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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
(35,287 posts)spanone
(135,830 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
(34,169 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 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
(36,422 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
(146,288 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 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
(57,425 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
(13,101 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)It's effectively a bribe.
former9thward
(31,997 posts)Socialism is the government owning and directing the means of production. A payment to farmers is neither.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)0rganism
(23,944 posts)also, $12 billion not $5 billion
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)Since she knows so much about it.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)lol