Who Can Beat Trump?

[David Horn]

(09-23-2018, 06:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-23-2018, 09:37 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-22-2018, 10:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Show me a welfare recipient who isn't dependent on the welfare system. If you find one then explain to me why they're still on it.

Show me a grain farmer or military contractor who isn't dependent on government largess.  They are a lot bigger money drains than a few welfare recipients, almost all of whom have health issues of some kind.

Well, the farm subsidy bills were passed when the Democrats were more associated with small farm owners and labor. On the other hand, the military contractor provides a service that our government pays them to do for them. Now, I don't how many small farm owners who still vote Democratic are left these days who still need the subsidy's to remain competitive and remain in business or how many third world people there are aboard who need subsidized/free wheat to live on or how many poor people there are within the country who need cheap food to eat these days but I'm sure there's quite a few. I don't know, I don't live in farm country, I don't eat cheap bread and I'm not an extremely poor person living in a third country abroad that has little to nothing as far as infrastructure.

Primarily, farm subsidies go to wealthy farmers with huge farms.  They come in the form of subsidized crop insurance (its handy to never lose on a bad crop) and land set-asides that are money paid to do nothing -- like welfare but without the work requirement.  There are very few crops that get subsidies: corn, wheat and soybeans are the main ones, and those farmers are almost 100% Republican.  

And military contractors are the scourge Dwight Eisenhower warned us about.  If you have a job with a larger contractor, you are well paid.  Why?  Because contractors typically charge Uncle Sam based on Cost-Plus pricing.  In a Cost-Plus contract, the contractor receives a fixed percentage of costs as profit, making excessive cost a prime money maker.   Firm Fixed price contracts exist, but they are restricted to low risk contracts, like providing meals to the troops, but not in war zones.  And building anything is cost-overrun heaven.