About 7 years ago @MSNBC stopped by our farm. After a long interview of me explaining my libertarian/agnostic/ultra conservative view of agriculture and politics they took 1 quote from the interview asking about my view of trumps 2019 MFP payments
“Any monkey can write a check”
Our farm operation has been one of the most conservative minded in the area. We’ve squeezed the nickel so hard we grew 🌽 off its 💩, I’ve farmed with old, paid for equipment most of my life. Debt just wasn’t ever an option so we just did without.
The local community… (farmer round table) called me a “liberal”… apparently since Libertarianism sounds like… liberal IDK, and anybody that doesn’t 🦜 @FoxNews is that…
7 years later a golden tractor is in the White House lawn next to the new Ball Room. @NutrienAgRetail just reported record profits and farms are struggling like the early - mid 80’s
Check out https://t.co/5xg5rbu7z1 if you want to see what narcissism looks like.
We don’t need another check or a loan. We need real conservative solutions.
Slash all subsidies. Let the market figure this shit out…. But we’re so deeply fucked up that it would be pretty painful for a time until things balanced out.
You can’t just keep buying votes. We don’t need more 🌽. We need 🥩 processing in every county
We need the mathematics of independently owned 🐖
We need Agriculture to work again like it did before politicians let the corporations pad their pockets at the expense of the family farm.
Yesterday I laid to rest my father. The man has been my best friend since I could remember. Farm, work, pray, everything together. He died due to a highway accident and all I can say…. is be careful out there, do what you love to do, and give hugs to family while you still can🚜
@broketard@jasonmauck1@FarmGreen13@AcresUSA He plants off patent, non-GMO soybeans I believe. Couldn’t tell you the rest. I’ve listened to him before, absolutely fascinating
@PeteRicketts why is it that these great big data centers are being built in NE utilizing our public power while the parent companies are not based here? Is this hurting our energy reliability?? Are they farming NE for our affordable power and limiting our abilities?
70 years of unchecked consolidation and “get big or get out” farm policy but it was only the last four years.
Earl Butz and Ezra Taft Benson, the original architects of that policy, were Republicans.
We haven’t lost 3 million farms since the Eisenhower Administration because of Joe Biden.
We don’t want partisan blame games, @SecRollins. We want people that actually give a darn about the destruction of the rural economy and do something about it.
You know if you bought a $25 50 lb bag of wheat, ground it yourself and made bread, you could feed yourself a pound of bread a day for 50 days. 1500 calories per day for 50 cents a day.
I officially started drafting my legislation to remove property taxes on primary residences in AZ
If this passes, Arizona becomes the #1 state in the USA:
-2.5% flat income tax
-Full school choice
-2nd Amendment Sanctuary State
-Life in prison for pedophiles
-No property tax
I officially started drafting my legislation to remove property taxes on primary residences in AZ
If this passes, Arizona becomes the #1 state in the USA:
-2.5% flat income tax
-Full school choice
-2nd Amendment Sanctuary State
-Life in prison for pedophiles
-No property tax
I think this is one of the most startling and tragic statistics I have seen.
Only 12% of 30 year olds are married and own a home.
Marriage, family, and home ownership are the ultimate trifecta of security and happiness.
I hope this trajectory can be reversed.
I wish @BigIronAuctions or @auctiontime would experiment with a Q&A board under auction items for commonly asked questions. Also we can call out the amount of machinery that is bought and resold on different auctions. Found 2 Rogators in the last hour that are being resold
Shut down the U.S. Dept of Education & return $$ to the states. Enact universal school choice. Merit-based pay for teachers. No cell phones in classrooms. Bring back the presidential fitness test. Civic education & testing. There’s no silver bullet, but this is a starting point.