American Farmers Reportedly Horrified by Trumps Tariffs

[workinclasszero]

American Farmers Reportedly Horrified by Trump’s Tariffs
By Clint Rainey April 2, 2018

Iowa is America’s top pork producer, and already some estimate that 10 percent of the state’s farms will probably fail in the coming year.

Workers have begun comparing the situation to the 1980s farm crisis, the industry’s worst period since the Great Depression. Trump’s tariffs haven’t thrilled a lot of farmworkers in the state — the Iowa Soybean Association, in fact, just attacked them as an “immediate and grave threat” to the industry, arguing, “No winners emerge from a trade war and that’s particularly true when it involves food and nutrition.”

Trump, of course, ran on a platform of “saving” America’s farms, yet the situation looks increasingly bleak for farmers: Besides the tariffs, little has been done to help declining crop prices, and according to a recent NPR report, the “outlook for the next year is so bleak, it’s heightening worries — especially in the Northeast — about farmer suicides.”

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/04/american-farmers-are-horrified-by-trumps-tariffs.html

[dalton99a]

1. They didn't know what they voted for.

[workinclasszero]

6. Who could have seen this coming?

Well except every democrat alive, of course.

[DetlefK]

9. They voted for somebody who promised to be radically different.

With an aggressive ICE, farms are running out of illegal farmhands.
10% of farms could die this year because of the trade-war with China. Another 10% next year.
The GOP tax-cut means there's no money left over for an infrastructure-program.
Trump's EPA makes it easier for the industry to pollute your soil and groundwater.

Well, congratulations.

[Grammy23]

2. And they should be horrified.

Maybe they should have thought a little longer and harder what they were buying with tRump.

[rock]

56. And now they get realistic!

Now?

[Me.]

3. Fool You Once

and so on and so forth

[Squinch]

34. Oh, no. This won't stop them voting for him.

[gratuitous]

4. He was just supposed to make the libtards mad!

"Why's he gotta hurt us?" Because that's what he does, my Iowa simpletons. It's what he's always done. We tried to tell you, but you were too busy cackling about "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary" to see what was right in front of you.

[workinclasszero]

7. Trump and his party promised only the libtards would feel pain

SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[malaise]

5. They should have been horrified with the Con

PERIOD, but many of them voted for him. SAD!

[SummerSnow]

44. What's that saying? be careful what you wish for

[malaise]

48. They sure got what the duck got

Sadly so have folks who didn't support this madness

[GusBob]

8. In previous lean times, farmers could take other jobs

My farming relatives would get work in factories.

fat chance in these lean times

clerking at the dollar general gonna be the meal ticket

[workinclasszero]

10. Yup

And all the Chinese goods at the Dollar General and Walmart are going to be suddenly more expensive, SAD!

[Eyeball_Kid]

14. That's a step removed from begging in the streets.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. "Dollar General" will become "5 Dollar General". nt

[Achilleaze]

57. Or Yen General. More likely Ruble General

frikken republican pissing on America

[mercuryblues]

11. they can join

the miners, Carrier, Ford, and steal workers. All of whom has suddenly realized that trump lied to them, Despite his vast record of lying and his lies being exposed daily, they never believed trump would lie to them, he cares about them. To which I say, if he was craven enough to cut his disabled nephew off from healthcare, what makes you think he will suddenly care about you?

They grasped at straws to justify voting for him and now they are paying the price. Too bad the rest of us are being taken for the same ride.

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. Trumpy is a MASTER at emotional manipulation.

It's his emotional red meat that keeps farmers and factory workers in a tizzy. They buy his rhetoric while he steals their future. Now even MORE wealth will bypass Trumpy's Fanboys and land in the lap of the 1%. It's been his plan all along. He dons populist rhetoric while he steals from the common person. We should all notice that Trumpy hasn't proposed ONE piece of legislation that benefits the 99%. Oh. The tax cuts? Wait until the fine print hits the pocketbook. That measly 2 bucks a week is going to get cancelled out, and then some, by ending state and local tax deductions and the increase in health insurance premiums, all engineered by... Trumpy.

So Trumpy is high-fiving his billionaire buddies he sees at his golf resort, but is kicking everyone else in the balls.

You voted him in, Fanboys. Now take the beating you deserve.

[mercuryblues]

29. inflation is going to eat up that tax savings

and then some.

We were finally at almost full employment after the crash and wages were starting to rise. With this tax scam employers don't have to give out raises, a lower deduction from the payroll tax will give people the illusion of a higher wage. Well until they file their taxes, which will be after the 2018 elections.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. Massive pork operations are Not farms

They are huge buildings with giant pools of shit pumped into stinky ponds to dry. The poor pigs are locked up behind metal cages standing on grates all their short lives in spaces too small for them to turn around in. Death probably comes as a welcomed relief to them. This is not farming, this is intentional abuse.

And don't get me started on the corn, rice, soybean and wheat producers who will have a tough time finding better markets for their GMO, round up laced, pesticide covered, fungicide choked grains. They are planted with huge tractors the size of a house and sprayed once a week with some deadly poison. Then with huge combines after a good spraying of another round of round up, the grains are grabbed up and stored, where more crap is sprayed on them to keep them from rotting. This is not farming it is poison control.

[Squinch]

36. Careful, Rick. There's a vocal contingent here who insist we must eat Roundup for breakfast

because it's so great.

But I agree with you.

[mantis49]

45. I agree.

Driving through CAFO areas of the state can literally make your eyes tear up and make you want to vomit. Those are not farms.

[Blue_true]

61. Maybe their death will bring back true farming.

That produces food that was good to eat. BTW, the pork today taste nothing like the free range pork that I eat as a kid. Hogs were allowed to roam around clean fields that had trees for them to chill out under when it got hot, they frolicked in rain pools or hose pools and routed in the ground with their snouts.

