I am amused by the number of posts from friends in agriculture have posted of a similar bent, as if our industry hasn’t been the beneficiary of staggering amounts of “free” government money thanks to the current Administration.

We have zero credibility on this issue, friends. https://twitter.com/TheChadColby/status/1328445480192372738

To put this into context, *40%* of net farm cash income will come from federal farm dollars this year, the largest share in 20 years: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-farmers-aid/trumps-payments-to-farmers-hit-all-time-high-ahead-of-election-idUSKBN2741D4

Listen, it’s fine if fiscal conservatism is our default setting, but this nonsense of screeching SOCIALISM (usually demonstrating you do not actually know the definition of socialism) while also lapping up bailouts because of Trump’s idiotic trade war is a bad look.

Ditto this bald partisan thing where we (fellow Republicans) ignore the deficit and the national debt while a Republican is in office, and then 24 hours after the election suddenly become budget hawks again.

Sam makes a reasonable argument against student loan forgiveness: that it’s not a particularly good form of stimulus.

Sadly, most of what I saw today was some variation of “I paid muh loans, dadgummit!” or “Stupid liberal arts majors deserve to suffer!” https://twitter.com/farmersam5488/status/1328545935249473536