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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries. 
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right? 
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately. 
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you. 
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby. 
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA? 
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it?  I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?[/quote]

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world![/quote]

I find your long mansplain pretty condescending and the fact that you direct it " joe farmer" as if there are any small time family farms owned by individuals left in America. You should have written: dear Monsanto, do you not realize when you voted for Trump he was gonna can your subsidies ? Hmmmm maybe Monsanto doesn't vote....and farmers as a constituency were told to F off by Reagan in the 80's.

Lastly, since you seem to think the world can't survive without 50 Billion a year in welfare in form of USAID, how did " the world" manage for thousands  of years before USAID was created in 1961 ? One wonders....

Maybe they weren't dependent on US aid, maybe their birth rates/ survival rates were lower and their countries less crowded and more sustainable .

Maybe the invention of artificial Nitrogen fertilizer wasn't such a good thing for the Earth or world stability ??? But you preach to us some more since, at age 28-35 ( my guess) you seem to know so much[/quote]

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