5d ago

Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America

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Summary

Federal funding cuts under Trump, including a $500 million program for food banks to buy local produce, are hitting rural communities like Rainelle, West Virginia, especially hard.

Dairy producer Trey Yates lost a key contract with Mountaineer Food Bank, threatening his business. Similar stories emerged from other small farmers relying on USDA grants now eliminated.

West Virginia, where Trump won 70% of the vote, relies on federal funds for over half its state budget.

Critics warn cuts will deepen poverty, strain schools, and devastate local agriculture-dependent economies.

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And they would vote for him again.
- And that’s why I simply refuse to continue to fuckin’ care about what happens to those idiots.
- That’s the thing. I’ve worked in lots of rural construction. Their ideology is that he’s the Christian choice, the ideological choice, the choice that will save capitalism. You cannot sway them from these beliefs, even as they starve.
  
  Then let them starve.

where Trump won 70% of the vote
You were warned... You did it anyway.
It's what you wanted... It's what you got.
Suck on it. And choke.
I've no sympathy for you suffering the results of your stupidity.
🙄 🙄 🖕 🖕
- on Reddit
  old habit die hard

I live in a very rural part of the country, my job is in the mining industry and it’s basically tied to the price of minerals and oil. I have a feeling my job and town will be hit extremely hard by all of Donny’s ideas.

West Virginia, where Trump won 70% of the vote, relies on federal funds for over half its state budget.
Half their budget? They are welfare queens and/or socialists, take your pick.
- Yep. You want to slash the Federal budget? Making red states and billionaires pay their fair share will go a long way.
  And you won’t have to fire Federal workers to do it.
  Of course that would only work if they gave a shit about the budget as opposed to whatever the fuck this governmental smash & grab this is.
- And yet they're all convinced that red states are the ones that keep the blue states afloat.

I'm not happy they brought us all down with them. I'd rather there be less suffering than more, even if they are stupid.

I hope the leopards tear them to shreds as they come crawling back, begging for the left to save them

"Hey, rural conservative voters. Here's what his track record is, and here's what he's *actually * admitted he'll do. The policies will harm you and your families. Voting Republican would be like shooting yourself in the foot."

*rural voters blast off entire foot with 12 ga. shotgun*
- It's because people had the nerve to make them feel stupid by telling them something they didn't know or were previously wrong about.
  They showed us.
- Have to shoot off my own foot before I can run faster.

My folks live out in the rural Midwest and even they think the rural community gets what they voted for.
May they have the day they voted for.

Good I hope they feel the pain of their own political choices.

That sounds like a double whammy to piss of voters. They definitely act as if future elections wont matter anymore.

Too bad they can’t read.

"Ripple"
That's a big misnomer, there. How 'bout those egg prices, Karen?

Oh no! Anyway, is anyone else looking forward to Andor season 2?
- As a person who is not comfortable sucking Disney’s cock fuck no I’m not
  
  Piracy
  
  I'm not going to let Disney bother me over the best Star Wars thing I've seen in the last 40 years (presuming it maintains season 1 quality), but enjoy what you like!

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