Rush Limbaugh recently introduced this government
program to most Americans during one of his radio programs, and below are some
observations on the government summit that Rush may not have mentioned, based
on an article found in the “Morning Beacon Daily Newsletter” on August 16, 2016:
At a time when our liberal government is doing
everything in its power to destroy suburban life and corral everyone in big
cities where the population can be better controlled, who would expect to learn
that big government has for 15 years been encouraging lesbians and LGBT
individuals to become farmers?
My question is: what business does government have to
spend tax-payer money to push any type of business or way of living? And with a
supposed ten-percent of LGBT couples living in rural areas, how does this invisibly
small number of individuals rate having tax money spent for their welfare? And where
is the proof that they are being disadvantaged in the first place? The program
is designed to teach lesbians and transgenders how to get subsidies from the
government, kind of like the Obama administration publishing articles in
Mexican and Central American newspapers telling these people how to illegally
enter the United States and get welfare once they cross our open border. Who
are these idiots in government to waste tax money on these things?
Far be it from me to discourage any person from
seeking the life they want to live and residing in any part of the country they
want to live in, city or rural, but when the government spends my tax money to
foster their favorite, privileged groups, I resent it. In fact Ashlee Davis,
the head of the United States Department of Agriculture’s rural pride summit,
said that the agency is “working very hard to change how people think about
rural America…”. What she didn’t say is that our government is working very
hard to force our thinking to the things and in the ways government wants us to
think.
Maybe clothing companies are backing this agenda in an
attempt to sell more mucking boots and flannel shirts to lesbians. I’m just
saying. But whatever the motive, the larger population suffers as the
privileged, government-favored groups prosper.
And possibly the most maddening aspect of this whole
thing is that this advocacy is coming from the USDA’s “Civil Rights” department.
Really? Rural farming is involved with civil rights now? What exactly is the
relation of farming and civil rights? And are the civil rights of non-lesbians
being trod on by their not being able to get such advice and assistance from
the government?
One wonders how many lesbians and transgenders would attend
these summits, decide to take up the romantic notion of farming, go into debt
to buy land and equipment, and then experience financial difficulties because
the government was so anxious to push the fabled idea of working the land that
they forgot to mention the realities of making a living from farming. There is
probably no vocation in which newcomers will work harder and experience more financial
and personal hardships than farming. And farming, like any other business,
requires that you make an annual profit in order to succeed, and I’ll bet the
government decided not to mention the nasty word “profit”. It sounds so
capitalistic.
Is encouraging women to move to farms and raise crops
and livestock really serving the welfare of these women? Farming 300 acres is
not the same as gardening in your back yard raising tomatoes, basil and lettuce,
and I wonder how fully informed the attendees of this summit are.
Has the United States passed the point in time when
the government will leave us the hell alone to run our lives peacefully as we
see fit?
