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In It to Win It

(11,496 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 07:01 PM Yesterday

Arkansas farmers are pleading with US government to save them -- many face bankruptcy. Here's what Trump is offering

Arkansas farmers are sounding the alarm claiming that a deteriorating global economy and soaring costs are pushing them to the brink of disaster.

As tariffs begin to bite, the state’s farmers are pleading for emergency funding [1] as they stare down bankruptcy and foreclosure.

Hundreds of farmers recently took their pleas to Arkansas’ congressional delegation in Brookland, a community in the northeastern part of the state.

“If there’s no emergency funding this year, there will be one out of three farmers who will file bankruptcy,” said Chris King, a Woodruff County farmer who attended the event.

The farmers clearly see their situation as dire. Here’s what’s going on.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-farmers-pleading-us-government-193000999.html
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Arkansas farmers are pleading with US government to save them -- many face bankruptcy. Here's what Trump is offering (Original Post) In It to Win It Yesterday OP
What? People pictured the FO part of FAFO as mild embarrassment? Girard442 Yesterday #1
Some will suicide Attilatheblond Yesterday #2
Seems like some have developed a dependency on emergency funding. taxi Yesterday #3
They wanted welfare cuts...let them have welfare cuts JT45242 Yesterday #7
The whole world is hungry, why dont they grow something people need? Fichefinder Yesterday #9
Bravo! Aristus 23 hrs ago #11
All while they claim about black and brown people JI7 22 hrs ago #18
Remind us again who most of them voted for Freddie Yesterday #4
Trump voters begging for socialism? Mysterian Yesterday #5
Too bad they couldn't see their situation last November. sinkingfeeling Yesterday #6
They voted for TACO twice. Hell with them. marble falls Yesterday #8
Yep, the leopards can have them. Volaris 23 hrs ago #10
They made their bed. Lie in it. Blue Full Moon 23 hrs ago #12
Yum! Faces - my favorite!! hatrack 23 hrs ago #13
Have any of them blamed Dear Leader yet? Ilsa 23 hrs ago #14
Yes, that'll happen right before they blame themselves and their own political choices . . hatrack 23 hrs ago #16
Leopards...faces LR3 23 hrs ago #15
It would be interesting odins folly 23 hrs ago #17
No bailouts, especially if it's to the people that voted for this. Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #19
Theyll get bailouts... BlueWaveNeverEnd 22 hrs ago #20
The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION Mysterian 21 hrs ago #22
Thoughts and Prayers? madinmaryland 22 hrs ago #21
Hey MAGAS. Are ya "great again" yet?? B.See 21 hrs ago #23

Attilatheblond

(7,103 posts)
2. Some will suicide
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 07:13 PM
Yesterday

Some may turn violence to others

Food prices will keep climbing as Big Ag buys up more and more of the farmland.

taxi

(2,471 posts)
3. Seems like some have developed a dependency on emergency funding.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 07:13 PM
Yesterday

Haven't we all heard it said time and time again that once these people get on welfare they never get off? You go out into the country and all these welfare farmers are driving around in new trucks, all decked out with tinted windows and nice wheels. They've all got the latest side-by-sides and UTV's, 44 gun safes, and they drive around in air-conditioned tractors listening to who knows what. In the mean time hard working Americans in blue states are paying their way and the government isn't doing anything about it.
I say they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get rid of all those expensive toys, and start working harder.

JT45242

(3,596 posts)
7. They wanted welfare cuts...let them have welfare cuts
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 07:19 PM
Yesterday

I'll bet they overwhelmingly voted for mango Mussolini so that he would hurt black or brown people.

Fafo is setting in.

Aristus

(70,717 posts)
11. Bravo!
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:41 PM
23 hrs ago

About fucking time someone put reality into terms even the hillbillies can understand.

Well said!

JI7

(92,513 posts)
18. All while they claim about black and brown people
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:39 PM
22 hrs ago

complain about some black kid with a phone and other shit.

Ilsa

(63,196 posts)
14. Have any of them blamed Dear Leader yet?
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:18 PM
23 hrs ago

I don't want to hear a word from them until they own their fuckups.

hatrack

(63,447 posts)
16. Yes, that'll happen right before they blame themselves and their own political choices . .
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:19 PM
23 hrs ago

. . . i.e. never.

LR3

(54 posts)
15. Leopards...faces
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:19 PM
23 hrs ago

And they will still for a Republican next time, too, because brown people exist.

From the article:
Farmers like Trump’s tariffs
Despite the uncertainty caused by the tariffs, American farmers still see the president’s flagship policy as a long-term win.

A May survey by Purdue University of American producers found that 70% believe the tariffs will ultimately strengthen their industry [7].

odins folly

(463 posts)
17. It would be interesting
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:34 PM
23 hrs ago

If they were asked, what exactly makes the tariffs a “long term win”?

I doubt any one of them could explain anything about the tariffs….


And then some voice on AM hate radio will tell them they are going bankrupt because of the Dems….

Mysterian

(5,890 posts)
22. The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:11 PM
21 hrs ago

so they will surely borrow billions from China et al to give these farmers a handout. But don't call it welfare.

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