National Farmers Federation solution is to get rid of the farmers
Farming is an essential service
Barnaby Joyce joins in the chorus to throw farmers off the land
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter has today slammed the National Farmers Federation (NFF) after they appeared on national television and announced they were lobbying the government to provide financial incentives to drought-affected farmers to leave their land; a campaign which is being echoed by the National Party.
A livid Mr Katter said, “Your solution is to get rid of the farmers. It is in the back of the mind of every intelligent Australian ‘why do you want these people out?’ So your big corporate masters, Chinese investors, prominent amongst them can buy them out and we can have corporate farmers. The city suits and foreign nations will be our farmers and we peasants will be out there working for nothing in little towns that are vanishing. That is the solution by National Farmers Federation.”
The NFF, a farming lobby group, proposed six measures to the Government last week, one of which was an incentive payment to leave the land. Other measures in the proposal were rate relief to help pay local government charges, payments that are the equivalent to Newstart allowance, $2,000 top-up of the Assistance for Isolated Children allowance, two-year interest free government loans and a plan to work with state and territory governments to eradicate feral pigs.
While the NFF has been critical of the ad-hoc response to drought by the Government, Mr Katter believes that exit packages are not the answer.
“The KAP, the political party I belong to, says Reconstruction Bank. It’s just so simple that you’ve got to be curious why they won’t do it.
“The Reconstruction Bank, through the Government, can borrow at, probably, a bit below 2% so it can lend at 1.9%. Where aa farmer now owes an average $1 million, he has to find $54,000 a year to pay to the bank. Under the Reconstruction Bank he’ll now be paying $16,000 to the bank.
“The Reconstruction Bank buys bad ‘in danger’ debts at a discount. The farmer will then owe the Reconstruction Bank not the full $1 million he owed the bank but only $850,000 giving him leeway to buy fodder.”
Mr Katter also took aim at the Government’s sorry attempts at financial assistance for primary producers, “The Federal Government claiming they have done something with the farm and financial assistance grants, that one is one huge whopper. Hungry Jacks would love that one, that’s the biggest whopper of all.
“It was the Rural Action Council of Far North Qld, secured at Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd’s Drought Summit that gave us that concession. The tragedy is when Rural Action was screaming against former Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson’s, dreadful comment that “we don’t need 240,000 farmers in Australia we only need 120,000”, well the National Party has achieved its objective, we now have less than 120,000 farmers and of those farmers around one in 10 have been on welfare payments, the Family Assistance Grants, given to us, not by our traditional party, the National Party, but by our traditional enemies the ALP.”
“If the KAP gets a commanding position in the Parliament, as Knuth, Katter and Dametto have said again and again, they will immediately reintroduce the reconstruction bank which was successfully run for over 100 years in Queensland.
“We have already lost half of our farmers in the last 20 years. Clearly it is the intention of the NFF, and their political wing, the National Party, to get rid of another half. The farmers are doing it tough? Their solution: get rid of the farmers.”
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First they take our guns ……know they move in to take our greatest asset our land….They being the government ….will this give banks leverage to put the pressure on struggling primary producers ????? Very uncertain times of us all
Thanks Cairns News doing a terrific job
Hi Howard are you a LNP supporter? Surely not a supporter of the hopeless NFF? Read it properly or go back to school. Ed
Be careful ? This is poor reporting. My read of the paragraphs, leads me to believe YOU are muddled in the head. Your reporting contradicts most of your own statements. GET IT RIGHT or don’t do it at all ??
If they succeed, we can likely expect in increase in poisons & GMO’s introduced into the food supply, via corporate farming practices, which must be part of the agenda.
Consider: Internet search Rothschild – Vatican – UN Agenda 21 – Protocols of Zion – New World Order . Fabian Society . Australia is to be culled by 50% by 2025 . the self styled elites-soul less globalists regard us as “goyim” . animals to be culled . they have no humanity . just POWER . GREED !.
Many traitorous politicians are controlled by the same DEPLORABLES!
WAKE UP AUSTRALIANS!
As I am sure a lot of readers know, we are in the throws of the managed decline of Australia – started way back Lima etc.. Barneby has learnt his lesson I see.. Our government, on behalf of the globalist criminals, is managing our loss of productivity – manufacturing is gone, farmers next it seems..