If Trump's tariffs are not taxes paid for by Americans, and Trump's economy is doing so great that affordability is not an issue, then why do American farmers need a $12 billion bill out?
I think there were enough locusts, LOL. Regarding the 12 Billion, it's not only not enough, apparently in the (EO or whatever) it lists a lot of other row crops that aren't soybeans! Sorry farmers, the find out is going to be even worse this time around.
On top of it being cold where you are, I hope you don't have snow or ice for your jaunts to the bus stop and therapy. Too bad I can't ship you a Clay sized bubble of the good weather we are having in SoCal.
They don't look like locusts, which have four wings, else I wouldn't have called them flies in another post. (Flies are Diptera, which are characterized as having a single pair of wings. Aphids, beetles, ants, bees and butterflies have two pairs.) Anyway, I enjoy your curmudgeonly responses to both my "corrections" and, especially, to the Trump regime. Your recovery puts the lie to that of the senator from PA (Fetterman), who says his stroke enlightened him and put him on a path to the right and thus justifies his unqualified support for Israel and for making obscene deals with the Tangerine Tyrant (because it's the responsible thing to do./S) He's NOT the little man's candidate. And never has been. A vote for Jones is a vote for FUN.
May a plague of locusts attack Mar-a-Lago and destroy Trumphuk’s golf course. The Pharquad doesn’t know Jack about how Americans are doing economically … A millionaire cum billionaire scamming with crypto and bribes is totally removed from the rest of us. Why does this so-called base not see this?
For many years I have prayed for a sinkhole under Maga Lardo. Not very nice of me, but it is better than some things I could pray for Pharoah Cheato. Also, he already hurt farmers at the beginning of this administration by canceling USAID. Much of the food that was provided was raised right here in the USA. Not to mention that cutting funding for any programs that deal with vaccines, AIDS, or other healthcare issues pretty much guarantees that these health problems will reach our shores. Germs don't respect borders.
They don't all have to look like locusts. We get the point. You are doing fine, and keep up the good work. We are just glad you are back doing what you do best and that you are getting better each day.
No way on earth am I walking in 18 degrees! It's 56 right now, and that's cold enough, thank you!
Glad you're walking a bit more. Please be careful. As a former New Yorker, I used to walk fast. Now, at 74, I have to walk slower. If I move too fast, I'm liable to get dizzy. A few weeks ago, I took a eye/ear/sight/balance test (ENT?) because I was getting very slight vertigo once in a while. Test - all good. The tech told me that as we age, our eye/ear/brain coordination ages as well. So, lesson is go slower and think a bit more. Now, if my little Nomi (my avatar) would stop trying to run a race every time we walk, it would be easier. :-)
As for your typing - let me put it this way. If I tried to draw a stick figure, my results would be a heck of a lot worse than your typing attempt! Your drawing? A chef's kiss from someone who can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
Eva, the inner ears (which affects a lot of balance) and eyes have a strong neural connection. That is why they look at them together. Vertigo can have many causes. As we age, the fluid in the semicircular canals of the inner ears can become thicker (sometimes due to dehydration). There are little crystals in that fluid that brush on nerve fibers with every movement of the head. When the fluid becomes thick, the crystals lag behind in their movement. So our eyes are giving our brain one signal and our inner ears are giving a different one. Thus, vertigo. There are a number of other causes of vertigo. Some easier to fix than others. With a stroke, balance problems often come from a combination of things. Of course, the best thing is to respect the balance issues and use the proper assistive device depending on the surface you are walking on and the circumstances. Apologies for the long share. I retired from my 30+ year career as a Physical Therapist Assistant 5 years ago, but my brain automatically goes back to it regularly. Don't even get me started on the state of healthcare.
A year or so ago, I ended up in the emergency room with extreme vertigo. Woke up about 3 am, so dizzy I couldn't sit, lie down, never mind walk. I had a couple of small attacks of it for a week or so before that, but nothing like that day. They took CT Scan, X-rays, blood, urine, 2 different IVs, and sent me home with Zofran and anti-nausea pills. And no diagnosis. Went in to Kaiser the next day. The PA asked if they looked in my ears - about the only thing they didn't look at! She did, and I had an un-diagnosed bad ear infection. Antibiotics took care of it. I had thought it was one of my BP meds - my BP went through the roof for several weeks, like 190+/80+. We were trying different BP meds. But no one looked in the ears. I had no pain or other ear problems, so I was rather surprised. Since then, I've had 2 MRIs, at least 2 more CTs, eyes/ears/throat exams etc. Everything fine. So I appreciated that the tech doing the ENT (actually a series of tests on my eyes, ears, etc. that I can't pronounce) had given me an explanation that made sense of the past 2 years. I'm doing fine - just have to remember that I'm not 20 any more (or even 50), and do things a bit slower. And no jumping out of bed without letting the rest of me figure out I'm awake! My mother was always rushing into her 70s and ended up with painful fractures of ribs, pelvis, even 2 vertebrae because she kept moving too fast and falling. BTW, she was a horrible patient - showing off when the therapist was there, and not doing anything the rest of the time. Didn't help that she was sundowning a lot.
