Jackson Jambalaya

The all popular raising the "victim card." It's very fashionable and effective in these "woke" times.

That guy must be a narcissist. He and his bank allegedly wrecked the lives and livelihoods of a lot of farmers in the delta, and he' playing the part of the victim. Rich

Why are these farmers worried? The government ALWAYS takes care of farmers. Price subsidies, crop failure insurance, tax breaks etc. Their kids go to private schools and drive those jacked up four-wheel drive pickups. There's an old joke up in the Delta: Q: What's the difference between a poor farmer and a rich farmer? A: The poor farmer only takes ONE European vacation each year.

KF isn't far wrong. GWD has it's share of folks who don't take lightly to getting screwed. It hasn't been but a very few years that one fellow got his head hung under a dump bed and another got shot in the middle of the night in his own house. That's not even counting the recent law office shoot out with auto weapons. If I were Mr. Coleman, I'd be in a self imposed "witness protection program" right now.

That grain elevator may not make it to spring.

Should an IT guy with no business or farming background be president of a company like this. (Hint-hell no)

@9:57

“ allpopular raising the "victim card." It's very fashionable and effective in these "woke" times.”

I don’t think that’s new

'Should an IT guy with no business or farming background be president of a company like this. (Hint-hell no)'

Who better to cook the books than an IT guy?

So is this large chunk of change sitting in equipment, was it snorted, was it gambled, or is it overseas?

What's this world coming to? You steal from people and they want your head on a platter...weird. Who could have predicted that? It's almost like some strange "eye for an eye" thing or something.

"It hasn't been but a very few years that one fellow got his head hung under a dump bed and another got shot in the middle of the night in his own house. That's not even counting the recent law office shoot out with auto weapons. If I were Mr. Coleman, I'd be in a self imposed "witness protection program" right now."

Some strange murders in Greenwood, starting with the Leflore County Country Club Murders in the 70s up to the recent man who murdered his wife and two friends at her birthday party (technically in Carroll County).

How much of those funds ended up in a certain Congress-critter's accounts?

You can take it to the bank that there is a grain of truth to this story

12:50 you are out of touch with reality. How comfortable is the cotton shirt you are wearing? How about the cotton sheets you sleep on? I realize this is about grain and not cotton but it amazes me how keyboard cowboys are so quick to think farmers have it made. In other private industries are prices set by the government? Crop failure insurance, flood insurance. This is the same as other businesses getting insurance to protect thier assets. I would tend to bet you are not leveraging your house and possible land if one is fortunate enough to own and not lease on making a descent crop. I would assume you go to your 9-5 job and collect your check with benefits on a bi-weekly basis. It would be a good exercise to really watch and learn what all a farmer does before spouting off.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if something happens to them for what they did. Banker too. That’s not lunch money we are talking about. Word is Wade has had cancellations on some big ticket equipment orders. People end up wearing concrete shoes in the river for this type stuff. Theft, pure and simple, and was allowed to be bigger than it could be by the banks greed.

What’s a dump bed? Sounds awful.

What's new about threatening to whup the ass of someone who wrecks your livelihood? Next?

"Why are these farmers worried? The government ALWAYS takes care of farmers. Price subsidies, crop failure insurance, tax breaks etc. Their kids go to private schools and drive those jacked up four-wheel drive pickups. There's an old joke up in the Delta: Q: What's the difference between a poor farmer and a rich farmer? A: The poor farmer only takes ONE European vacation each year."
November 25, 2021 at 12:50 PM

You're mixing your cliches. The private school set who go to Europe, are NOT the set who drive the jacked-up scumbuggies. I doubt that you care about accuracy, though, since you seem to have been hired to demonize Delta farmers. One can guess who hired you, and why.

As for that "old joke", unless you've dug-up a lame literary quip from pre-1925 (the year of the Cotton Panic which ended the Delta's golden era), you're LYING. I've been around Delta people since '82, and have not heard that "joke" or anything similar.

Delta farm families EARN their money (when they make money: frequently, low crop prices preclude profit). It's a capital-intensive/low-profit-margin BUSINESS, which requires a high degree of education, hard work, and LONG HOURS. The farmers (Possessing BAs in Agronomy or Business, at minimum) work from before-dawn, and into the night. Wives (who seem, these days, to all have postgraduate degrees or certifications) work off the farm (as insurance against destitution, should something happen to the farm - or the farmer), but typically drive farm equipment during harvest/weekends/holidays, etc. The kids help, too.

Private schools, in the Delta, are not optional - unless you consider the other options to be: not having children, or MOVING AWAY. If your farm fails to make money (because, no: the government does NOT "always take care of farmers"), you have no option other than to move far away (to a place where public schools are not violent hellholes). I have to wonder how many more families will be leaving the Delta, because of this latest disaster.

OK, dude...so he got it wrong. The jacked up pickup set doesn't go to Europe annually. They go to Destin, Aruba and Cozumel (each) annually. You feel better now?

I remember one of “your” president’s first visits after becoming president. Was to the collapsed condo in Fla. He stated after looking at it, “of course we (the government) are going to pay for it.”. I have no idea what happened after that statement.

@ 3:45 So YOU haven't heard the joke, therefore it couldn't possibly exist and I just now made it up? Well, the other version of that joke goes that the poor Delta farmer "only buys ONE new Cadillac each year". Maybe you've heard that version. I've been around the Delta since the early 60s, and was graduating high school there about the time you pulled in, in 1982.

I have to wonder how many more families will be leaving the Delta, because of this latest disaster.

None, unless there is some other/additional motivation. The feds will find the money in the latest infrastructure bill or somewhere else to make these guys whole, or very nearly so. Or give them some sort of special tax credit that allows them to recoup the loss over a number of years. That's assuming they don't get made whole in the lawsuit that's pending.

Don't misunderstand -- I'm not saying that the farmers deserved this; they don't. But it's no different than every other "Po' ole farmers gonna lose they farms" victimhood ploy that goes around in the Delta most every year when it doesn't rain enough or rains too much or freezes sooner than expected.

Express Grain defrauded everyone, including its lenders, all of whom will lose millions.

10:19 - Would you care to comment on Bennie's successful effort to shut down the pump project? Do you also suggest the gubment will make all those Delta Farm Folks whole? Or are you just pumping B.S.?

If you were, as you suggest, 'in the Delta' around '62 and graduated High School there in '82....damn you must have been slow. I too grew up there and graduated high school there, but I can't think of any 20 year olds in my class. I know times have changed in them parts, but, DAYUM!

Spent most of my life around Delta farmers. Never knew or heard of one going on a European vacation.

I assume MisterDeplorable has heard the one about The Christmas Turkey. You know...he was full of crap.

I love all the knights coming in to defend the Delta Welfare Farmer Class.

Explain it any way you want--the government subsidizes and pays for your crops and has so many other programs to support it in case of failure. Welfare. No one is saying its not hard work to get paid by the government.

It is funny how corporate welfare and farmer welfare is fine, but welfare for the poorest is not.

The 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one is talking about is the doctor who owns 99% of Express Grain.