I'm in Louisville KY, 50 miles or so from johns hometown in Seymour Indiana,he always came to Louisville in his days starting out, and he never forgot his early fans, or where he's from, he still lives there
No matter how far the farming technologies have come including tractors that can be programmed to do the job without manpower, so much depends on the weather to be successful. Thank God for farmers for we all need them to survive! Love this song, this artist, and this reaction!❤😊
BS! Maybe back in the 80’s, he changed and became a celebrity and turncoat to his mid west values. He gave concerts supporting Obama and Hillary Clinton who mocked and screwed over middle America! Doesn’t he know they considered him a deplorable and red neck clutching his bible and gun? He’s a total fraud and sell out to the US!!
My grandfather's 1200 acre farm now has a huge Wal-Mart on it, along with a paved road and a couple fast food shops. It was heartbreaking to see this strong, life-long farmer with a 6th grade education break down. Farming was all he knew! That land had been in my family going back to the late 1700's. Unfortunately, the Farm Aid movement came too late for him, but it has helped many keep their land and continues to do so. Support your local farmers!
Thanks for a great review guys! Growing up on a corn farm in Iowa, this song has always struck hard. Every line could be from my biography. My parents held onto the farm until I graduated in 86, then had to sell out (just like most of our neighbors). Farming is a business where you have no control over your cost of production or your sale price. You just have to do the best you can and pray you make it through one season to start the next. Farming is also a lifestyle that gets in your blood and is hard to turn from. 40 years later, I'm not growing corn but raising cows instead.
This song had a HUGE impact back in the day, not only is it a brilliant composition but its message still rings ugly and true today, decades later. Greed: the killer of civilizations.
By happenstance I'm wearing my Red "Stop Factory Farms" Tee Shirt I bought at the '01 Farm Aid Concert. Neil noticed it at '07 Chrome Dreams II show...
The political sense of it is " He who controls the food supply controls the people ' and governments want TOTAL POWER . Another political reason is that farmers are the last bastion of family owned small businesses and they oppose excessive government power .
This is one of my favorite albums. It brings back so many memories. I saw John twice on the “scarecrow” tour. Once at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis and once at Indiana University Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana for little 500 weekend 1986. (John lives right outside of Bloomington)
“The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the farmers bank foreclosed They called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land He said ‘John its just my job and I hope you understand’ Hey calling it your job ol hoss sure dont make it right But if you want me to I’ll say a prayer for your soul tonight…” The government screwed him over, now he’s bankrupt. THEN they called his friend (Schepman) to auction the land for pennies on the dollar. What great line.
Here in the states the large family farm is almost a thing of the past. Corporations have consolidated their control over agribusiness. They are now moving on to housing. One economist calls it technofeudalism. We're going backwards not forward.
I have family from Indiana who are 100% these farmers, and it’s a real issue for all farming families. I love you both so much for how fully you feel this song. And I appreciate that this struggle also resonates with you in Europe-Romania and Poland in particular-because those are both places with beautiful land and wonderful crops. Love! ❤
You are correct about your assessment of John and his songs. Back in the 80’s John along with Willie Nelson and Neil Young started “Farm Aid” concerts. They were annual concerts with proceeds benefiting the American Farmer. For another really good song from John Mellencamp please react to “Jackie Brown” simple, beautiful, but deep! 😉
Glad to see John getting some reactions. He is the voice of flyover country. The mergers of corporations is a problem in every step of food oroductiin from farm to table. Farmers were hit hardest and first. He grew up in Seymour Indiana , the heart of Americas breadbasket. This album came straight from the heart.
I have lived my entire 55 years in one spot. As a kid I was country. We were surrounded by 2 lane country black tops and dirt roads. Nothing but forest and farm land. But now.... the land is covered with housing complex's and large neighborhoods. My own Grandfathers farm is now a neighborhood. There isn't anything left of my childhood growing up on that farm. They even cut down the 3 HUGE oak tree's I once played under. Every day it seems another section of land is cleared for construction and it tears my heart out to watch it happen. They call it progress.And depending upon your goal I guess it is for some people. Particularly the politicians and developers. But for those of us who have worked this land for generations it's like a part of you has died. I use to enjoy summer evening rides after dinner on the backroads. Windows down as I hear the cicadas and see the sun setting through the tree's and over the fields of corn. I no longer take those rides because it's too upsetting to see what's become of the area.
