GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

[miketx]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

Fake news.

 

[MisterBeale]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

It sounds to me, like Trump runs the USDA much like Obama ran the IRS?

 

[Godboy]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

I bet you guys will get him this time! Trump shouldnt be giving money to all his personal farmer buddies, of which there are many.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Not only did I prove you wrong, but I went back and did another search on Obama administration self-dealing and all of the articles that came up were about Trump and his families members. This is the only one that came up specifically about the Obama Administration:

On ethics: Obama went high, Trump goes low

This didn't raise a red flag for you? Well, silly question, I know. If the search had returned tons of results on Obama, you'd just ignore it.

But this does shine a light on how you didn't understand the entire debate about how biased tech giants like Google influence the world.

Information is the penultimate power. Control what people can get access to and you can control their beliefs.

Except people like me, I don't believe much of anything from the media anymore. So many people "prove" something by posting a link. I just smh.

Sure, I'm pretty much the same way.

To me, if you post a link to an article, all you are doing is bringing someone else's opinion into the discussion. I don't need or want someone's opinion. I have my own.

It's not just "someone else's opinion". There's data and facts. I realize conservative don't believe in facts. That's why you refused to believe the media, and go with bloggers who validate your "feelings". Conservatives have taken to ignoring facts because they prove so many of the notions they hold dear, are complete bullshit.

Wow, you are really full of shit.

There is data, that has been interpreted for the gullible to mean what they want you to think it means.

Ask them for the study. The raw data, without the filters and then impress me by actually analyzing it.

You don't need no stinkin' facts! You have alternative facts!

 

[BrokeLoser]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Was the Kenyan Chimp investigated when he loaded the taxpayer tit with more piece of shits than any other president ever?
Wasn't the Kenyan Ghetto King the first president to spend more on piece of shits than on our military?
Barack Obama: Welfare King
Obama Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama

 

[BrokeLoser]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump has created a welfare state to cover for his ridiculous trade war

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if The Trump Crime Family skimmed off the top prior to giving the rest to their big Ag buds.

Suddenly, the left isn't down with farm subsidies.

Typical knee jerk response from a bootlicking asshole who doesn't read past the subject line, or is incapable of comprehending what he reads.

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

simply open your eyes to see, open your ears to hear, and open your mind to interpret it all... easy as 1,2,3.... even you, can do it!

Sounds like they are getting nervous about Barr exposing their corruption so they launch this new attack.

Amusing that the only corruption they see is in this Administration, never in their own institutions.

Well past administrations haven't engaged in self-dealing to the extend this administration has.

Prove something. Cant, can ya?

Yes I can prove it. Easily.

Amid Trump self-dealing, America abandons global anti-corruption fight

Catering to Conflicts: Influence and Self-Dealing at Trump’s Businesses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

The google search for trump self dealing produced over 7 million responses:

trump administration self dealing - Google Search

Links prove nothing, are to stupid to understand that?

are to ?

dumbass morons -

LefTard Logic:
"How dare that son of a bitch help good, real Americans, those at the heart and soul of America....doesn't he know we have 40 million illegal wetbacks and ShaQuita's litter to fund?"

 

[Dragonlady]

Not only did I prove you wrong, but I went back and did another search on Obama administration self-dealing and all of the articles that came up were about Trump and his families members. This is the only one that came up specifically about the Obama Administration:

On ethics: Obama went high, Trump goes low

This didn't raise a red flag for you? Well, silly question, I know. If the search had returned tons of results on Obama, you'd just ignore it.

But this does shine a light on how you didn't understand the entire debate about how biased tech giants like Google influence the world.

Information is the penultimate power. Control what people can get access to and you can control their beliefs.

Except people like me, I don't believe much of anything from the media anymore. So many people "prove" something by posting a link. I just smh.

Sure, I'm pretty much the same way.

To me, if you post a link to an article, all you are doing is bringing someone else's opinion into the discussion. I don't need or want someone's opinion. I have my own.

