'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

[Disir]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Then people wonder why the small farmer is becoming a dying breed.

*****SMILE*****

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

 

[asaratis]

President Trump has reversed some of Obama's illegal land grab. I hope he included the entire Sweeney farmland. Obama and his liberal minions simply do not grasp the bumper sticker "No Farms No Food".

Obama should do us all a favor...disappear into the sunset!

 

[9thIDdoc]

Urban folks need to remember that they would starve were it not for rural areas and the people that live there.

 

[asaratis]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

 

[Disir]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

 

[Disir]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

What the article doesn't mention is that people have been leaving the cities. FWIW, they are running out of people that will vote for them.

 

[asaratis]

Urban folks need to remember that they would starve were it not for rural areas and the people that live there.

Even the vegetarians among them should be thankful for rural farmers. Sometimes I think the brain dead idiots believe that vegetables magically appear on grocery shelves without having been planted, nurtured, harvested, stored, loaded and shipped by people who live and work in rural areas.

 

[asaratis]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

The problem liberals have with it today is that more often than not, it saves us from being ruled over by a liberal. The EC generally goes against the liberal infested shitholes we call big cities.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

What the article doesn't mention is that people have been leaving the cities. FWIW, they are running out of people that will vote for them.

Unfortunately those same people leaving the big city come to the small cities and towns and think they can vote in all those amenities that they expect in the big city thereby driving up the taxes on existing property beyond what the original residents are willing to pay. Doesn't work because a lot the original residents will move out to the smaller outlaying towns and countryside to avoid paying the higher tax. This can spell the doom of those cities that accept this flagrant behavior of expecting 'bread and circuses' when the cash flow isn't there to support the new residents demands.

*****SMILE*****

 

[Disir]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

The problem liberals have with it today is that more often than not, it saves us from being ruled over by a liberal. The EC generally goes against the liberal infested shitholes we call big cities.

I'm a liberal. The problem for the younger generation is that they didn't know what an electoral college was.

 

[Disir]

Unfortunately those same people leaving the big city come to the small cities and towns and think they can vote in all those amenities that they expect in the big city thereby driving up the taxes on existing property beyond what the original residents are willing to pay. Doesn't work because a lot the original residents will move out to the smaller outlaying towns and countryside to avoid paying the higher tax. This can spell the doom of those cities that accept this flagrant behavior of expecting 'bread and circuses' when the cash flow isn't there to support the new residents demands.

There is that. Move to place you adore and then change everything.

 

[asaratis]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

The problem liberals have with it today is that more often than not, it saves us from being ruled over by a liberal. The EC generally goes against the liberal infested shitholes we call big cities.

I'm a liberal. The problem for the younger generation is that they didn't know what an electoral college was.

An equally ever present problem is that many think we should live in a true democracy. The United States is a democratic republic, not a democracy.

I am a conservative hawk with complete understanding that some things must be controlled by socialist principles. However, to parrot every liberal talking point generated by today's liberal 'leaders' is pure, unadulterated LUNACY! To blindly follow the principles of Marxism/Socialism/Communism is LUNACY! None of the three have ever in the history of mankind exhibited individual liberty and freedom from oppression as is available today in the Democratic Republic of the United States.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

I forget who the quote is attributed to, but there is a saying that a young emotional person can't help but be a liberal but will eventually become educated and become a conservative.

What is your age?

 

[asaratis]

BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.



Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa. Just 1 in 7 Americans live in places like this: Rural counties have 72 percent of the nation's land but a shrinking population as urban areas have ballooned in size and wealth.

In recent years, Sweeney has felt a growing "disconnect" between how people think in cities and in places like Buckeye, a town of 108. In her view, farmers were too often "shoved aside" during the presidency of Barack Obama, while environmentalists and conservationists, many of whom live nowhere near a farm, took over the national conversation.

Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments - more than any other president - preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs.

Incredibly, Sweeney said, Obama's Agriculture Department even started pushing "Meatless Mondays," an insult to Iowa's pork, beef and chicken producers. "I will eat more meat on Monday to compensate for stupid USDA recommendation abt a meatless Monday," Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R, tweeted in response. Meatless Mondays felt like a "slap in the face" to Sweeney, who has this bumper sticker on her Buick: "EAT BEEF: The West Wasn't Won on Salad."

