are they on welfare when the government pays them to disc their crops?....or when the government pays them during a drought and after storm damage?...or does it only rattle your cage when Trump places tariffs on China?....This is an embarrassment to US farmers to become welfare recipients under Donald Trump.
Farm bankruptcies are up and small-town America is hurting and some towns may even be shriveling economically as farmers cut back their spending in response.
The Trump farm welfare is not enough to rescue rural America as farmers who aren't producing won't be spending their Trump welfare in town.
Farmers don't want Trump's welfare, they want their markets back.
Could Trump have harmed rural America in perpetuity?
U.S. tariffs on China 'devastating' to rural America
U.S. tariffs on China 'devastating' to rural America
CGTN
U.S. farmers continue to voice their anger at Washington's protectionist trade policies, which have cost them dearly despite a second round of aid by the Donald Trump administration.
The President of the Minnesota Farmers Union, Gary Wertish, has criticized the U.S. tariff measures against China, noting that agricultural subsidies provided by the U.S. government are far from offsetting farmers' losses.
"No the farmers do not want that," said Wertish in an interview with CNN. "We want our markets back. We do not want the money from the taxpayers."
"It already has driven some farmers off the farm, which not only hurts the farming community but it hurts rural – small rural communities," Wertish added. "It's been very devastating to rural America." ...