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In a statement, the German Farmer’s Association President Joachim Rukwied said that the government was “depriving agriculture of its future viability.”

Rukwied said that the combination of rising energy costs — a result of years of green agenda policies combined with the war in Ukraine — and the proposed subsidy cuts and tax hikes would see the average farmer in Germany lose at least a third of their income.

The Farmer’s Association chief went on to dispute the government’s claims that it was short of money.

Rukwied argues that the bloated government in Berlin has a spending problem rather than an income problem and urges that the government should seek to make cuts in other areas.

He went on to say that the “planned tax increases were the last straw” for the farmers, whose businesses are “dying in installments.”

Meanwhile, the Green Party Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck — who was personally protested against by hundreds of farmers last week — has criticized the farmer protest.

On Friday, a government spokesman warned that supposed “far-right” elements would seek to use the demonstrations for their own benefit.

Alexander Dobrindt, the chairman of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) in the Bundestag parliament, said that the protests were both legitimate and justified, arguing that they were the inevitable result of the failures of the left-wing government of Olaf Scholz.

Dobrindt continued by declaring: “The farmers have our support for this protest.”

The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has also backed the protest movement.

The farmer protests in Germany follow the example set by their counterparts in the Netherlands.

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More world-wide conservative movements! Love to see it!

Excellent.

Need to start following Eva Vlaardingerbroek <3

They want to destroy manufacturing
They want to destroy the energy industry
They want to destroy farming

All so they can save the planet.

But not the people.

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They want to destroy manufacturing
They want to destroy the energy industry
They want to destroy farming

That's progress. Live in gun free caves and eat bugs, worms, and tree nuts

Good for them!

The lefties and the greenies are all in on this crap....until the food dries up. They are literally trying to kill food production in Europe. And energy production.

This is their "stealth" way of depopulation to "save" the planet.

We don't need to depopulate Europe or the US to "save" the planet. Start looking at India and China if you are serious.

My FB "friend" in the Netherlands said the Dutch farmers are in on this and are blocking border crossings.

Excellent news

Interesting how EVERYTHING is the fault of the 'far right'.

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Interesting how EVERYTHING is the fault of the 'far right'.

The ‘Far Right’ has to be Bad. There has to be a bogeyman to be The Other. The Other gets killed. Literally. Which is also why history is being rewritten, and Leftist fairy tales are the new history.

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More world-wide conservative movements! Love to see it!

Their main demand is for the government to keep fuel subsidies at the current level. How is this conservative? Seems pretty librul to me.

Tucker Carlson Outlines the Farmers Protest, the Biggest Protests in German History

Nice to see Tucker Carlson bringing attention to the biggest protests in modern German history. Eva Vlaardingerbroek left the Netherlands to provide support for the farmers in Germany. WATCH:

Is it not a bit of hypocrisy to support their blocking roads for their cause, yet decrying the commies over here for blocking the roads for their cause du jour?

I'm thinking that I'd be just as pissed off if I was trying to get somewhere.

I don’t like blocking roads but at least these guys are doing it to protect their livelihood of feeding the world and their corrupted government rather than the lefts support for genocide and debauchery.

Twist it any way you like, but at the end of the day they demand their piece of government cheese because they are uncompetitive otherwise. As for resons why they are uncompetitive there can be many. I suspect it's because small family farms don't have the economy of scale enjoyed by giant agro holdings, just like a small kit car manufacturer won't be competitive against GM or Toyota. Would a true conservative support subsidies to keep afloat some niche car company which hand-assembles 200 cars per year?

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Twist it any way you like, but at the end of the day they demand their piece of government cheese because they are uncompetitive otherwise . As for reasons why they are uncompetitive there can be many. I suspect it's because small family farms don't have the economy of scale enjoyed by giant agro holdings, just like a small kit car manufacturer won't be competitive against GM or Toyota. Would a true conservative support subsidies to keep afloat some niche car company which hand-assembles 200 cars per year?

Ask your stomach how it would feel if a corporate farm in China no longer sends food to you because your countries are at war with each other and there are no alternatives because the locals couldn't compete with forced labor.

Sure there are subsidies, but some are rather necessary and those I am okay with. After WW1, most European countries learned that a domestic food supply was the key to sustaining a military and it's civilian population. During his build up to WW2, Hitler focused on military industrialization instead of food production. His plan was to seize the agricultural land to the East instead of investing in German agriculture. It worked, until it didn't. Europe got lucky that he didn't have the foresight to make Germany a little more self sustaining.

Point is, history seems to be repeating itself, and the last 2 times this happened, the world lost a few million people.

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Originally posted by echidna:
Twist it any way you like, but at the end of the day they demand their piece of government cheese because they are uncompetitive otherwise . As for reasons why they are uncompetitive there can be many. I suspect it's because small family farms don't have the economy of scale enjoyed by giant agro holdings, just like a small kit car manufacturer won't be competitive against GM or Toyota. Would a true conservative support subsidies to keep afloat some niche car company which hand-assembles 200 cars per year?

Ask your stomach how it would feel if a corporate farm in China no longer sends food to you because your countries are at war with each other and there are no alternatives because the locals couldn't compete with forced labor.

Sure there are subsidies, but some are rather necessary and those I am okay with. After WW1, most European countries learned that a domestic food supply was the key to sustaining a military and it's civilian population. During his build up to WW2, Hitler focused on military industrialization instead of food production. His plan was to seize the agricultural land to the East instead of investing in German agriculture. It worked, until it didn't. Europe got lucky that he didn't have the foresight to make Germany a little more self sustaining.

Point is, history seems to be repeating itself, and the last 2 times this happened, the world lost a few million people.

China is a bit of a red herring here, because not only they are net importer of food, but also because it can be dealt with using tariffs. Nothing wrong with being protective of your food supply,
but these subsidies are going way beyond that and into realm of goventment picking winners and losers inside Germany and the EU. Also, not sure about Germany, but a significant percentage of California agro ouput goes to, you guessed it, China. So basically our government subsidies (and our scarce water supplies) are assuring China's food security.

But my main point really is: like these FDR-inspired policies or hate them, just don't put them and people who clamour for them in the same sentense as the word "conservative".

Eh, farming subsidies and certain manufacturing subsidies, IMO, get into a gray area.

There are definitely some civic investment aspects in defense and health which come into play.

As a general rule, European food is cheap, and of vastly better quality than the U.S.

Their hygiene standards in processing are very low - that BSE came from the UK makes complete sense on review of the rules they had about “downer” animals, at the time.

As general rule, being dependent on imported food is very dangerous.