#3152402 - 02/05/13 06:42 AM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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BowGirl
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Thanks for posting. First time i had seen it. Good commercial.
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#3152480 - 02/05/13 08:25 AM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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348Winchester
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I've worked on farms in Tennessee and Montana. My mother owns a farm in Oklahoma that's been in our family over 100 years. I know that farming is damned hard work and HEAVILY subsidized by the government. Dodge played upon many things with their commercial and it obviously worked on many of you. That's what a good pitch does!
God had nothing to do with Dodge or farmers utilizing government programs.
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#3152483 - 02/05/13 08:26 AM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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Crappie Luck
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We get it. It was a GREAT ad. But this is a conversation not a bumper sticker. It flows and changes.
I loved the ad, but posting that alone doesn't make a very interesting conversation.
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#3152568 - 02/05/13 09:17 AM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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AT Hiker
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Dodge played off a weakness most have, ignorance of American agriculture. They romanicized the cowboy in a way that will lead most to think that is the way it is. 90% of farms are owned by small farmers, yet out of the 2 million farns only 46,000 produce enough to truly matter (make a honest living). Cooperate farms and government regulation hurt us (farmers). I do not know of more than a handful of farmers who could afford a new truck, thats the problem and thats the problem I had with the commercial.
Ram is also giving 1 million to the national FFA, chump change considering they got 10.5 billion from us in bailouts.
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#3152993 - 02/05/13 04:01 PM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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iowavf
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The way I took the commercial they were depicting actual small potatoes, pardon the pun, farmers. The description of a farmer in the AD doesn't even begin to depict "corporate farmers" that might be getting the subsidies spoken of. I thought they were paying tribute to the "small guys" who work a farm to TRY and scratch out a living. Never once did I think "Monsanto" et.al. while the commercial was airing. Maybe I took it the wrong way. 
Edited by iowavf (02/05/13 04:03 PM)
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#3153011 - 02/05/13 04:20 PM
Re: So God Made A Farmer
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RKenney
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Why do so many have to make everything political. It was a great commercial and I loved it.
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