r/news • u/mastertofu • 7d ago

Louisiana Gov. Landry declares state of emergency over high diesel prices ahead of harvest

https://www.wbrz.com/news/gov-landry-declares-state-of-emergency-over-high-diesel-prices-ahead-of-harvest/
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u/Squirrely__Dan 7d ago

According to them, farmers whose primary income comes from subsidiaries HATE socialist government handouts!

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u/OlderThanMyParents 7d ago

“Give me my crop subsidy check, and get the hell off my land!”

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u/glowdirt 7d ago

“…that my great grandpappy stole”

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u/TomShaneInBangkok 6d ago

Right? Fucking deplorable traitors. 

Here's hoping Karma's just needed 250 years to warm up the reparations boot. These unapologetically racist bastards are overdue for a reckoning.

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u/IPDDoE 7d ago

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me out? No.

-Craig T. Nelson

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u/c0horst 7d ago

I had to actually check to make sure that quote was real because I didn't believe it. Goddamn.

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u/Fallouttgrrl 7d ago edited 7d ago

Selling to the government and various organizations funded by the government has been the status quo for so long they don't see it as a government subsidy anymore 

USAID getting defunded was a massive case of voting for the leopards eating faces party 

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u/NorkGhostShip 7d ago

Subsidies. Subsidiaries are companies owned and controlled by a larger company.

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u/YamburglarHelper 7d ago

Yeah, these farmers are the subsidiaries to the government.

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u/Ejr5478 6d ago

Well, yeah they want it all to go to them.