As I See It
Trump and Republican policies are costing farmers their livelihood
Right now, the media is not focusing enough — or at all — on the steady stream of harm the Trump Administration is doing to Wisconsin farmers.
After running as a champion of rural America, Trump has enacted policy after policy that hits farmers’ pocketbooks. The on-again, off-again trade wars prevent farmers from selling their products overseas.
William Garcia is the La Crosse County and 3rd Congressional District Democratic Party chair
The cuts in SNAP benefits, while harming the poorest families in Wisconsin, also impacts farmers who can no longer sell their products to the government to supply SNAP programs.
The gutting of USAID has been a massive hit to farmers, as 80% of the funds the federal government spent on international aid was buying U.S. agricultural products to send overseas.
Over and over, Trump’s policies are costing Wisconsin farmers money.
Attacks on immigrants have strangled farmers, leaving farmers unable to plant and harvest their crops efficiently.
Then, cuts to agricultural subsidies and programs like the Dairy Innovation Center, mean farmers lose access to important advances in their field.
Republicans love to talk about how much they love rural Americans. If that were true, they would not be preventing farmers from earning money from their hard work.
As I see it, I’m William Garcia.
Roy
June 6, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Ivan Garcia gets his own “As I See It”
Does this mean he has his own toilet again at WIZM?
Ivan complains that Trump’s “attacks on immigrants”….
He means illegals, of course. Garcia would have open borders, free doctors and medicine for all illegals, driver’s licenses, free housing and welfare money for all of them as he watched your tax dollars pay for it.
Deep down, Ivans are all Bolsheviks.
Are local Republican officials going to wake up and tell Ivan how things really are?
walden
June 9, 2025 at 1:15 pm
Garcia and his sidekicks at WIZM see social welfare as the solution to all the other problems they have created.
Somehow, Garcia thinks the future for farmers should be supplying food for government welfare programs like SNAP. However, one of the stated purposes of the tariffs and trade negotiation is to open more foreign markets to U.S. agriculture. That would be good for U.S. farmers.
It’s odd Garcia is suddenly worrying about farmers when in the recent past the primary Democrat contribution to the ag industry was government programs to limit cow flatulence. Thank goodness that foolishness has been stopped.
John
June 7, 2025 at 6:54 am
Blown away that Wizm has hired this guy. Not really though. Whoever did should get a raise, it will keep me reading their website to know what not to believe. The same guy that told us Trump was a Russian asset, Biden was fit for office mentally, January 6th was as bad as Pearl Harbor, Trump was going to destroy the United States, still doing this, Kamala Harris was going to destroy Trump and be a better president, boys can be girls, and girls can be boys, take your Covid shot, and your boosters. With a track record like this why wouldn’t you hire Mr. Garcia he’s excellent in predicting and telling us what is going to happen. It is fitting that he works at UWL on the tax payers dime telling the tax payer how dumb they are. AS I SEE IT.
As a side note all the shows on WIZM are conservative talk radio but all the in house WIZM shows are democrat talk shows. Assuming the advertisers know this and try to put their adds on during the 9-7 listening times.
Again thanks like usual for letting Mr. Parish go the one that got positive feedback and replacing him with Garcia. I will be looking forward to more his I hate America topics coming the future. Congrats Mr. Millard
david greener
June 7, 2025 at 8:32 am
too bad about Parish .He was a voice of reason. Would have liked to see him take over the early morning slot at 6:oo A.M
Libertarian guy
June 7, 2025 at 1:33 pm
I don’t think WIZM hired Ivan Garcia. I think his “as I see it“ was a spot presented by him as a citizen, a socialist citizen, but a citizen nonetheless. Any member of the public can record and “as I see it“ piece. That said, it is very disappointing. What WIZM has done to the Mike Hayes legacy.
I heard that Andy Parish is behind the scenes at WKBT. We certainly have not heard from him on WIZM in a long time. He would’ve been the perfect choice to replace Mike Hayes, whom I sorely miss and called friend. Most of us conservative leaning in long time listeners and participants have moved on.
Libertarian guy
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 pm
And in response to Ivan Garcia…
… Like most socialists, he knows not the harm he does. For some reason he wants to prioritize 1 group (the farmers) over everyone else. Inherent in his piece is the idea that it is OK to take from all citizens at their expense to help one specific group. I have to ask, why do the farmers need government taxpayer help? If I open a business, I do not expect the government to give me a subsidy. My business should stand on its own merits or it should fail and be replaced by a better business owner, a larger business, a merger, etc. Continued spending proposed by Ivan Garcia to benefit the few over the many is bankrupting our country. As a socialist, perhaps that’s what he wants or is ignorant of the potential consequences of socialist ideas. Socialists want the government to have the power instead of the individual. They don’t prefer liberty, and these socialist ideas are bankrupting the country. I guess when it all collapses, we will only have Ivan Garcia and his ilk to blame.
walden
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 pm
It’s well recognized in the community that the WIZM crowd are fools and simps for progressive causes and all things Democrat.
I suppose Andy Parrish embarrassed them (if that is possible) as he produced several editorials adressing the attack by a UW-EauClaire professor on conservative students, even while WIZM news refrained from reporting on the incident. If Parrish has left, I wish him luck and recognize he is better off without WIZM.
Regarding, Garcia, he is largely dismissed as a bloviating clown even within Dem ranks. The real question is will local Republicans respond with their own “As I See It” column? That is doubtful; based on their past, they have likely slept through the entire performance.
DH
June 10, 2025 at 6:30 am
I left WIZM when Hayes left.
DH
June 10, 2025 at 6:30 am
I left WIZM when Hayes passed!