You know what makes me crazy? When people call preferential tax treatment on things like the fuel and the equipment that farmers buy a "subsidy". Sorry, but stealing a little less money from farmers than from everyone else should not be called a "subsidy".
There's so much bad coverage of this issue--no-one says the name-that-must-not-be-mentioned: the EU. EU agricultural subsidies are what's behind all of this mess, and they were the 30 silver coins the (old West) German gov't paid to France (essentially subsidising French farmers through a 'common' subsidy racket) to create the EU in the first place.
Few people know about this, but it's quite a trick played by Bonn and later Berlin: pay out pennies on the dollar in farm subsidies (with the same bait and switch as in the US: it's good for politicians to go out and do photo ops when they are 'helping farmers' when, in fact, most--some 70-80% of said subsidies--are going to Big Ag), for in exchange, German manufacturers and financiers profit handsomely from the EU and its continued enlargement. In fact, the EU is a massive redistribution racket that ties all EU/EEC countries to the German economy--which now, courtesy of the current gov't--will stall and soon be in free-fall, which will drag all other EU/EEC countries down with them.
Long before truckers in Canada we had Occupy Wall Street. Coercive elements of the state plus the propaganda can readily deal with such events. What is needed for change is a critical mass which is extremely difficult to gather under current conditions. I believe it would take both a much broader and deeper degradation of people’s lives, but with greater desperation you increase the chances of the least desirable outcome.
We ought not lose the sight of the fact that all of this is happening across the West. The destruction itself must be the aim of the ruling oligarchy. Their demented dystopian goals demand utter destruction of everything, culture, religions, economies, families, things and lives. This is the reality we’d rather sweep under the carpet. We’d rather think in terms of agricultural subsidies and such.
😔 I hear you, I think I’m not quite ready to loose the last of my rose-tinted hope (for sure the last years have stripped most of it) that we can make a difference - somehow - and before despair forces ‘change’... 🤞
You know what makes me crazy? When people call preferential tax treatment on things like the fuel and the equipment that farmers buy a "subsidy". Sorry, but stealing a little less money from farmers than from everyone else should not be called a "subsidy".
Exactly.
There's so much bad coverage of this issue--no-one says the name-that-must-not-be-mentioned: the EU. EU agricultural subsidies are what's behind all of this mess, and they were the 30 silver coins the (old West) German gov't paid to France (essentially subsidising French farmers through a 'common' subsidy racket) to create the EU in the first place.
Few people know about this, but it's quite a trick played by Bonn and later Berlin: pay out pennies on the dollar in farm subsidies (with the same bait and switch as in the US: it's good for politicians to go out and do photo ops when they are 'helping farmers' when, in fact, most--some 70-80% of said subsidies--are going to Big Ag), for in exchange, German manufacturers and financiers profit handsomely from the EU and its continued enlargement. In fact, the EU is a massive redistribution racket that ties all EU/EEC countries to the German economy--which now, courtesy of the current gov't--will stall and soon be in free-fall, which will drag all other EU/EEC countries down with them.
Long before truckers in Canada we had Occupy Wall Street. Coercive elements of the state plus the propaganda can readily deal with such events. What is needed for change is a critical mass which is extremely difficult to gather under current conditions. I believe it would take both a much broader and deeper degradation of people’s lives, but with greater desperation you increase the chances of the least desirable outcome.
We ought not lose the sight of the fact that all of this is happening across the West. The destruction itself must be the aim of the ruling oligarchy. Their demented dystopian goals demand utter destruction of everything, culture, religions, economies, families, things and lives. This is the reality we’d rather sweep under the carpet. We’d rather think in terms of agricultural subsidies and such.
Exactly, that's why I wrote that we're not 'there' (yet), and this will take some more time.
😔 I hear you, I think I’m not quite ready to loose the last of my rose-tinted hope (for sure the last years have stripped most of it) that we can make a difference - somehow - and before despair forces ‘change’... 🤞
Thank you.
I won't loose hope, but I think I'm not naive enough in my assessment.
It is good to know these sentiments aren't 'unique' to me (or you).
This guy is a children's author? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/flagship-event/dr-robert-habeck/
WTF German police check his hard drive