It's not just "someone else's opinion". There's data and facts. I realize conservative don't believe in facts. That's why you refused to believe the media, and go with bloggers who validate your "feelings". Conservatives have taken to ignoring facts because they prove so many of the notions they hold dear, are complete bullshit.

Wow, you are really full of shit.

There is data, that has been interpreted for the gullible to mean what they want you to think it means.

Ask them for the study. The raw data, without the filters and then impress me by actually analyzing it.

The assumption that I have to "impress you" is beyond laughable. The mere fact that you're a Trumpist, shows that you don't give a rat's ass about facts, data or anything that makes your fool look bad. Even if I did everything you suggested, you'd discount the whole enterprise on some other flimsy pretext.

You're the same people who utterly disregarded government employment rates and stock market numbers the whole 8 years that Obama was in office, calling Obama's recovery the "worst ever", and now embrace the same government statistisc breathlessly each month when they're released as proof of the strenth of the Trump Economy. Now you deny the 6 years of growth under the Obama Presidency ever happened, and credit Trump with "turning the economy around".

Every chart, every graph, every government report, shows that what you fools now call the "Trump Economy" started in 2010, and that Trump's growth in employment, GDP growth and stock market growth started in 2010 and continues to this day, although it has growth in these numbers has slowed substantially since Trump was in office.

And still you claim deny the success of the Obama Economy.

 

[miketx]

This didn't raise a red flag for you? Well, silly question, I know. If the search had returned tons of results on Obama, you'd just ignore it.

But this does shine a light on how you didn't understand the entire debate about how biased tech giants like Google influence the world.

Information is the penultimate power. Control what people can get access to and you can control their beliefs.

Except people like me, I don't believe much of anything from the media anymore. So many people "prove" something by posting a link. I just smh.

Sure, I'm pretty much the same way.

To me, if you post a link to an article, all you are doing is bringing someone else's opinion into the discussion. I don't need or want someone's opinion. I have my own.

It's not just "someone else's opinion". There's data and facts. I realize conservative don't believe in facts. That's why you refused to believe the media, and go with bloggers who validate your "feelings". Conservatives have taken to ignoring facts because they prove so many of the notions they hold dear, are complete bullshit.

Wow, you are really full of shit.

There is data, that has been interpreted for the gullible to mean what they want you to think it means.

Ask them for the study. The raw data, without the filters and then impress me by actually analyzing it.

The assumption that I have to "impress you" is beyond laughable. The mere fact that you're a Trumpist, shows that you don't give a rat's ass about facts, data or anything that makes your fool look bad. Even if I did everything you suggested, you'd discount the whole enterprise on some other flimsy pretext.

You're the same people who utterly disregarded government employment rates and stock market numbers the whole 8 years that Obama was in office, calling Obama's recovery the "worst ever", and now embrace the same government statistisc breathlessly each month when they're released as proof of the strenth of the Trump Economy. Now you deny the 6 years of growth under the Obama Presidency ever happened, and credit Trump with "turning the economy around".

Every chart, every graph, every government report, shows that what you fools now call the "Trump Economy" started in 2010, and that Trump's growth in employment, GDP growth and stock market growth started in 2010 and continues to this day, although it has growth in these numbers has slowed substantially since Trump was in office.

And still you claim deny the success of the Obama Economy.

Bona fide media fed fool. ^^^^

 

[Dragonlady]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Was the Kenyan Chimp investigated when he loaded the taxpayer tit with more piece of shits than any other president ever?
Wasn't the Kenyan Ghetto King the first president to spend more on piece of shits than on our military?
Barack Obama: Welfare King
Obama Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama

The only link that wasn't to some piece of shit publication was the first link to a Forbes article from October 2010, just as the economy was about to turn around. As if you could turn around the mess W left him with in 18 months, especially considering his first budget started October 1, 2009.

The second link was was to CNS News - rated as a "Questionable Source". That's good manners for "fake new".

• Overall, we rate CNS News Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda and numerous failed fact checks.

Your last link was to the Moonie Times.

