Reminder that the vast majority of people in the US who call themselves farmers are capitalists and often landlords, ranging from petty bourgeois try-hards that pat themselves on the back for riding a combine to those who do basically no farm work. And all of them depend on worker exploitation, usually undocumented immigrant labor because they can abuse them the most.
They are at risk of... not being profitable. They want their usual financial bailout and are going to the media for help. Part of this is reduced demand over Trump's trade war but don't forget that this is around the end of harvest season, the big time for labor, and they have been failing to find enough labor at dirt wages due to inflation and terrorizing immigrants. According to capitalism, they should be increasing prices and paying their workers more, but that would be less profitable than free money from the government.
"Half a century ago, when Marx was writing Capital, free competition appeared to the overwhelming majority of economists to be a 'natural law'. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly. Today, monopoly has become a fact. Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that 'Marxism is refuted.' But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not. The facts show that differences between capitalist countries, e.g., in the matter of protection or free trade, only give rise to insignificant variations in the form of monopolies or in the moment of their appearance; and that the rise of monopolies, as the result of the concentration of production, is a general and fundamental law of the present stage of development of capitalism."
where one smug lib commented that these farmers should become homeless because it would do them some good. 
They just love showing their contempt for the homeless, and how much they fantasize of punishing those who did not vote for Copmala.
egans stay winning?