Eva, I go about once a month to a massage therapist for myofascial release work for my back, neck, arms, legs, well, everything. I was taking a trip that meant 4 hours in the car each way over two days. I scheduled an appointment with another therapist because there is a 3-4 week wait to see my regular one. She was wonderful, but I went to get up afterwards and nearly fell on the floor. It took me 4 tries to sit up. I have never had anything like that happen (at least not sober and not since I was in my early 20s. It was a bit of a nightmare for the next week and a half. Turning over in bed meant I would be clutching he mattress to keep from falling off (in the middle of the bed). Fortunately, I already had an appointment the following week with my regular therapist and we tried some things that slowly resolved the vertigo after about 4 days. We finally realized that I was developing a sinus cold and it had backed up into my ears enough to cause a problem.
Thank you for your artist's take on this situation. Don't be hard on yourself, you're doing quite well. The reality is that you will be the main driver of your recovery. Your dedication to regaining your strength and life back is now firmly in your own hands. This is you now and you've got this no matter how tough things get in the coming months. Love the locusts and the effort. Sending you good energy and warm weather thoughts. 💜
Not sure you could fit another locust in there. And I won’t send you any of our “&!”@“ weather. It’s -30, my cars hatch door is frozen shut and there are squeaky noises coming from underneath🤬
Yes! Love hearing the update on your progress! Don't push yourself too hard--and 18° IS too cold. Good toon and blog. It IS hard to feel sorry for farmers--they voted for this....and we are all paying the price. Keep on❤️
More than enough locusts. Pretty good blog, but there's something you have to realize about farmers.
And, before I say it, I've got to preface with the fact that I was born on a tenant farm, I lived there for more than twenty years, I was more than old enough to be voting and have political opinions when I left. Plus, I was smart enough to look around and pay attention to what people were actually DOING vs what they were SAYING!
There is nothing the typical farmer likes more than a big fat government check. This is a fact. It is a fact supported by many years of observation. It is a fact supported by history and precedent. It's just a fact. Forget all that garbage you've been fed about "proud and independent", farmers as a whole love them a government check.
There are exceptions, but not many of them, and most are objecting on religious grounds (Amish).
You think 12 billion is a lot for farm aid? Try this:
In 2021, more than 34 percent of U.S. farm households received Government payments. Totaling $14.3 billion, these payments went to farms of three types. About 75 percent of commercial farms—those with $350,000 or more in gross cash farm income (GCFI), as defined by USDA, Economic Research Service — received Government payments. For intermediate farms—defined as those with less than $350,000 in GCFI and a principal operator whose primary occupation is farming—31 percent received Government payments. Finally, Government payments went to 29 percent of residence farms, those with less than $350,000 in GCFI and where the principal operator is retired from farming or has a primary occupation other than farming. Among the farm households that received Government payments, commercial farms received an average $66,314 in Government payments in 2021 (the most recent year for which data are available); intermediate farms received an average $12,794 in payments, and the average Government payments for residence farms was $8,354.
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Of course, Biden was POTUS then, so the media didn't mention it. That would be playing politics, and it would be wrong of them to say anything about it. That's only DIRECT payments.
The next year it was 16.5 billion.
If Democrats don't start screaming about what they are doing, ESPECIALLY on social media, they're just going to lose and lose and lose.
Please note that those are only direct payments. Solely and only. I did not count subsidized crop insurance, I did not count the cost of export programs, I did not count subsidized loans or loan guarantees. None of that. I just went for direct cash payments.
I did slap AI Gemini with the question "total agriculture subsidies counting crop insurance and cost of subsidized loans" but it said "this is a really complex issue" (it is) and crapped out with "easily exceeds 50 billion dollars total". I think that's quite a bit short, really.
No, locusts, you're not antifa, you're antifalfa.
I think there were enough locusts, LOL. Regarding the 12 Billion, it's not only not enough, apparently in the (EO or whatever) it lists a lot of other row crops that aren't soybeans! Sorry farmers, the find out is going to be even worse this time around.