But nothing galled Sweeney more than a regulation Obama issued in 2015 called "Waters of the United States" or WOTUS. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was aimed at keeping pollutants - including fertilizer, manure and other farm runoff - out of streams and creeks that feed the nation's waterways. Farm runoff is a leading cause of water pollution, contaminating drinking water, spawning toxic algal blooms and killing fish.

To Sweeney, WOTUS felt like the government's hands on her throat.

Was some bureaucrat now going to show up and police her puddles and tiniest ditches of water? She said that is what happened several years ago: A federal conservation official told Sweeney she had a half-acre of wetland in the middle of a 160-acre field. Wetlands are protected habitats for migrating birds and other wildlife and are important for healthy soil and water.

"Suddenly, this piece of land that we had been farming for 70 years was federally protected, and we had to stop everything," said Sweeney, who was born on the farm and raised two boys there.

In the end, Sweeney had to pay $5,000 to preserve a small parcel of wetland elsewhere so she could continue farming her own property. The experience contributed to a feeling that "we were smothered" by the federal government, Sweeney said.

'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America

This is a lengthy article and there is a Democrat farmer's views in there as well.

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

...as when Slick Willy won.

 

[deanrd]

Republicans helping farmers?

Really?

Helping them lost their land?

Helping them lose their healthcare?

Republicans love to help.

 

[asaratis]

Republicans helping farmers?

Really?

Helping them lost their land?

Helping them lose their healthcare?

Republicans love to help.

Nobody has "lost" their healthcare. They have lost the mandate to buy it whether they want it or not. They are now able to buy it if they choose to do so, without being fined by mother government.

 

[busybee01]

Republicans helping farmers?

Really?

Helping them lost their land?

Helping them lose their healthcare?

Republicans love to help.

Nobody has "lost" their healthcare. They have lost the mandate to buy it whether they want it or not. They are now able to buy it if they choose to do so, without being fined by mother government.

Yes they will. The mandate was created by a CONSERVATIVE Heritage Foundation. The reason was to prevent freeloaders. People who do not buy insurance until they get sick. It drives up costs for everybody. There will be fewer healthy people in the system so that will drive up rates next year. If you do not get health care insurance through a employer or get a subsidy, your rates are going up next year. Guess when those rate increases will come. A few weeks before the midterms. Republicans will get screwed.

 

[strollingbones]

small farmers are under attack from many foes....mostly large corp farms ....they are trying to make heirloom veggies illegal....heirlooms are ones you can grow from seed...your own seed

 

[Disir]

Obama even said in his last interview as president that the Democratic Party doesn't want "rural" voters

If the Marxist/Socialist/Communist LEFT is successful in dismantling the Electoral College, they will not need the "rural" voters. The very backbone of the nation will have been disenfranchised.

Many of Obama's actions, as are those of many of the liberals today, were treasonous. He should have been impeached, tried, convicted, and executed.

It won't be dismantled. Every time there is an election people have a knipshit about the electoral college. The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is that this generation doesn't know how the electoral college works. They were unhappy but had it gone their way they wouldn't have said jack.

The problem liberals have with it today is that more often than not, it saves us from being ruled over by a liberal. The EC generally goes against the liberal infested shitholes we call big cities.

I'm a liberal. The problem for the younger generation is that they didn't know what an electoral college was.

An equally ever present problem is that many think we should live in a true democracy. The United States is a democratic republic, not a democracy.

I am a conservative hawk with complete understanding that some things must be controlled by socialist principles. However, to parrot every liberal talking point generated by today's liberal 'leaders' is pure, unadulterated LUNACY! To blindly follow the principles of Marxism/Socialism/Communism is LUNACY! None of the three have ever in the history of mankind exhibited individual liberty and freedom from oppression as is available today in the Democratic Republic of the United States.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

I forget who the quote is attributed to, but there is a saying that a young emotional person can't help but be a liberal but will eventually become educated and become a conservative.

What is your age?

Democracy=mob rule. Nobody wants that. Rephrase----Nobody sane wants that. Too, that not knowing how the government functions, or more importantly, why it has to work that way is part of the problem.

Parroting anyone's talking points is lunacy. It demonstrates an inability to critically think. Liberals are supposed to be open minded but not so opened minded the brain falls out. I do hear what you are saying because I have run into that problem before. We can find conservatives doing the same thing here.

I think idealism is the culprit rather than liberalism. The part of the brain that deals with time and consequences doesn't fully grow in until much later.

I'm 47.