Arkansas Farmers Beg Uncle Sam for Help

Sunday, September 07, 2025

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis. Almost everything that could go wrong for Arkansas farmers went wrong this year, leaving many facing bankruptcy or even the closure of farms that have been passed down for generations. A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there's little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs -- on top of bad weather earlier in the year.

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A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there's little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs

Everything the decomposing------------------- touches dies.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-06 01:18 PM | Reply

Pretty ------ economic system if one dumbass can bring the whole thing down.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 01:20 PM | Reply

Pretty ------ form of government that elects someone to be that dumbass, knowing full well he intends to bring the whole thing down.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 01:21 PM | Reply

On Tuesday, 5 Nov 2024, 64.20% of eligible Arkansans voted for Dummkopf Trumpf. In 2020: 62.40%; in 2016: 60.57%.

Racism and xenophobia really pays off, doesn't it Arkansans?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-06 03:40 PM | Reply

Farm subsidies warp the free market.

They provide perverse Incentives.

The discipline of the free market will restore sanity.

Some people Will get hurt unfortunately.

Voting for a Criminal has Consequences.

So does being Stupid....

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-06 06:28 PM | Reply

Farm subsidies warp the free market.

There is no such thing as a "free market".

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The assertion "there is no such thing as a free market" is a critique arguing that all markets are inherently regulated and shaped by human-made rules and institutions, making a truly "free" market, one without government or political influence, a theoretical impossibility. Arguments for this view highlight that a functional market requires a state to enforce property rights and contracts, and that even markets considered "free" are built on regulations (like minimum wage laws, bans on child labor, or safety standards) and are subject to the influence of powerful entities like corporations and wealthy individuals.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-06 06:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

---- off Russian ----

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-06 07:46 PM | Reply

#6 That sounds like the stuff Snoofy says.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-06 08:09 PM | Reply

Too bad so sad. How's it feel to pwn us intellectual liberals Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ROFLMMFAO HEHEHEHEHE THAT'S HILARIOUS.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-06 08:11 PM | Reply

Point and laugh at the magat scum.

Eat ---- and die America has no room for takers.

Enjoy what you voted for

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-07 12:19 AM | Reply

Well, MAGAts, you can (and do) live, breathe, and vote ignorance and hate.
But you sure can't eat it.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-07 05:15 AM | Reply

F*&^ 'em.

People like them whine about having to "bail out" student loan holders.

Now they're whining about their own bailout.

Too bad. If you're a miserable, ignorant dips*&^ you reap what you sow.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-07 12:05 PM | Reply

"Arkansas Farmers Beg Uncle Sam for Help"

They can join ICE and get a $50K handout.
What's the problem?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 12:16 PM | Reply

"People like them"

This us-vs-them mentality is why the top .01% have been able and will continue to fleece the rest of us.

Whether it's red vs blue, or urban vs less densely populated areas, or different countries, or whatever, it's always easier to blame the other while claiming the higher ground.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-07 12:19 PM | Reply

This us-vs-them mentality is why the top .01% have been able and will continue to fleece the rest of us.

Which is by design and the way they like it.

And now regardless of what you voted for we all get to enjoy the Great FAFO.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-07 12:47 PM | Reply

I'm just as unhappy as anyone else about how most of these farmers voted. But if they don't get help it will simply put their property and even more power into the hands of oligarchs. The best thing Federal Dems could do is unite behind a relief package, and make sure the farmers know who is working hardest for them to get the help.

#16 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-07 03:12 PM | Reply

"But if they don't get help "

Are they gonna ask for help from Democrats, or just from the Republican Government they voted for?

We can't make them accept Democrat help. Not that there is any, but that's a different problem!

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 03:28 PM | Reply

s.yimg.com

Why aren't they wearing their MAGA hats?

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-07 03:32 PM | Reply

#17

At this point I think they'd take help where ever they can get it. The optics of Dems looking just as vindictive as Trump are not a good look.

#19 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-09-07 04:01 PM | Reply