God bless you both for understanding. Sadly, big corporations have taken over much of the farming in the US. Please shop locally. Please support family farms. Thank you for reacting to this important music video. Farm Aid is a great organization in the USA.
My favorite John song. An ugly truth, and Johns take on it with an Americana view and song style is immaculate. A rebel song for farms ALL OVER the world.
This is one of John's most serious songs. John's music is definitely about life in small towns for everyday people. But, most ppl who listened to his music didn't pay attention to the lyrics/message. Again, I think you'll really like "Pink Houses"
I've seen a lot of artists in concert going back to the late 70's. Every now in then, I'd see someone that surprised me. John Mellencamp was one of those. I wasn't expecting it, but he and his band were fantastic live!
The agenda is to force private farms out of business and to transfer the farmland to giant agriculture corporations. Control the land, control the food, control the people. John Mellencamp is among my favorite artists, so talented, and so many of his songs have real substance to them. He has a fun side, also, and I urge you to explore that side of him. When you feel like dancing barefoot in each other's arms, check out "KEY WEST INTERMEZZO (I SAW YOU FIRST)" th-cam.com/video/RlMPYwGWLcI/w-d-xo.html , and if you're just in the mood for a nice, upbeat groove, listen to his cover of "WILD NIGHT" th-cam.com/video/1nPPRQeTxTY/w-d-xo.html . Both are fabulous, just like this channel. ;)
You'll notice in his music that it's just a raw barebones sound. Not a lot of studio "magic " . He said something like he wanted kids practicing in the garage to be able to reproduce the sound they hear on the radio. Always thought that was very cool.❤
Farm Aid is an annual fundraising concert that has been held every year since 1985 to support family and independent farmers. It was started by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young. Many musical artists have participated in these concerts over the past 39 years. From a 1995 Farm Aid concert, here is John with Me'Shell Ndegeocello singing Van Morrison's "Wild Night": th-cam.com/video/p3hryCMN8rw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dUeb5ojfXQYOTICH
Not sure if you've heard of it, but in 1985, John and country legend Willie Nelson organized an annual benefit concert, that still happens today, called Farm-aid, to help wherever they can in the USA. Here, the government & corporations are edging the farmer out of business on a major scale. Generations of farming families have lost their livelihood AND LOST THEIR LAND, that had been in their family for generations.
In order to have a fresh tomato year round we must buy from other countries because the tomato grows at certain times of the year, so we must buy from other countries. Other fruits as well, many foods are like that.
John's later works are brilliant. Tunes like Key West Intermezzo, Dance Naked, Jacki Brown,....and on and on. For a great tune about personal relationships check out his tune "Check it Out." .
This song from John cougar rain on the scarecrow to this day chokes me up, because I to had a good friend like family that lost his land upstate NY in the Adirondack mountains USA. Now he's forced to live in the city and separated from loved ones. What gives bro?
One of the goals of capitalism (perhaps unintended), is to put the means of production into fewer; and larger farms. Fewer and larger corporations. "Get big, or get out"
Young person trying to start out as a farmer today. $2,000 - 4000 and acre. You need 1,000 acres to keep up, so $4,000,000 input just to own land. Another $4 million in equipment. And ever 5-10 years have to buy equipment to replace what you had. Farmers are still working from start to the end of their lives to pay it off in the hopes MAYBE they can pass it on to a child that wants to farm. Which, oh right their kid will have to pay a huge tax on when they inherit it. They never get any of that back. It is all sunk cost. Why you see so many farmers working til they are 70-80 years old. The only way my father's farm was paid off was him dying and my mom collecting life insurance to pay off the debt.
