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Jimmy Hightower – Trump Wants Small Farmers to Clear Out for the Big Guys

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This article shows how politics isn't working, because these politicians know they will get voted in anyway, one way or another, or get good jobs working for the corporations, so they don't care about the average voter. Meanwhile, monopoly power is crushing prices. An billion behemoth named Dean Foods now controls 90 percent of Wisconsin’s milk market, empowering it to commit daylight robbery, essentially stealing farmers’ product — and their farms. Yet Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue — the one national official who’s supposed to stand up for farmers — nonchalantly kissed them off, smugly declaring it natural for the big to devour the small. There’s nothing he can do for family operators, he says, except tell them to “go out” of agriculture. TruthDig Jimmy Hightower - Trump

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Jimmy Hightower - Trump Wants Small Farmers to Clear Out for the Big Guys

This article shows how politics isn't working, because these politicians know they will get voted in anyway, one way or another, or get good jobs working for the corporations, so they don't care about the average voter.

Meanwhile, monopoly power is crushing prices. An $8 billion behemoth named Dean Foods now controls 90 percent of Wisconsin’s milk market, empowering it to commit daylight robbery, essentially stealing farmers’ product — and their farms.
Yet Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue — the one national official who’s supposed to stand up for farmers — nonchalantly kissed them off, smugly declaring it natural for the big to devour the small.
There’s nothing he can do for family operators, he says, except tell them to “go out” of agriculture.
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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