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America’s family farmers were astonished last year to get a jolly tweet from the President of the United States: “Have fun!” exclaimed The Donald.Fun? The farm economy is in the ditch, with crop prices at depression levels and bankruptcies surging. Plus, Trump Inc. has been rigging the law to give agribusiness monopolies more power to run roughshod over farmers and rural communities.Well, yes, say the billionaire “geniuses” and partisan hacks who’ve seized control of farm and food policies, but our phantasmagoric laissez-fairyland ideology will open up new agricultural markets here at home, so see? Fun!Keep Jim calling out billionaires →Those [...]
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