Thanos Thanos:
1) I think we should help the farmers and ranchers because the work they do is critical to the survival of society
2) I also think that farmers & ranchers who receive government aid should also not join up with far right-wing politicians who want to gut any and all assistance for the social enemies of conservatives - if conservatives are gonna get some gravy courtesy of the taxpayer, most of whom live in cities, then they shouldn't be rushing off all the time to screw over someone else who needs help just because some utterly malicious social conservative politicians have convinced them all that it has to be done "because if we don't then the world is gonna end!".
I have absolutely no problem with giving aid to our farmers and ranchers, but your comment about conservative politicians reminds me of something that always bothered me about the way Stephen Harper handled the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board.
Why was he so hell-bent on giving it away to the Saudis for a song when there were Canadian farmers willing to pay a higher price and run it as a voluntary co-op? The public purse would have gotten a bigger bang for its buck and we would have had more domestic control of our food production.
The funny thing is, here in central Alberta it rained so much last year that I never even had to take my garden hose out of the basement. I mentioned this to some older friends of mine when we were discussing the droughts, and they said to me that while some farmer friends of theirs were fretting this year about their crops scorching in the heat, last year they were fretting about their crops drowning in all the rain we were getting.
Maybe it's a hopeful sign that this is just a really bad year and that things might be better in 2022. I remember how bad the drought was 20 years ago here in Alberta, where people were organizing the "Say Hay" benefit concerts to transport hay from Eastern Canada to help out Western farmers.
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