On top of it being cold where you are, I hope you don't have snow or ice for your jaunts to the bus stop and therapy. Too bad I can't ship you a Clay sized bubble of the good weather we are having in SoCal.
I don’t think you could put any more locusts in there!
I love the John Deere hat. My dad had all John Deere equipment, and he would be appalled at what is going on.
They don't look like locusts, which have four wings, else I wouldn't have called them flies in another post. (Flies are Diptera, which are characterized as having a single pair of wings. Aphids, beetles, ants, bees and butterflies have two pairs.) Anyway, I enjoy your curmudgeonly responses to both my "corrections" and, especially, to the Trump regime. Your recovery puts the lie to that of the senator from PA (Fetterman), who says his stroke enlightened him and put him on a path to the right and thus justifies his unqualified support for Israel and for making obscene deals with the Tangerine Tyrant (because it's the responsible thing to do./S) He's NOT the little man's candidate. And never has been. A vote for Jones is a vote for FUN.
I'm sorry they don't all look like locust, but try to remember that I had a stroke.
May a plague of locusts attack Mar-a-Lago and destroy Trumphuk’s golf course. The Pharquad doesn’t know Jack about how Americans are doing economically … A millionaire cum billionaire scamming with crypto and bribes is totally removed from the rest of us. Why does this so-called base not see this?
For many years I have prayed for a sinkhole under Maga Lardo. Not very nice of me, but it is better than some things I could pray for Pharoah Cheato. Also, he already hurt farmers at the beginning of this administration by canceling USAID. Much of the food that was provided was raised right here in the USA. Not to mention that cutting funding for any programs that deal with vaccines, AIDS, or other healthcare issues pretty much guarantees that these health problems will reach our shores. Germs don't respect borders.
Green Acres!!!! Love it!!! Did you draw all those locusts by hand????
Yes, I did.
They don't all have to look like locusts. We get the point. You are doing fine, and keep up the good work. We are just glad you are back doing what you do best and that you are getting better each day.
Chef's kiss!!!!!
No "Quiet, Piggy!" here!
That pig should be allowed to vote before that farmer should.
You drew all those locusts? Impressive! Very excellent toon and blog.
No way on earth am I walking in 18 degrees! It's 56 right now, and that's cold enough, thank you!
Glad you're walking a bit more. Please be careful. As a former New Yorker, I used to walk fast. Now, at 74, I have to walk slower. If I move too fast, I'm liable to get dizzy. A few weeks ago, I took a eye/ear/sight/balance test (ENT?) because I was getting very slight vertigo once in a while. Test - all good. The tech told me that as we age, our eye/ear/brain coordination ages as well. So, lesson is go slower and think a bit more. Now, if my little Nomi (my avatar) would stop trying to run a race every time we walk, it would be easier. :-)
As for your typing - let me put it this way. If I tried to draw a stick figure, my results would be a heck of a lot worse than your typing attempt! Your drawing? A chef's kiss from someone who can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
Stay warm!
Eva, the inner ears (which affects a lot of balance) and eyes have a strong neural connection. That is why they look at them together. Vertigo can have many causes. As we age, the fluid in the semicircular canals of the inner ears can become thicker (sometimes due to dehydration). There are little crystals in that fluid that brush on nerve fibers with every movement of the head. When the fluid becomes thick, the crystals lag behind in their movement. So our eyes are giving our brain one signal and our inner ears are giving a different one. Thus, vertigo. There are a number of other causes of vertigo. Some easier to fix than others. With a stroke, balance problems often come from a combination of things. Of course, the best thing is to respect the balance issues and use the proper assistive device depending on the surface you are walking on and the circumstances. Apologies for the long share. I retired from my 30+ year career as a Physical Therapist Assistant 5 years ago, but my brain automatically goes back to it regularly. Don't even get me started on the state of healthcare.
A year or so ago, I ended up in the emergency room with extreme vertigo. Woke up about 3 am, so dizzy I couldn't sit, lie down, never mind walk. I had a couple of small attacks of it for a week or so before that, but nothing like that day. They took CT Scan, X-rays, blood, urine, 2 different IVs, and sent me home with Zofran and anti-nausea pills. And no diagnosis. Went in to Kaiser the next day. The PA asked if they looked in my ears - about the only thing they didn't look at! She did, and I had an un-diagnosed bad ear infection. Antibiotics took care of it. I had thought it was one of my BP meds - my BP went through the roof for several weeks, like 190+/80+. We were trying different BP meds. But no one looked in the ears. I had no pain or other ear problems, so I was rather surprised. Since then, I've had 2 MRIs, at least 2 more CTs, eyes/ears/throat exams etc. Everything fine. So I appreciated that the tech doing the ENT (actually a series of tests on my eyes, ears, etc. that I can't pronounce) had given me an explanation that made sense of the past 2 years. I'm doing fine - just have to remember that I'm not 20 any more (or even 50), and do things a bit slower. And no jumping out of bed without letting the rest of me figure out I'm awake! My mother was always rushing into her 70s and ended up with painful fractures of ribs, pelvis, even 2 vertebrae because she kept moving too fast and falling. BTW, she was a horrible patient - showing off when the therapist was there, and not doing anything the rest of the time. Didn't help that she was sundowning a lot.