• Although the Washington Times has a very strong right editorial bias, they report straight news with a much lower bias. Therefore, we rate them Right-Center biased overall, and factually mixed due to poor sourcing, holding editorial positions that are contrary to scientific consensus, and failed fact checks.

I notice that the links you conservatives post are almost ALL rated as Questionable due to failed fact checks. This is the essence of "fake news" and cannot be believed or trusted. Your dismissal of all MSM on the basis of bias, (which in most cases is slight).

Anybody with even limited reading comprehension can read a biased piece and recognize the "point of view". But we can't determine whether the facts which form the basis of the conclusions are false. Conservatives search the internet for sources who support their point of vew and facts be damned.

If all your sources are lying about the facts, or twisting them with half-truths, how do you know their conclusions are valid? The answer is, you don't. You're trusting that they're right. If your basis premises are lies, your conclusions can't possibly have any bearing on reality.

Conservatives don't care about truth because the truth isn't on your side. Your lies about health care, social spending and, and the economy are destroying the country, and continually repeating the same lies doesn't change the outcome on your failed and failing policies. Repeating the same lies over and over and drown out the truth may convince people that cutting taxes creates jobs and helps the economy, but cutting taxes does not and has not every created jobs, or paid for itself. The first two times ended with a stock market crash, and a recession. The third time will not be the charm.

 

[BrokeLoser]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Was the Kenyan Chimp investigated when he loaded the taxpayer tit with more piece of shits than any other president ever?
Wasn't the Kenyan Ghetto King the first president to spend more on piece of shits than on our military?
Barack Obama: Welfare King
Obama Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama

The only link that wasn't to some piece of shit publication was the first link to a Forbes article from October 2010, just as the economy was about to turn around. As if you could turn around the mess W left him with in 18 months, especially considering his first budget started October 1, 2009.

The second link was was to CNS News - rated as a "Questionable Source". That's good manners for "fake new".

• Overall, we rate CNS News Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda and numerous failed fact checks.

Your last link was to the Moonie Times.

• Although the Washington Times has a very strong right editorial bias, they report straight news with a much lower bias. Therefore, we rate them Right-Center biased overall, and factually mixed due to poor sourcing, holding editorial positions that are contrary to scientific consensus, and failed fact checks.

I notice that the links you conservatives post are almost ALL rated as Questionable due to failed fact checks. This is the essence of "fake news" and cannot be believed or trusted. Your dismissal of all MSM on the basis of bias, (which in most cases is slight).

Anybody with even limited reading comprehension can read a biased piece and recognize the "point of view". But we can't determine whether the facts which form the basis of the conclusions are false. Conservatives search the internet for sources who support their point of vew and facts be damned.

If all your sources are lying about the facts, or twisting them with half-truths, how do you know their conclusions are valid? The answer is, you don't. You're trusting that they're right. If your basis premises are lies, your conclusions can't possibly have any bearing on reality.

Conservatives don't care about truth because the truth isn't on your side. Your lies about health care, social spending and, and the economy are destroying the country, and continually repeating the same lies doesn't change the outcome on your failed and failing policies. Repeating the same lies over and over and drown out the truth may convince people that cutting taxes creates jobs and helps the economy, but cutting taxes does not and has not every created jobs, or paid for itself. The first two times ended with a stock market crash, and a recession. The third time will not be the charm.

You could always refute my claims with contradicting links....Because you said so isn’t all that convincing.

 

[Dragonlady]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Was the Kenyan Chimp investigated when he loaded the taxpayer tit with more piece of shits than any other president ever?
Wasn't the Kenyan Ghetto King the first president to spend more on piece of shits than on our military?
Barack Obama: Welfare King
Obama Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama

The only link that wasn't to some piece of shit publication was the first link to a Forbes article from October 2010, just as the economy was about to turn around. As if you could turn around the mess W left him with in 18 months, especially considering his first budget started October 1, 2009.

The second link was was to CNS News - rated as a "Questionable Source". That's good manners for "fake new".

