Agriculture isn't nearing trade war tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say
Agriculture isn't nearing trade war tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say
U.S. agriculture exporters said global backlash to Trump's tariffs is already resulting in canceled orders and farm layoffs.
well fuck them
They should all start dumping mounds of shit on the steps of congress.
I don't trust individual story headlines on topics that are not individual stories
Getting what they voted for yet again.
My vendors & customers all have crops rotting in the field right now.
This is the start of the American Holodomir, thanks to the GOP & Putin.
He’s gonna bail them out and they wont learn their lesson. They need to taste the nasty medicine!
So... Trump has scared off the significant numbers of ... well just any kind of immigrant, legal or illegal... farm laborers...
Cancelled a bunch of farmer loan assistance programs...
... And started a tariff trade war that makes it essentially impossible for them to... import needed materiel, export harvests... or even be able to plan for a future scenario with any kind of new established, solid trade paradigm.
... Man we're all gonna starve, fucking great.
EDIT: Do not know how this did not occur to me initially:
American holodomor, anyone?
And how did those farmers vote?
From the interviews I've been seeing, at least some of them voted against Trump due to concerns about bullshit like this. I expect the majority did vote for him, in which case yes, karma's a bitch. But a) we shouldn't be treating them as a single voting block that all vote the same way, and b) regardless of the schadenfreude we get watching the Trump supporters among them freaking out now, there are grave knock-on effects for consumers looming - including those consumers who didn't vote for Trump.
blaming your fellow citizens will only get a repeat every four years
elites want us blaming each other and not them
Guy keeps sticking his keys in a power outlet and gets hurt.
My guy, if you keep sticking your keys in the power outlet, you're gonna hurt yourself.
Blaming the guy's pain on his sticking his keys in the power outlet will only get a repeat of the behavior.
Elites want us blaming each other and not them.
This is those voters' oyster.
Make sure to vote republican again you idiots. Just wait until trump takes all that welfare money you get.
If we replaced First past the post voting, Republicans could be free to vote outside the two party system without a spoiler effect. This would spur the creation of new political parties and encourage a competition on who can represent people the best.
Or not vote at all because of being a stupid fucking moron, and also genocide or some shit.
The farmers should take a page from the European one's book and block the roads. Or even better, drop tons and tons of manure on the White House lawn.
Better yet, Mar a Lago.
Farmers showing us that working hard and working smart are clearly two different things. Shame they completely forgot the latter. TFI said “profits!” and those hard workers just assumed he meant theirs. The morons obviously didn’t learn fuckall from his first regime.
There are still some family owned farms. Can't go back to feudalism without all the family farms going bankrupt and selling out to mega-farm conglomerate corporations.
agriculture is facing another looming financial challenge with the recently announced SHIPS Act [...] with Chinese-made vessels calling U.S. ports to be charged port fees of upwards of $1.5 million starting in the fall.
Ugh, I hate this reality so much .... :(
Last ship from China is next month. Even if T**** drops the tariffs today, supply lines are already compromised for months.