tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post7157940966346804856..comments2024-03-28T15:57:48.782-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Bill Crawford: Are Mississippi Farmers the Next Government Dependents? Kingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78717976050602268882020-07-22T12:50:46.606-05:002020-07-22T12:50:46.606-05:0012:38 is half right. But somebody picks those cro...12:38 is half right. But somebody picks those crops, processes that poultry, drives it to the store and stocks it on the shelf or delivers it to the restaurant, and then cooks it and serves it to you. Since almost none of those essential occupations pays enough to live off of (much less raise a family or go to school), we subsidize employer profits by subsidizing labor with our tax dollars. We have socialism for corporate losses and capitalism for corporate gains. <br /><br />"Free market for thee but not for me." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-54909134362840859992020-07-20T16:26:14.929-05:002020-07-20T16:26:14.929-05:00Wasn't there a momentary presidential candidat...Wasn't there a momentary presidential candidate up around New York who said 'All you gotta know about farming it to sling out some seeds and wait'? That's about what most of you lettuce-heads know. And you wear a cowboy hat that ain't never seen dust. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-6331418218047788262020-07-20T05:45:15.787-05:002020-07-20T05:45:15.787-05:00YOU might 'slog through' one inch mud on y...YOU might 'slog through' one inch mud on your way to deer camp in your SUV, but, one doesn't 'slog through' gumbo, 8:35. You call somebody with a tractor and a chain. Shows what the hell you know. Axle Deep In Anguillanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-84827388286487647382020-07-19T22:18:12.558-05:002020-07-19T22:18:12.558-05:00The old saying, when it comes to the government an...The old saying, when it comes to the government and business, is if it moves tax it. If it continues to move regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it. That is the governmental approach to everything.John Stennisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-77206087710948452272020-07-19T21:45:29.918-05:002020-07-19T21:45:29.918-05:00I doubt that writer and comment makers have very l...I doubt that writer and comment makers have very little knowledge of farm or other subsidy in that most everything has some sort of subsidy. Do away with all of them it will make things cheaper for a while but it will catch up.<br />Planes, trains, buses, solar, windmills, banks, farms, oil, tax brakes, ect. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-38092173959549778352020-07-19T21:12:05.837-05:002020-07-19T21:12:05.837-05:00It’s called the “Mississippi Christmas Tree” sons ...It’s called the “Mississippi Christmas Tree” sons and daughters of farmers have farming entities in their names to draw off the farm subsidy checks, (while they’re in college most of the time and never having set foot on a combine or tractor”. It’s knowing how to work the system!!!<br />When the system breaks down , we break down.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-42516763294417007632020-07-19T21:09:58.332-05:002020-07-19T21:09:58.332-05:007.33 is right you know. 7.33 is right you know. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-52883813965143232452020-07-19T20:35:53.710-05:002020-07-19T20:35:53.710-05:007:54 - the "last couple of years"?
Ch...7:54 - the "last couple of years"? <br /><br />Check your stats - its the last dozen decades.<br /><br />In the Carter years, the profit was made through the losses - borrow it and refinance everything..<br /><br />And don't tell me about that gumbo in the delta, 3:56 - that gumbo made plenty of farmers, and Joh n Deere dealers, and Ford Truck dealers, and everybody else that 'slogged' through it - rich while the rest of the taxpayers were told to feel sorry for them because of (take your pick, not limited to one per year) the drought, the floods, the rain, the heat, the prices, the ......<br /><br />Jim Eastland was proud of his accomplishments for his buddies, mostly big boys that had 'lots of the gumbo'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-25417948912724147622020-07-19T19:54:32.894-05:002020-07-19T19:54:32.894-05:00In last couple of years if farmed a couple thousan...In last couple of years if farmed a couple thousand acres Or so you couldn't lose rain, flood or tariffs you always took home a living. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-62409122947555228062020-07-19T19:33:20.959-05:002020-07-19T19:33:20.959-05:00Bill Crawford is such a pathetic hypocrite.