Eva, I go about once a month to a massage therapist for myofascial release work for my back, neck, arms, legs, well, everything. I was taking a trip that meant 4 hours in the car each way over two days. I scheduled an appointment with another therapist because there is a 3-4 week wait to see my regular one. She was wonderful, but I went to get up afterwards and nearly fell on the floor. It took me 4 tries to sit up. I have never had anything like that happen (at least not sober and not since I was in my early 20s. It was a bit of a nightmare for the next week and a half. Turning over in bed meant I would be clutching he mattress to keep from falling off (in the middle of the bed). Fortunately, I already had an appointment the following week with my regular therapist and we tried some things that slowly resolved the vertigo after about 4 days. We finally realized that I was developing a sinus cold and it had backed up into my ears enough to cause a problem.
Thank you for your artist's take on this situation. Don't be hard on yourself, you're doing quite well. The reality is that you will be the main driver of your recovery. Your dedication to regaining your strength and life back is now firmly in your own hands. This is you now and you've got this no matter how tough things get in the coming months. Love the locusts and the effort. Sending you good energy and warm weather thoughts. 💜
Stay warm.
Not sure you could fit another locust in there. And I won’t send you any of our “&!”@“ weather. It’s -30, my cars hatch door is frozen shut and there are squeaky noises coming from underneath🤬
Yes! Love hearing the update on your progress! Don't push yourself too hard--and 18° IS too cold. Good toon and blog. It IS hard to feel sorry for farmers--they voted for this....and we are all paying the price. Keep on❤️
More than enough locusts. Pretty good blog, but there's something you have to realize about farmers.
And, before I say it, I've got to preface with the fact that I was born on a tenant farm, I lived there for more than twenty years, I was more than old enough to be voting and have political opinions when I left. Plus, I was smart enough to look around and pay attention to what people were actually DOING vs what they were SAYING!
There is nothing the typical farmer likes more than a big fat government check. This is a fact. It is a fact supported by many years of observation. It is a fact supported by history and precedent. It's just a fact. Forget all that garbage you've been fed about "proud and independent", farmers as a whole love them a government check.
There are exceptions, but not many of them, and most are objecting on religious grounds (Amish).
You think 12 billion is a lot for farm aid? Try this:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2023/may/commercial-farms-led-in-government-payments-in-2021
In 2021, more than 34 percent of U.S. farm households received Government payments. Totaling $14.3 billion, these payments went to farms of three types. About 75 percent of commercial farms—those with $350,000 or more in gross cash farm income (GCFI), as defined by USDA, Economic Research Service — received Government payments. For intermediate farms—defined as those with less than $350,000 in GCFI and a principal operator whose primary occupation is farming—31 percent received Government payments. Finally, Government payments went to 29 percent of residence farms, those with less than $350,000 in GCFI and where the principal operator is retired from farming or has a primary occupation other than farming. Among the farm households that received Government payments, commercial farms received an average $66,314 in Government payments in 2021 (the most recent year for which data are available); intermediate farms received an average $12,794 in payments, and the average Government payments for residence farms was $8,354.
* * * * * *
Of course, Biden was POTUS then, so the media didn't mention it. That would be playing politics, and it would be wrong of them to say anything about it. That's only DIRECT payments.
The next year it was 16.5 billion.
If Democrats don't start screaming about what they are doing, ESPECIALLY on social media, they're just going to lose and lose and lose.
Please note that those are only direct payments. Solely and only. I did not count subsidized crop insurance, I did not count the cost of export programs, I did not count subsidized loans or loan guarantees. None of that. I just went for direct cash payments.
I did slap AI Gemini with the question "total agriculture subsidies counting crop insurance and cost of subsidized loans" but it said "this is a really complex issue" (it is) and crapped out with "easily exceeds 50 billion dollars total". I think that's quite a bit short, really.
I think you needed to put in a few more locusts! ;-)