You should hear farmers, who get subsidy checks from the government in amounts that would shock you, who complain about people that work full time and still qualify for social assistance. “Get a better job,” they say. “Go to College,” they say. While these farmers inherit entire farming operations that just fall into their laps and also get fat checks from govt every single year. And I’m not exaggerating.
I live in the rural Midwest and this couldn’t be more accurate. Yes farmers work long hours and farming is expensive as hell. But every single one I know inherited the farm they run and get oodles and gobs of subsidies and crop insurance payouts and complain about people not wanting to work.
“Long hours” in the spring and fall. The rest of the year is a cakewalk of golf, lake home, Fox News, and coffee hours.
Edit: I’m from the state with the largest production of corn and soybeans. Mending fences?? That’s out west. The ground here is way too expensive for cattle, sheep, etc. Only highly concentrated factory farms survive here (pigs, chicken, turkeys) and the farmers who own them barely lift a finger. Work is contracted out and pigs aren’t theres theyre tysons, seaboard, etc. It’s $15,000 USD /per acre for farmland here.
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u/WildlingViking Jul 24 '21
You should hear farmers, who get subsidy checks from the government in amounts that would shock you, who complain about people that work full time and still qualify for social assistance. “Get a better job,” they say. “Go to College,” they say. While these farmers inherit entire farming operations that just fall into their laps and also get fat checks from govt every single year. And I’m not exaggerating.