The U.S. government involved in farming is very complicated. As many genuine problems as there are the crop insurance and disaster aid is always accepted
In 2022, the median wealth of a US farm household was $1,376,404, while households that operated commercial farms had a median wealth of $3.5 million. This is significantly more than non-farming families, with commercial farmers having a median net worth that is 23x the median American family net worth. Obviously this video is 38 years old but farmers take off of hard working Americans, they are given billions in subsidies they don't even need. At least 10,000 farmers took over $11B in farm subsidies over 39 consecutive years. Under Trump, Farm Subsidies Soared and the Rich Got Richer. Subsidy payments to farmers ballooned from just over $4 billion in 2017 to more than $20 billion in 2020 - driven largely by ad hoc programs meant to offset the effects of President Trump’s failed trade war with China.
It has been happening all across North America Andrei and Domenika for decades now. Politicians just want cheaper food so they can gain votes from city dwellers. Politicians who have likely never worked hard 14 or 16 hour days for many years on end just to try to make ends meet like farmers and ranchers do. It is little wonder we have such leaders who are completely divorced from reality. In Canada we have a prime minister who was born a multi-multi millionaire who knows nothing even of a working life, having only ever been a replacement drama teacher. And now we are relying on a man and his colleagues who have never had any connection with real working people, and this country has never been in worse shape because of them. They are simply indifferent to the destruction they are creating all around them because of their corruption. They have their own fat salaries and millions stashed away. Yes, it makes thinking people angry! 🤨🤷😡
John is a Democrat in deep red Indiana. I think we know why. He has always stood up for what is right. He has to be horrified at what America has devolved into since Trump came on the scene.
My family's farm was given as a land grant for his service in the Revolutionary War by Continental Congress in 1780 to my grandfather 8 generations back . For 8 generations we owned and farmed that land until the TVA built a dam on the river and put our entire farm at the bottom of a lake . .They government used their " eminent domain " law to FORCE us to sell them our land AT THEIR PRICE . That land had been in the family for EIGHT generations . We were the only ones to EVER own that land .That is PART of why I trust the government in everything they do and want to give them even more power ( yeah right ) Incidentally , I have been growing an all organic vegetable garden on MY land for more than 50 years , no chemical fertilizer,no pesticides , no herbicides , no hybrids or GMO plants . I compost lawn clippings, leaves , and al bio-degradable kitchen waste by feeding it to my worms and when they are done , I spread the compost with the worm castings on the garden for fertilizer . I am currently growing tomatoes, snow peas, green beans , yellow beans ,3 varieties of peppers , Swiss chard, cucumbers , garlic , beets , and carrots . All of them taste MUCH better than the vegetables one buys at the store and they are much healthier to eat
Hello, guys. You're doing a wonderful job. Keep spreading the love the song. You really want to check out that describes? America is called pink houses. You will enjoy it. Have a good day.God bless you.And may the lord always be with you
This song was profound then and even more so today. Farms and ranches going under and suburban encroachment taking over. Ugly neighborhoods, more traffic gridlock, and big box stores running the local business owners out. Progress is just another way of saying higher taxes and massive strain on natural resources, along with an uptick in crime. I want to buy my food from the U.S. farms and ranches then from a foreign farmer! God Bless the small family farmers and ranchers and a big stinker look to the corporate growers and raisers who are helping, along with our government, destroying a great way to live and raise families. Just my take on this! Put OUR PEOPLE back to work and stop this global bullshit for cheaper labor and high corporate profits that only the CEO's are enjoying!
![[LIVE] : ONE ลุมพินี 83 วันนี้!! คู่เอก "พันฤทธิ์ vs ซุปเปอร์บอล วันของโอม MBK"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1b4pkKHa_Fk/mqdefault.jpg)
One of my favorite Mellencamp songs, he plays it most every concert... The annual Farm Aid benefit is next month, John, Neil, Willie and Dave..
I'm in Louisville KY, 50 miles or so from johns hometown in Seymour Indiana,he always came to Louisville in his days starting out, and he never forgot his early fans, or where he's from, he still lives there
Hi Paul another Louisvillian here and you are 100% right.
No matter how far the farming technologies have come including tractors that can be programmed to do the job without manpower, so much depends on the weather to be successful. Thank God for farmers for we all need them to survive! Love this song, this artist, and this reaction!❤😊
The farm crisis of the mid-80s was brutal.
