Two Days to the Deadline

This email arrived today from the central planning committee.  Click on it for a closer look.

It requires translation as follows:  

Time to sign-up for inadequate Republican welfare payments made to assuage the economic damage inflicted upon farmers and ranchers in retaliation for the Republican tax increases on imported steel, aluminum and other goods. 

This is all so self-inflicted. 

It sure ain’t the quaint old free-trade, Chamber of Commerce GOP from the days of yore.  This is the new and improved contemporary Republican party of protectionism, tariffs and the picking of winners and losers.   Who knew?


Here's to hope that America's farming community survives this economic perversity....