Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.Almost everything that
It takes time to spin up projects and get them approved, meaning the visible progress on these sorts of bills are usually back loaded. Half of the funding was announced, but weirdly enough the person in charge of disbursing those funds isn’t Biden anymore. Who’s responsible for making sure those funds actually get disbursed now? I’ll give you a hint: if it doesn’t make it to rural America, they shot themselves in the foot.
You also didn’t address the impact that the ACA had on keeping rural hospitals afloat. I guess health care access isn’t important to farmers until they no longer have it. Neither party is rushing to increase the already pretty generous farm subsidies, but only one party is making their inputs significantly more expensive while reducing demand for their outputs. I sure hope those farmers aren’t importing potash from the neighbor that we decided to initiate a trade war with. Farmers are finding out how exposed they were to global trade markets and the asymmetric effects of retaliatory tariffs. It sure looks like Democrats have been helping farmers all along by simply not being Republican.
It takes time to spin up projects and get them approved, meaning the visible progress on these sorts of bills are usually back loaded. Half of the funding was announced, but weirdly enough the person in charge of disbursing those funds isn’t Biden anymore. Who’s responsible for making sure those funds actually get disbursed now? I’ll give you a hint: if it doesn’t make it to rural America, they shot themselves in the foot.
You also didn’t address the impact that the ACA had on keeping rural hospitals afloat. I guess health care access isn’t important to farmers until they no longer have it. Neither party is rushing to increase the already pretty generous farm subsidies, but only one party is making their inputs significantly more expensive while reducing demand for their outputs. I sure hope those farmers aren’t importing potash from the neighbor that we decided to initiate a trade war with. Farmers are finding out how exposed they were to global trade markets and the asymmetric effects of retaliatory tariffs. It sure looks like Democrats have been helping farmers all along by simply not being Republican.
Helping and exploiting have different goals even if they overlap on method from time to time.