• Overall, we rate CNS News Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda and numerous failed fact checks.

Your last link was to the Moonie Times.

• Although the Washington Times has a very strong right editorial bias, they report straight news with a much lower bias. Therefore, we rate them Right-Center biased overall, and factually mixed due to poor sourcing, holding editorial positions that are contrary to scientific consensus, and failed fact checks.

I notice that the links you conservatives post are almost ALL rated as Questionable due to failed fact checks. This is the essence of "fake news" and cannot be believed or trusted. Your dismissal of all MSM on the basis of bias, (which in most cases is slight).

Anybody with even limited reading comprehension can read a biased piece and recognize the "point of view". But we can't determine whether the facts which form the basis of the conclusions are false. Conservatives search the internet for sources who support their point of vew and facts be damned.

If all your sources are lying about the facts, or twisting them with half-truths, how do you know their conclusions are valid? The answer is, you don't. You're trusting that they're right. If your basis premises are lies, your conclusions can't possibly have any bearing on reality.

Conservatives don't care about truth because the truth isn't on your side. Your lies about health care, social spending and, and the economy are destroying the country, and continually repeating the same lies doesn't change the outcome on your failed and failing policies. Repeating the same lies over and over and drown out the truth may convince people that cutting taxes creates jobs and helps the economy, but cutting taxes does not and has not every created jobs, or paid for itself. The first two times ended with a stock market crash, and a recession. The third time will not be the charm.

You could always refute my claims with contradicting links....Because you said so isn’t all that convincing.

I did refute it with the graph. Liberals on this board have posted graphs for jobs, stock market and GDP. They all look the same. The recovery started in 2010 and continues unabated. Just go along with whatever economic bullshit Trump spouts even though very little is true.

 

[charwin95]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

Fake news.

Prove it Bud.

 

[Dragonlady]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Was the Kenyan Chimp investigated when he loaded the taxpayer tit with more piece of shits than any other president ever?
Wasn't the Kenyan Ghetto King the first president to spend more on piece of shits than on our military?
Barack Obama: Welfare King
Obama Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense
Food stamp president: Enrollment up 70 percent under Obama

The only link that wasn't to some piece of shit publication was the first link to a Forbes article from October 2010, just as the economy was about to turn around. As if you could turn around the mess W left him with in 18 months, especially considering his first budget started October 1, 2009.

The second link was was to CNS News - rated as a "Questionable Source". That's good manners for "fake new".

• Overall, we rate CNS News Questionable based on extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda and numerous failed fact checks.

Your last link was to the Moonie Times.

• Although the Washington Times has a very strong right editorial bias, they report straight news with a much lower bias. Therefore, we rate them Right-Center biased overall, and factually mixed due to poor sourcing, holding editorial positions that are contrary to scientific consensus, and failed fact checks.

I notice that the links you conservatives post are almost ALL rated as Questionable due to failed fact checks. This is the essence of "fake news" and cannot be believed or trusted. Your dismissal of all MSM on the basis of bias, (which in most cases is slight).

Anybody with even limited reading comprehension can read a biased piece and recognize the "point of view". But we can't determine whether the facts which form the basis of the conclusions are false. Conservatives search the internet for sources who support their point of vew and facts be damned.

If all your sources are lying about the facts, or twisting them with half-truths, how do you know their conclusions are valid? The answer is, you don't. You're trusting that they're right. If your basis premises are lies, your conclusions can't possibly have any bearing on reality.

Conservatives don't care about truth because the truth isn't on your side. Your lies about health care, social spending and, and the economy are destroying the country, and continually repeating the same lies doesn't change the outcome on your failed and failing policies. Repeating the same lies over and over and drown out the truth may convince people that cutting taxes creates jobs and helps the economy, but cutting taxes does not and has not every created jobs, or paid for itself. The first two times ended with a stock market crash, and a recession. The third time will not be the charm.

You could always refute my claims with contradicting links....Because you said so isn’t all that convincing.

Reputatable sources don't usually put out stories saying something didn't happen, and they don't bother investigating "fake news" or proganda. There are enough real things that need investigating.