The best thing about John is, he is exactly who you think he is, nothing fake about him!
BS! Maybe back in the 80’s, he changed and became a celebrity and turncoat to his mid west values. He gave concerts supporting Obama and Hillary Clinton who mocked and screwed over middle America! Doesn’t he know they considered him a deplorable and red neck clutching his bible and gun? He’s a total fraud and sell out to the US!!
My grandfather's 1200 acre farm now has a huge Wal-Mart on it, along with a paved road and a couple fast food shops. It was heartbreaking to see this strong, life-long farmer with a 6th grade education break down. Farming was all he knew! That land had been in my family going back to the late 1700's. Unfortunately, the Farm Aid movement came too late for him, but it has helped many keep their land and continues to do so. Support your local farmers!
Much love to you 💚
Little Pink Houses.... another social commentary by Melancamp and I don't think you would be disappointed
Thanks for a great review guys! Growing up on a corn farm in Iowa, this song has always struck hard. Every line could be from my biography. My parents held onto the farm until I graduated in 86, then had to sell out (just like most of our neighbors). Farming is a business where you have no control over your cost of production or your sale price. You just have to do the best you can and pray you make it through one season to start the next. Farming is also a lifestyle that gets in your blood and is hard to turn from. 40 years later, I'm not growing corn but raising cows instead.
john grew up in Indiana and still lives there. He has a love for the land. Great reaction.
This song had a HUGE impact back in the day, not only is it a brilliant composition but its message still rings ugly and true today, decades later. Greed: the killer of civilizations.
The issue is huge corporations driving family farms out of business and then gobbling them up.
By happenstance I'm wearing my Red "Stop Factory Farms" Tee Shirt I bought at the '01 Farm Aid Concert. Neil noticed it at '07 Chrome Dreams II show...
And then big Ag gets billions in subsidies. Makes me ill. And the food they produce is filled with chemicals.
Look deeper, its China and Bill Gates who is buying it all. Careful going down that rabbit hole though it will blow your mind.
Actually, it's about banks loaning money too expensive to pay back. It's the banks and the government, they ruin everything they touch.
@@farmerbill6855 chiiiiina is buying up all the farmland. They keep deleting this when i say it. So, what's that tell you.
The political sense of it is " He who controls the food supply controls the people ' and governments want TOTAL POWER . Another political reason is that farmers are the last bastion of family owned small businesses and they oppose excessive government power .
John Mellencamp along with Neil Young and Willie Nelson organized Farm Aid. A huge benefit concert to raise money for the farmers.❤
I was born and raised in Indiana. This video shows my youth ❤
This is one of my favorite albums. It brings back so many memories. I saw John twice on the “scarecrow” tour. Once at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis and once at Indiana University Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana for little 500 weekend 1986. (John lives right outside of Bloomington)
“The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans
Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the farmers bank foreclosed
They called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land
He said ‘John its just my job and I hope you understand’
Hey calling it your job ol hoss sure dont make it right
But if you want me to I’ll say a prayer for your soul tonight…”
The government screwed him over, now he’s bankrupt. THEN they called his friend (Schepman) to auction the land for pennies on the dollar. What great line.
Here in the states the large family farm is almost a thing of the past. Corporations have consolidated their control over agribusiness. They are now moving on to housing. One economist calls it technofeudalism. We're going backwards not forward.
I have family from Indiana who are 100% these farmers, and it’s a real issue for all farming families. I love you both so much for how fully you feel this song. And I appreciate that this struggle also resonates with you in Europe-Romania and Poland in particular-because those are both places with beautiful land and wonderful crops.
Love! ❤
Love love love this!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
You are correct about your assessment of John and his songs. Back in the 80’s John along with Willie Nelson and Neil Young started “Farm Aid” concerts. They were annual concerts with proceeds benefiting the American Farmer. For another really good song from John Mellencamp please react to “Jackie Brown” simple, beautiful, but deep! 😉
I saw John Mellencamp on this tour and this was the song he opened the show with. Amazing show.
LOVE ME SOME JMC!!! He's just AWESOME!! Great tune to make people STOP & THINK and BRINGING REALITY to LIGHT!!!! ENJOY!!!
