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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsn't Trump's cash payment of $12 billion to farmers straight up Socialism??!?!?!
Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2018, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)
Why isn't this called "Socialism"? Someone please explain. Thank you.
--Edited to correct the amount given to farmers.
lame54
(35,321 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Well it's Trump so it can't be socialism according to Trump humpers. He created a problem in order to try to solve it in time for midterms.
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)jcgoldie
(11,645 posts)We don't even call it welfare.. DUH!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)when they were really sick and had nothing for care. They'd say crud like, "I'm not like those other people (with a hateful look on their face)." It was tough biting my tongue and not saying what I thought or smacking them.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Corporate white wingers.
vi5
(13,305 posts)What presidential power is allowing him to just dole out 12 million to a certain area?
Should I make my normal snarky comment about how "The president doesn't just have those kinds of powers!!!!" and "The president can't do anything unless congress acts first!!!" and my personal favorite "The president is not a dictator!!!"
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)they should from that program. It will come at the expense of others, like always.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You know, like other indigent recipients of government benefits? We don't want government money supporting druggies, do we?
markses66
(94 posts)That's how they like it for others!
Be on the look out for opioids.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)"Major Majors father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a longlimbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism."
- Catch 22
Link to tweet
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)It's effectively a bribe.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)Socialism is the government owning and directing the means of production. A payment to farmers is neither.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)0rganism
(23,970 posts)also, $12 billion not $5 billion
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Since she knows so much about it.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)lol