Merry Christmas American Farmer

[the big wheel]

We are not competing on an even playing field so there isn’t a free market battling with subsidies.

Trudeau, David Suzuki Society and the NFU want to give a huge carbon tax for Christmas.

WCWGA and the seed industry are promoting a seed tax for the seed industry,

Until you admit that it doesn't matter what government is in us farmers have no one representing us we will lose more and more power. If there is any left to lose.
But sumdum is right if we got off our asses and stopped petty politics and make some noise we still hold the cards. Imagine picking one company out of a hat to not deliver grain to? Or one input company out of a hat not to buy inputs from unless we get some of our demands.

[chuckChuck]

Trump raises the temperature on a trade war and US farmers become collateral damage. He throws US soybean farmers some compensation to make sure they don't stop voting for him.

The US is running nearly a trillion dollar deficit. None of what he is doing is sustainable nor fits with a free market philosophy in which capital and jobs go to where the best profits are.

Conservatives in the US and Canada seem to be abandoning their support for free markets and less government intervention and are arguing for more government intervention in the economy to protect industries that are not competitive.

There is a lot of complaining on this site about corporations whose job it is to maximize profits for shareholders. Farmers shouldn't be surprised when they get squeezed by a "free" market system that many support in principle.