 

[iceberg]

Going fishing again.

Hey, the turd may stick to the wall this time.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

And we want to put these fools in charge of our health care ?????

 

[sparky]

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

~S~

 

[charwin95]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

What did I say? Farmers need aid for 2019.


Trump signals he's prepared to give farmers more federal aid

 

[charwin95]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

Fake news.

Prove it. Just wondering where you get all that fake news when you have a the real facts in front of you.

 

[miketx]

More corruption from the Trump Swamp...


GAO launches investigation into Trump aid for farmers

The Agriculture Department (USDA) pledged $12 billion in aid in 2018 and an additional $14.5 billion in 2019.

One study found that between disaster aid, trade aid, insurance indemnities and the trade assistance, almost 40 percent of farm income was coming from some sort of aid.

Stabenow raised concerns that the aid distribution was being decided by political considerations, with larger payouts going to Trump-voting red states in the South. She also had questions over whether USDA's methods for dispersing aid were preventing waste, fraud and abuse.

USDA has also taken heat for trade-related aid payments to the subsidiary of a Brazilian corporation under criminal investigation.


Add to that....the bulk of the aid is going to large corporate farms:

Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers: advocacy group

More than half of the Trump administration’s $8.4 billion in trade aid payments to U.S. farmers through April was received by the top 10% of recipients, the country’s biggest and most successful farmers, a study by an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.


Trump Hails New Farm Aid Billions As Report Reveals Money Helps Wealthy, Southerners | HuffPost

Figures show that 95% of top payment rates are going to farmers in the South, even though they have been less affected by the trade war with China, and that significant payments have been made to wealthy farmers and foreign corporations, the report noted.

Five Southern states receive the highest payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. All voted for Trump, all but Georgia voted overwhelmingly for him. The analysis determined that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most by the trade war.

The report accused the Agriculture Department of doing nothing to direct aid to struggling small and medium farms, and farmers just starting out. Instead, the agency doubled payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships. The report also lashed the aid program for making commodity purchases from foreign-owned agricultural conglomerates, including $90 million paid to a subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS SA.

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

Fake news.

Prove it. Just wondering where you get all that fake news when you have a the real facts in front of you.

You vermin don't accept proof and there is very little if any proof on this board.

 

[charwin95]

Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration.

You said: "Trump’s is truly a corrupt, dishonest, and failed administration."
​

Don't you folks who claim Trump's bad go after him a lot only to find out you were wrong?

And instead of apologizing to President Trump when he is innocent of indecent lies your party invents, you come up with another Orange Made Bad assertion that is phony baloney.

*yawn* This time you don't get to beat up on him. The press is beginning to realize it no longer has a reputation, because all their former audience has their channel changed to Fox News.

Thanks for a nothing false charge just like the last few hundreds of false allegations against Orange Man Bad..

I’m sorry my dear but GAO is a non partisan part of government. That has nothing to do with democrats. We are just bring it up a work of a corrupted disgusting dishonest president.

I know truth hurts. Why should we switch to Fox News? A news media controlled by Trump like a dictator.

Why should we apologize? Trump should apologize for being a hypocrite pathological liar and corrupted to this country.

Trade wars caused a lot of farmers to go bankrupt in 2019 about 20%. Farmers they owned for generations they loss it because of this VERY STUPID very stupid trade wars that they will never get it back.

Companies like Caterpillar or John Deere had to laid off employees because of low or no sales of farming equipments.,

So what happened to the $28 billions ($12b + $18b) bail out?

Do not be surprised if they need another bail out for 2019.


Farm Bankruptcies Rise Again

Fake news.

Prove it. Just wondering where you get all that fake news when you have a the real facts in front of you.

You vermin don't accept proof and there is very little if any proof on this board.

I did and we did but you didn’t like what you read. Nothing but facts and reality. Sadly. If you have anything or something to rebuttal why not speak out. Instead of giving me your one liner usual post. Talking about vermin.