Guys I'm gonna be really honest here. Rural area management of federal programs is a lot of where the money goes. Maintaining social safety net programs in low density areas is very expensive, it's why comparing the US to Europe is so stupid.
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If you wanted to save a lot of money in the federal government, a way to do it would be to annihilate rural economies and force micropolitan and urban flight where programs can be administered far more efficiently.
This is like, almost hitting on a conspiracy theory level of "it makes you think" levels, and I know that, but seriously, would you be doing literally anything different right now if this was your plan?
For everyone who's saying "He's killing the farmers because he doesn't need their support anymore": he might not, but Republicans do. They're slow-walking Stefanik's UN nomination because they need her vote in the House:
That's what happens when the party is run by car dealers & dentists in the 'burbs more than farmers & teamsters. And to get even more conspiratorial, they want to force what's left of small farmers to sell to megadonors in Big Ag that can weather the tariffs.
Man, 0% of what they're doing suggests they're aware Big Ag *exists*, much less concerned about its survival. You could not design a government policy more intent on destroying agriculture in the US if you tried.
Yeah, these idiots live off of other people making and delivering all their food for them. I don't even know if any of them heated up their ramen in college.
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(At least any of the post war ones)
The true welfare queens.