Great song. The year I graduated high school. 1985. Im getting old! 😁😎🇺🇸
Remember when music actually said something?
You have touched a lot of hearts with this reaction
Love you too so much
One of my favorites. Listen to this one quite often. And I’ll be seeing him at FarmAid towards the end of this summer!❤
Kenneth Aronoff is an amazing drummer...
Probably my favorite song from him. Havent heard any Chris Cornell in a while, he is my favorite of all time. R.I.P.
Glad to see John getting some reactions. He is the voice of flyover country. The mergers of corporations is a problem in every step of food oroductiin from farm to table. Farmers were hit hardest and first. He grew up in Seymour Indiana , the heart of Americas breadbasket. This album came straight from the heart.
I have lived my entire 55 years in one spot. As a kid I was country. We were surrounded by 2 lane country black tops and dirt roads. Nothing but forest and farm land. But now.... the land is covered with housing complex's and large neighborhoods. My own Grandfathers farm is now a neighborhood. There isn't anything left of my childhood growing up on that farm. They even cut down the 3 HUGE oak tree's I once played under. Every day it seems another section of land is cleared for construction and it tears my heart out to watch it happen. They call it progress.And depending upon your goal I guess it is for some people. Particularly the politicians and developers. But for those of us who have worked this land for generations it's like a part of you has died. I use to enjoy summer evening rides after dinner on the backroads. Windows down as I hear the cicadas and see the sun setting through the tree's and over the fields of corn. I no longer take those rides because it's too upsetting to see what's become of the area.
Love how you two tell it like it is, whether it's the US, or Europe, or wherever. John is passionate about what's happening to the country.
one of his best! ♥
Thank you for playing this . I requested it when I saw you review the first John Mellencamp song .So much REALITY in this
God bless you both for understanding. Sadly, big corporations have taken over much of the farming in the US. Please shop locally. Please support family farms. Thank you for reacting to this important music video. Farm Aid is a great organization in the USA.
My favorite John song. An ugly truth, and Johns take on it with an Americana view and song style is immaculate. A rebel song for farms ALL OVER the world.
one of his best songs! another big hit from him is "Pink Houses".
My mother was a farmer’s daughter in southern Indiana. The family land is now interstate highway and residential. Corporations run the world.
John still has a home in Indiana.Hes a down to earth guy!
Scarecrow is a great album. I love it.
Great song and reaction, good luck with your channel! 😂🤟
This is one of John's most serious songs. John's music is definitely about life in small towns for everyday people. But, most ppl who listened to his music didn't pay attention to the lyrics/message.
Again, I think you'll really like "Pink Houses"
I've seen a lot of artists in concert going back to the late 70's. Every now in then, I'd see someone that surprised me. John Mellencamp was one of those. I wasn't expecting it, but he and his band were fantastic live!
I love you guys!
His 'image' is a man from a small town origin and he actually is. I know him distantly and he's unsurprisingly very down-to-earth...at least with me.
Yes, this is an issue very close to John's heart. He organized Farm Aid which has gone on for years to help farmers in these situations.
I live in a small town in Missouri and we try to buy directly from our local farmers, I would rather pay a little more for our local farmers!🇺🇸✌🏻❤️
The agenda is to force private farms out of business and to transfer the farmland to giant agriculture corporations. Control the land, control the food, control the people. John Mellencamp is among my favorite artists, so talented, and so many of his songs have real substance to them. He has a fun side, also, and I urge you to explore that side of him. When you feel like dancing barefoot in each other's arms, check out "KEY WEST INTERMEZZO (I SAW YOU FIRST)" th-cam.com/video/RlMPYwGWLcI/w-d-xo.html , and if you're just in the mood for a nice, upbeat groove, listen to his cover of "WILD NIGHT" th-cam.com/video/1nPPRQeTxTY/w-d-xo.html . Both are fabulous, just like this channel. ;)
this song this album was all that!
This song and Paper and Fire will kick you in the junk unlike anything else he has ever done!
