Charlott NC broadcasting and web publishing outlet carries an AP web feed about farm debt relief per USDA assistance.
It is only fair, students who foresaw jobs that never happened, help them.
Farmers who foresaw good crops, prices, good weather and then faced pressure, help them.
Two sides of the same coin. The government assisting those in a pinch. It is what government is for, as part of providing for the common good per roads, bridges, public goods, where help for those facing distress situations - that is a common good.
Keeping concentration in farming down by helping the marginal survivors, a public good.
Educating a part of the population able to be gaining access to higher education leads to a better educated, inventive and entrepreneurial populace - wiser voters too - and is a public good.
And all that good a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of the military industrial complex's annual upkeep.
What could be more sensible?
And why do the Republicans not act like good citizens and praise both sensible programs? Because -
FURTHER: Another public good program, where Republican support should be expected. (Whether there or not.)