55 Replies to “The Times, They Are A Changing”

    1. All farmers almost everywhere are total subsidy whores. In the case of the Dutch farmers, they are also pollution kings.

          1. UnMe, your pathological hatred of your betters who refuse to be herded into high density shoe box apartments and mass transit is showing again.

      1. Hospitals and the medical system are also “total subsidy whores” but as a society we understand that certain sectors are a too important to allow them to collapse.

          1. If you’re saying money is wasted in the medical system, I agree. Far too many non-medical staff. The same is true of agriculture. For instance, subsidising dairy farmers to dump milk.

            I was responding to your blanket statement and your “total subsidy whores” insult in reference to food production. Some sectors, food production and healthcare, are what progressives would call part of the common good. We need food like we need a healthcare system…survival. Some subsidies are probably necessary but not all.

            – this is not an endorsement of the current Canadian healthcare system. The system is fatally dysfunctional.

          2. The mess of a medical system is caused by one thing….the Canada Health Act and the Bolshevik system.

          3. I was referring to the US healthcare system actually though granted that’s at least a productive mess unlike Canada’s DeadZone of a healthcare system. Half of US healthcare spending is government money. Medicare/aid are much of why US healthcare is so messed up.

          4. So now … subsidizing nitrogen reduction … and subsidized housing (from eminently domained land) is in vogue?

  1. In addition to the attempt to ban certain fertilizers, the European Union approved $1.6 Billion to purchase the farm land out from under the farmers. They claim it to be “voluntary.” But, when the Dutch Government (through the European Union) instills conditions that make it impossible to operate the farms at a profit, what choice does a farmer have?

    This entire effort by the EU and the current Dutch government is of a larger nature. Eco concerns are just the tool being used. For example, another tool now starting to be applied towards farmers is “eminent domain.” In South Dakota, a company called Summit is attempting to use eminent domain to acquire the land of eighty (80) farms in South Dakota. Summit Carbon Solutions, a CO2 carbon capture company. Whatever the hell that means. At the last World Economic Summit, there was even a panel that discussed the benefits of using eminent domain to close down farms (attended by a whole slew of investors and billionaires, I might add).

    You WILL eat bugs.

  2. I knew the unDORK would be posting in here, and proves he has never ever worked on a farm!
    So unDORK, just shut the EFF up!

    1. “Why do you continue to deal with him? He posts under several sock puppets. Scroll on past.”

      Agreed, Thomas….UnMe is low-hanging fruit whose only purpose here seems to be to troll us. This inane attack on farmers reminds me of his “Let’s open our borders and allow millions more illegal immigrants in!” schtick.

  3. 15 or so years ago, methanol was subsidized at the rate of $31 in subsidies for every dollar paid at the pump.

    When certain demographics collect welfare for food, that would be double dipping.

  4. Again: get back to me when Milei starts throwing pedophile priests and their Marxist toy boys into the Atlantic.

    Argentina is a basket case because it’s full of Argentinians. Jewish Argentinians need to get themselves to Israel, where things actually work, because Israel is run by Jews.

    The Italians who speak Spanish, pretend they’re French and are as creditworthy as Lebanese can reap what they’ve sowed over generations of irresponsibility.

  5. Looks like a right-wing insurrection. After all, there are no burning cars, no destroyed buildings, no attacked police, no armed militia. All the hallmarks of a RW insurrection for sure.

  6. Useful people are getting angry. The system depends on them. These will be protests to remember, unlike the useless class that has made performance art out of getting in the way.
    There are only two sides.

  7. So when does Canada get to rejoice or are we stuck in this hell until there’s a third generation Trudeau Prime Minister?

  8. The barley subsidy policy of the Alberta government (long ago stopped) is what built the feedlot industry’s and packing viability.
    Hard to say if it would ever have happened without it. No doubt it caused pain in other ways.
    So subsidies can be a tool to get an industry underway.
    But should always have a sunset date.
    The present misguided “green” subsidies of the lieberal government shouldn’t even start.

    1. The assumption here is that if a subsidy gets an industry built that it is good thing. And that is hardly the case. It is likely that Alberta would have simply done something else not at taxpayer expense and more valuable.

  9. Ref Javier Milei. Do you figure he’s received his congratulatory call from turdo yet?

  10. Those tractors are so quiet that I would almost suspect they’re battery powered, if this wasn’t SDA!

    I guess the Dutch farmers are protesting draconian fertilizer restrictions, imposed by their climate hysterical politicians? That’s certainly relevant for Canada.

  11. CHON.
    Carbon, hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen.
    The most basic ingredients of life.
    1st they banned carbon, now they are trying their luck with nitrogen.

    They are an evil that makes all predecessor evils, like NAZIs and Commies pale to insignificance.
    They are truly anti-life, Goodlife, as Saberhagen’s Berserkers would have called them, much in the same way our medial lauds them.

  12. Im sure the EU will put them in a pillowcase and drown them in the nearest river.. You have no idea what you’re up against.. Or even what you are, little kittens..

    1. Indeed. The west demands ever more comfy pillow-cases into which to be drowned, and when they give us a feather mattress, we call that a “victory.”

  13. Many countries need a guy like the one in Argentina.
    If for nothing else, just to shake up the plebeians to snap out of nothingness.

    \\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz95y3gLNA4

    1. Vito, Agreed, but when the US did it with Trump, the left went in to overdrive to get rid of him, and are still rabid about him now. I suspect the same will happen in Argentina as well. Also, don’t forget what happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil. The left are evil and mentally deranged, and most in many countries, are too lazy to notice, let alone stand up and be counted, to avoid the left stealing votes and cheating their way to victory!

  14. President Javier Milei of Argentina:

    … “We are not above those we represent. We are not worth more than the people. We only exist as representatives because the people exist. It’s delusional to think a representative of the people is above the people themselves but that’s where the political caste lives. No longer. When your representative screws up, no longer will the honest Argentine suffer the consequences alone. The politician must pay the price. Their privileges are over.”

    … “ I did not come here to guide lambs, I came to awaken lions. They are shouting for freedom and will devour thieving politicians, prebendary businessmen, unionists, and any who betray the people. They will devout those in the media who were functional to all the thieves who kept the party going. They will do away with the eco-frauds who only advocate for the religion-of-the-state because they can rob it. Argentina is waking up. Slavery is not a good deal and there is a better life, which is to live as free men.”

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