My grandpa cleared this land 🤘🤘
1. BETWEEN A LAUGH AND A TEAR 2. R.O.C.K. IN THE USA 3. JUSTICE AND INDEPENDANCE 4. STAND FOR SOMETHING, all on that album.
You'll notice in his music that it's just a raw barebones sound. Not a lot of studio "magic " . He said something like he wanted kids practicing in the garage to be able to reproduce the sound they hear on the radio. Always thought that was very cool.❤
I'm Runnin' On Empty.... 😉
Farm Aid is an annual fundraising concert that has been held every year since 1985 to support family and independent farmers. It was started by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young.
Many musical artists have participated in these concerts over the past 39 years.
From a 1995 Farm Aid concert, here is John with Me'Shell Ndegeocello singing Van Morrison's "Wild Night":
th-cam.com/video/p3hryCMN8rw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dUeb5ojfXQYOTICH
Sept 21, 2024 Upstate New York this year, I saw the '01 Farm Aid days after 9/11 The Doobie Bros showed up unannounced...It's on TH-cam
@@marke8323 Lucky you! Cheers from the west coast of Canada...
It's all about where hes from.. the midwest...some musicians are defined products of the area they are from.....
Not sure if you've heard of it, but in 1985, John and country legend Willie Nelson organized an annual benefit concert, that still happens today, called Farm-aid, to help wherever they can in the USA. Here, the government & corporations are edging the farmer out of business on a major scale. Generations of farming families have lost their livelihood AND LOST THEIR LAND, that had been in their family for generations.
In order to have a fresh tomato year round we must buy from other countries because the tomato grows at certain times of the year, so we must buy from other countries. Other fruits as well, many foods are like that.
John's later works are brilliant. Tunes like Key West Intermezzo, Dance Naked, Jacki Brown,....and on and on. For a great tune about personal relationships check out his tune "Check it Out." .
Brilliant song brilliant songwriting
I heard this song the other day, probably about when you released this vid, and I was thinking that I had never seen any one react to it.
Here we are 😁💚
Andre, I kew you would be a Mellencamp guy, I'll keep sending more. Walt
Great song and reaction
This song from John cougar rain on the scarecrow to this day chokes me up, because I to had a good friend like family that lost his land upstate NY in the Adirondack mountains USA. Now he's forced to live in the city and separated from loved ones. What gives bro?
John definitely spoke for the people. ❤
Yeah if he isn’t such a leftist moron! Good song, but when it comes to politics, he has his head up his back side! 🙏✝️❤️🇺🇸
@@williamcabell142 Your view is obscured by your ass.
Really do need to listen to Paper and Fire and you will see he truly is about others
Mellencamp was huge and used his platform responsibly
Great song!🙏✝️❤️🇺🇸
John grew up in a rural Indiana town south of Indianapolis where I grew up. He’s very involved in farmers rights. ❤
I went to a 2 year agricultural technical college, there were farm kids there, I think many have switched to other careers now
One of the goals of capitalism (perhaps unintended), is to put the means of production into fewer; and larger farms. Fewer and larger corporations. "Get big, or get out"
I think John is from Indiana. Jack and Diane is my favorite of his.
John Mellencamp's music has made him a very wealthy man. Still, he seems to have never lost touch with the common man.
His best song.
I told you a while ago...full version.....song...I Need a Lover
Please do "Holding On To Yesterday" By Ambrosia. You well love it.
Young person trying to start out as a farmer today. $2,000 - 4000 and acre. You need 1,000 acres to keep up, so $4,000,000 input just to own land. Another $4 million in equipment. And ever 5-10 years have to buy equipment to replace what you had. Farmers are still working from start to the end of their lives to pay it off in the hopes MAYBE they can pass it on to a child that wants to farm. Which, oh right their kid will have to pay a huge tax on when they inherit it. They never get any of that back. It is all sunk cost. Why you see so many farmers working til they are 70-80 years old.
The only way my father's farm was paid off was him dying and my mom collecting life insurance to pay off the debt.
Do Jackie Brown from JM next. You’ll love it.
This song seems more relevant now than ever, sadly.
