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Tiktok video: https://www.tiktok.com/@cattlemenfamilyfarms/video/7467698017559170350
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Mr. Farmer, when trump talks about finding fraud in government, he’s referring to USAID paying you for your farm products. You are the waste he is referring to.
This dude doesn’t mention Trump or Republicans once during the entire video. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if somehow he blames this on the previous administration. I’ve already had multiple conversations blaming any adverse effects from Trump’s decisions on Biden and the Democrats in a similar fashion.
In the TikTok video, no, but in the BlueSky video, he mentions he voted for Trump. Although, your point most likely still stands, because he doesn’t place blame.
Why does America subsidize so much corn?
Lots of reasons. Generally its not just corn but soybeans too. Essentially the USA has optimized its supply chain for producing massive amounts of corn and soybeans and bringing them to market. The subsidy is to ensure that USA capacity to produce enough food for its populace irrespective of geopolitics or world economies. We never want to be in a position where we aren’t ramped up to feed our population entirely. If you overproduce, you can always get rid of the excess. If you underproduce, at least a portion of your population goes hungry. That cannot be allowed to happen. The ancillary benefits are things like USAID that use the overproduction as expressions of Soft Power around the world in the form of nutritional aid.
Most of this corn is not meant to be eaten though.
The majority of corn is eaten. A less than majority percent is used for industrial uses and ethanol production. Is that where you were going?
USDA?
No, they meant what they said. USAID buying their products to feed starving people around the world. USAID was killed by Elon/Trump. They estimate six million people around the world could starve. USAID was 0.6% of the federal budget.
Oh, that poster was trying to correct me saying USDA instead of USAID? You’re right of course, I meant USAID, NOT USDA. USAID is (was) a large purchaser of farm products which it would send around the world feeding starving populations. USAID is (was?) a giant customer of US Farmers buying up huge amounts of grains. It would purchase $3B in agricultural commodities giving a huge injection of cash to US Farmers.
Whats your question here?