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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by JBlue42 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:55PM (#15863208)
I don't see them presenting it in a negative, just a fact, and one not understood in rural areas.

If you believe in wealth distribution, then richer coastal or urban areas should help out their brethren in the rural areas and spread the money around. It's when those rural brethren then attack the better off coastal / urban folks as stealing their money that things become problematic.

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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by grasshopperpurp on Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:19AM (#15870126)
Don't forget that red (more rural) states also receive political welfare in the form of the electoral college, so their misguided views carry more weight.
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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by JBlue42 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:19PM (#15874353)
Good point.

And then complain about being the neglected or down-trodden ones.

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