The U.S. government involved in farming is very complicated. As many genuine problems as there are the crop insurance and disaster aid is always accepted
All of those free trade agreement is also part of the problem as well. Always said I believe in fair trade not free trade.
In 2022, the median wealth of a US farm household was $1,376,404, while households that operated commercial farms had a median wealth of $3.5 million. This is significantly more than non-farming families, with commercial farmers having a median net worth that is 23x the median American family net worth.
Obviously this video is 38 years old but farmers take off of hard working Americans, they are given billions in subsidies they don't even need. At least 10,000 farmers took over $11B in farm subsidies over 39 consecutive years.
Under Trump, Farm Subsidies Soared and the Rich Got Richer. Subsidy payments to farmers ballooned from just over $4 billion in 2017 to more than $20 billion in 2020 - driven largely by ad hoc programs meant to offset the effects of President Trump’s failed trade war with China.
have you done PINK HOUSES?
🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽Hi👋 I hope one of this day you can react to CAIFANES I really sure you're going a sorpraising🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽💯💯💯💯
It has been happening all across North America Andrei and Domenika for decades now. Politicians just want cheaper food so they can gain votes from city dwellers. Politicians who have likely never worked hard 14 or 16 hour days for many years on end just to try to make ends meet like farmers and ranchers do. It is little wonder we have such leaders who are completely divorced from reality. In Canada we have a prime minister who was born a multi-multi millionaire who knows nothing even of a working life, having only ever been a replacement drama teacher. And now we are relying on a man and his colleagues who have never had any connection with real working people, and this country has never been in worse shape because of them. They are simply indifferent to the destruction they are creating all around them because of their corruption. They have their own fat salaries and millions stashed away. Yes, it makes thinking people angry! 🤨🤷😡
Please check Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road 🤝🏻👍🏻
Unfortunately the times of being a little farmer are far over…many farms now becoming solar farms…not sure how those are going to feed us
They... don't think about the people who work ,sweat and toil to put food on peoples tables.....
John is a Democrat in deep red Indiana. I think we know why. He has always stood up for what is right. He has to be horrified at what America has devolved into since Trump came on the scene.
Please do "Aubrey" by Bread. You're not finished with them yet - you'll love it.
"Club Cherry Bomb" next Mellencamp is the bomb.
My family's farm was given as a land grant for his service in the Revolutionary War by Continental Congress in 1780 to my grandfather 8 generations back . For 8 generations we owned and farmed that land until the TVA built a dam on the river and put our entire farm at the bottom of a lake . .They government used their " eminent domain " law to FORCE us to sell them our land AT THEIR PRICE . That land had been in the family for EIGHT generations . We were the only ones to EVER own that land .That is PART of why I trust the government in everything they do and want to give them even more power ( yeah right ) Incidentally , I have been growing an all organic vegetable garden on MY land for more than 50 years , no chemical fertilizer,no pesticides , no herbicides , no hybrids or GMO plants . I compost lawn clippings, leaves , and al bio-degradable kitchen waste by feeding it to my worms and when they are done , I spread the compost with the worm castings on the garden for fertilizer . I am currently growing tomatoes, snow peas, green beans , yellow beans ,3 varieties of peppers , Swiss chard, cucumbers , garlic , beets , and carrots . All of them taste MUCH better than the vegetables one buys at the store and they are much healthier to eat
Hello, guys. You're doing a wonderful job. Keep spreading the love the song. You really want to check out that describes? America is called pink houses. You will enjoy it. Have a good day.God bless you.And may the lord always be with you
John was a normal guy at one time.
This song was profound then and even more so today. Farms and ranches going under and suburban encroachment taking over. Ugly neighborhoods, more traffic gridlock, and big box stores running the local business owners out. Progress is just another way of saying higher taxes and massive strain on natural resources, along with an uptick in crime. I want to buy my food from the U.S. farms and ranches then from a foreign farmer! God Bless the small family farmers and ranchers and a big stinker look to the corporate growers and raisers who are helping, along with our government, destroying a great way to live and raise families. Just my take on this! Put OUR PEOPLE back to work and stop this global bullshit for cheaper labor and high corporate profits that only the CEO's are enjoying!
John cougar turned into a woke dbg