A rea...Bill Crawford is such a pathetic hypocrite.<br /><br />A real journalist and an honest person would be raising hell about what is probably the single biggest one time short term scam in American history…the paycheck protection program (PPP).<br /><br />But Bill Crawford won’t tell the truth about this scam, because his leftist pals all supported it.<br /><br />And by the way, has Robert Foster said a word about the PPP… a government program that has paid out billions and billions of dollars to companies that were doing fine, some even booming, that didn’t need any help making their payroll.<br /><br />Using government debt to make sure companies did not have to lay off workers is understandable since a high unemployment depression could be worse that said debt.<br /><br />But paying out 100’s of thousands, even millions of dollars to companies that suffered no income loss whatsoever, and to companies that even thrived due to the Wuhan virus, <br /><br />equates to lottery winnings to these business owners…and you can bet the farm these owners will be buying land, condos and other luxury items with their lottery proceeds…while millions of Americans suffer.<br /><br />So, let us all at least have courage to admit that when it comes to the U S of A, the words Conservative, Free Markets and Capitalism…are all hereby obsolete. <br /><br />And the deafening silence from these leaders that still have the gall to call themselves Conservatives…means you have hereby forfeited your right to ever say anything about government handouts to anybody, <br /><br />or about socialism lovers AOC or Bernie Sanders for that matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-44289498586530618842020-07-19T18:03:54.463-05:002020-07-19T18:03:54.463-05:00Bill Crawford haven’t you heard, Hemp farming wil...Bill Crawford haven’t you heard, Hemp farming will save the Mississippi agricultural business. I can remember well when we all went from cattle to Emu. Thank the Lord we switched when we did. LOL Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-46571791393296914812020-07-19T18:01:35.941-05:002020-07-19T18:01:35.941-05:00American agriculture is literally one of the large...American agriculture is literally one of the largest socialism programs in the history of the world. Farmers have been the biggest welfare recipients since USDA was started. One farmer can draw as much in welfare payments as 3 to 4,000 households combined who are on food stamps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-89226309391746103852020-07-19T17:01:22.225-05:002020-07-19T17:01:22.225-05:00As I've said, Robert St. John writes better ar...As I've said, Robert St. John writes better articles<br /> . . . and also includes some great recipes.<br /><br />Billy Crawford can't begin to come close. <br /> <br />(But his goofy rants are entertaining).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-44144554596045427152020-07-19T16:06:53.619-05:002020-07-19T16:06:53.619-05:00It’s tough work to breakdown the thoughts of a Nea...It’s tough work to breakdown the thoughts of a Neanderthal, no disrespect to Neanderthals. The guy who can’t control himself in the presence of women other than his wife now reveals that he didn’t crack open his history or economics books in school. Perhaps these are the reasons he got whooped and definitely why he should remain irrelevant in Mississippi politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-48593647550120492692020-07-19T15:56:06.849-05:002020-07-19T15:56:06.849-05:00I doubt Crawford has ever sunk up to his panties i...I doubt Crawford has ever sunk up to his panties in Delta gumbo. What the hell does he pretend to know about farming? He doesn't know one soil type from another or how to row straight or when to plant beans or harvest rice. Oh, wait..He read a poem one time by Willie Morris. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-42778774911942104522020-07-19T14:46:17.576-05:002020-07-19T14:46:17.576-05:00Crawford is on point this week - both in his '...Crawford is on point this week - both in his 'hyperbolic rant' description of the idiot in DeSoto that tried last year to show us his ignorance and doubled down this week and in his description of the latest farm subsidy.<br /><br />But this is nothing new, just a new twist on the same thing that has been going on for most of a century: first the New Deal programs, then the paying to not plant, replaced by a disaster loan program that Carter turned into a stimulus program, write off of those 'loans', ethanol idiocy and now today the latest subsidy. And don't even get into the dairy industry. Or the school lunch programs.<br /><br />US Agriculture does feed the world but its 'farmers' that used to farm the land now farms the programs. <br /><br />Nothing new here - except of course the ranting from the libertard of Desoto County.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78378814376805701142020-07-19T13:49:22.260-05:002020-07-19T13:49:22.260-05:00Mmmm yes master can I please have some more cornso...Mmmm yes master can I please have some more cornsoy plastic diabeetus cancer.<br /><br />Thank you and please brainwash my children to hate themselves and me while I watch sportsball and take my pills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-28224616189606797392020-07-19T12:50:42.069-05:002020-07-19T12:50:42.069-05:00This is spot on. If the subsidies cut off, then n...This is spot on. If the subsidies cut off, then not only does the MS farm economy collapse, but the national farm economy collapses. This results in thousands of farmers going bankrupt and big farm growing. This will lower prices and increase productivity across the board. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-30254010900805245812020-07-19T12:38:08.629-05:002020-07-19T12:38:08.629-05:00Farmers grow our food. Welfare recipients grow mor...Farmers grow our food. Welfare recipients grow more welfare recipients. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-21578848628349490652020-07-19T12:33:12.919-05:002020-07-19T12:33:12.919-05:00Don’t you worry your pretty little head about this...Don’t you worry your pretty little head about this. <br />Just keep them checks a coming. <br />This is business. <br />You wouldn’t understand it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-35538619800285143852020-07-19T12:19:42.505-05:002020-07-19T12:19:42.505-05:00With all of the subsidies, aren't they already...With all of the subsidies, aren't they already?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com