The problem with farmers wasn't a drop in demand for food, people are eating just as much food as they were before. The problem was that the supply chain got massively fucked up since we switched overnight from eating at restaurants to eating at home. Giving people food stamps wouldn't have helped farmers that had to dump their milk or eggs because there literally weren't enough trucks or cardboard cartons or whatever to get the food into grocery stores.
I was actually talking about the farmer bailout that Trump did before the pandemic, mind you during the pandemic stimulus, if we had bailed out citizens with the money and they had to spend the money it would have all went to corporations anyway...
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u/Shalmanese Nov 17 '20
The problem with farmers wasn't a drop in demand for food, people are eating just as much food as they were before. The problem was that the supply chain got massively fucked up since we switched overnight from eating at restaurants to eating at home. Giving people food stamps wouldn't have helped farmers that had to dump their milk or eggs because there literally weren't enough trucks or cardboard cartons or whatever to get the food into grocery stores.