Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Jimmy Hightower - Trump Wants Small Farmers to Clear Out for the Big Guys



This article shows how politics isn't working, because these politicians know they will get voted in anyway, one way or another, or get good jobs working for the corporations, so they don't care about the average voter.

Meanwhile, monopoly power is crushing prices. An $8 billion behemoth named Dean Foods now controls 90 percent of Wisconsin’s milk market, empowering it to commit daylight robbery, essentially stealing farmers’ product — and their farms.
Yet Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue — the one national official who’s supposed to stand up for farmers — nonchalantly kissed them off, smugly declaring it natural for the big to devour the small.
There’s nothing he can do for family operators, he says, except tell them to “go out” of agriculture.
TruthDig

1 comment:

Andrew Anderson said...

nonchalantly kissed them off, smugly declaring it natural for the big to devour the small.

But not Biblical, e.g. see Leviticus 25.

Also, a government-privileged usury cartel has played a major role in driving farmers into debt and foreclosing on them if they should be unable to pay.