re: Louisiana requests federal assistance to help struggling crawfish farmers

Can't make this up. Landry wants federal aid for crawfish farmers but declined federal aid for poor children. Unreal.

Crawfish farmer should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They must be lazy or on drugs. This state doesn’t not need ebt assistance to feed kids either.

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The older farmers are getting out the business there’s just not enough young farmers anymore. No young person wants the headache of farming. You can’t just wake up one day and decide to farm. Yeah some farmers might absorb neighboring farms that go idle but there will still be a void.

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Damn baw you are quite the victim. You poor bastard forced to farm for a living. Grow some fricking balls.

Not playing the victim, just having an informative discussion explaining the crawfish industry. I never once said we deserve the subsidies that are being talked about.

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How many people turned away stimulus checks? Didn’t hear of the govt getting too many sent back

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The government created the economic catastrophe that was the justification for the stimulus checks. That’s not a typical handout.

Can you tell me again where you farm and how much?

We’re in Vermilion with 2400 acres, plant right at half each year. Very small bit is family land with the rest being rented.

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Declines the federal EBT money but wants assistance for crawfish farmers. Wild

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Good on declining the EBT. Maybe he won't get the federal assistance.

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Free markets are the gold standard of economies.

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Show me a guy who has no comprehension of history....

Free markets are great when they're running well. Free markets also have the ability to crash the entire global economy for a decade if not properly regulated, resulting in world hunger, work shortages, currency destabilization, homelessness, etc. Imagine what would've happened in '08 if we just had to let giant banks fail with all depositor money lost...you think that's a good thing?

This is the problem with some of y'all....it's all platitudes and tough talk without any regard for nuance or historical context. Pull out the thesaurus, talk tough, and wait for the upvotes to come rolling in. Get curious! Read!

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I posted a pic of one of them’s cold storage facility. It’s in Eunice off 190.

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Riceland Crawfish - Dexter Guillory. Dexter passed away in Dec 2020 (Covid) and I assume his 2 children & wife run the operation. It’s large - I asked him at one time a decade or so ago if he thought he was the largest volume crawfish wholesaler in the state - he didn’t know if he was the largest but he felt he was in the top 3.

Dexter was one that started as small crawfish farmer as a side-line business/income, his full time job was a produce manager at a grocery store (as I recall), and over several decades built one hell of a crawfish business.