1/ The betrayal of rural America, particularly the American farmer, began in the 1980s. Before then, local banks worked to support a farmer through a bad yield year, and generous government loans often came with grants for rural communities.
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2/ Starting in the 1980’a the corporatization of agriculture - Big Ag - began its treacherous rampage across the rural heartland. Corporate conglomerates turned farmers into serfs on their own land, destroying topsoil and destroying lives.
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3/ Poverty rampant among farmers & suicide rate higher than average. Farmland controlled by corporate leaders who never even walked the land; 30M acres held by foreign investors. Repubs have duped our farmers and too often Dems have ignored them. Definitely support @JDScholten!

Jul 6, 2020 · 1:23 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @SG_Calcio @JDScholten
Both parties are funded by those who benefit from concentrations of wealth. Ergo...
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Replying to @marwilliamson @matthewstoller @JDScholten
MY PRESIDENT
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JDScholten
So true. youtube.com/watch?v=9AWwXoqW…
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JDScholten
Already following. Think I’ve already followed every one of your endorsements. Particularly that one in CA-12. Yiiiiiiiaaaaasssssiiiirrrr #noMoPelosi
Replying to @marwilliamson @JDScholten
Small farmers have been taking it in the for years probably since 1900 or earlier but I know a couple farmers who measure their forms and hundreds of square miles the only thing that I know the pricing them is the politicians in Washington
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JDScholten
Don't forget Nixon changed the stabilizing national grainery to a handout. In boon years, farmers would store their grain in a grainery as collateral for a loan - kept prices higher. In famine years, they could sell their stored grain - reducing starvation, keeping prices low.
Replying to @marwilliamson @HopeBegley @JDScholten
Saudi owns tons of land in AZ to grow alfalfa for their horses. Our water table level is already crazy low. And it keeps getting worse. But these guys have endless money to dig deeper and deeper.
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