We grew tomatoes and other vegetables from saved heirloom seeds.

So, if big farms die, I won't be crying.

[catbyte]

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[Girard442]

15. Similarly:

[louis-t]

17. I have a solution for the American farmer.

STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN!!!!!

[workinclasszero]

19. Sadly Fox & friends, Rush/Hannity and the local Mega church republican preacher

never point out this obvious fact to the deplorable farmtards.

Go figure huh?

[loyalsister]

54. Disgusting!

I don't expect my liberal peers to use ableist language that perpetuates stigma that is damaging to people who have intellectual disabilities. Why is it still okay to demean disabled people?

[workinclasszero]

55. Oh c'mon!

ReTHUGlicans call us libtards 24/7/365!

You ever listen to hate radio? Jeez.

I'm tired of watching nazi/KKK stormtroopers marching in the streets of America and high schools kids getting mowed down with NRA mass death weapons!

That's whats DISGUSTING!

It's time to fight FIRE with FIRE IMO!

[loyalsister]

58. No, I haven't listened to talk radio

Exploitation of bigotry to please audiences is not something I want to listen to.... ever, anywhere. It's not okay to tap into racial bigotry, misogynistic bigotry, anti LGBT bigotry, OR ableist bigotry regardless of who it is directed at. Everytime it happens, it is an endorsement of the hate that drives acceptance of beliefs that exclusion in the name of white nramative supremacy.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. All "they"* wanted

was to get rid of that n***er in the WH and they got their wish.

*(not "all" of them but enough of them to help with the complete blow-up of the country)

[workinclasszero]

21. Bingo

Trump's big Agribusiness pals will be all lined up to buy the thousands of bankrupt family farms created by Shitler's tariffs.

Enjoy your president SUCKERS!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

27. But then those corporate farms still

won't have a market to sell their expensive products to unless they "suddenly" ensure ($$$$) that Congress drops the tariffs after all of those small farms have been bought. That could be the tactic in play here.

Then bring those family "workers" back in at a pittance since "they"* hated unions so and voted for people who wanted "Right to Work™" legislation in place, with no increase in the minimum wage, let alone implementation of a "living wage". They will bow down to anyone willing to give them a farm job at all (of course even one without any health insurance and certainly "Obamacare" would not be needed either because... Obama.).

*("they" meaning not "all" but enough...)

[workinclasszero]

30. That could very well be the con huh?

Time will tell.

All I know is Trump and the republican party is gonna take real good care of the American family farmer, oh yes.

REAL GOOD care, racist idiots!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

33. !!!

That was from almost 40 years ago!

[workinclasszero]

40. Shows how old I am!

I loved SCTV!

[BumRushDaShow]

63. I used to watch it too.

[IluvPitties]

23. Thanks for bluntly expressing the truth!

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Made Even More Pathetic By The Simple Fact. . .

. . .that "it" wasn't running against the black guy. The black guy was retiring from that gig forever, so they would have gotten what they wanted (racist pukes) without burning the house down.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. That's what is so odd about it

He is still ranting and raving about "Obama" and trying to undo 8 years of policy.

[Squinch]

37. But they were being offered a woman, and that's even worse than the black guy in their minds.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Yeah, Probably So

Oh the Horror!

[Squinch]

41. Smart woman! Run away!!! Run away!!!! Oh, the shrinkage! Oh, the humanity!!!

[workinclasszero]

46. Yup

Trump was the white mans revenge AFAIC

Now he's blowing up their putrid little worlds and it was only supposed to be the libtards, PoC and gays day of reckoning!

F**king SUCKERS!

[Squinch]

49. In fact, though those of us not in his base will feel this, we will not feel it half as violently as

his little army of haters.

I'm having a little schadenfreude over this. I always feel that is not a good emotion to have, but nevertheless, I do.

[workinclasszero]

50. I'm enjoying the hell out of MAGA tears myself

I will laugh if Trump is the scourge of American farmers, most of whom vote religiously for republicans!

Fuck those bastards for imposing that evil POS on America and the world! I hope they rot in their hateful bile!

[Leith]

22. They Got What They Wanted

How come they're not happy?

How much more of this can they take before they listen to facts and reason?

[workinclasszero]

26. They must be tired of winning!

[Squinch]

39. Exactly. They voted for him because he was going to "bring the pain." Well, here it is. Suckas.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. HE SAID HE WAS GONNA.

[Oneironaut]

28. The economy was doing good before b/c Trump didnt change Obamas policies yet.

Now that the Trump agenda is taking effect, the economy is going to start self-destructing.

Why anyone would take a winning formula and messing with it is beyond me. Trump is an idiot, and is going to crash the economy.

[smirkymonkey]

31. And watch.

They will vote for him all over again.

[Stallion]

32. I Thought FarmersOnly.com Solved the Farmers Suicide Problem

[workinclasszero]

43. LOL!

[SummerSnow]

42. Fucking winning, I say not

[ismnotwasm]

47. Sell your soul to the devil

Comes a time to pay the price

[GoCubsGo]

51. Bed. Made. Lie.

And, fuck you for making the rest of us lie in it with you.

[awesomerwb1]

52. Tariffs + immigrant persecution

is not a good combination for farmers.

[workinclasszero]

53. Ain't that the truth

The cognitive dissonance of these idiots must be huge!

[Blue_Tires]

59. Deal with it, assholes...

You wanted the crazy fucker, you smeared all our faces with shit when he got the electoral vote majority (note that I didn't say "he won&quot , and now you can live with the consequences... Try turning off Faux News and maybe vote Dem once in awhile?


signed,

Scott

[Coventina]

60. Why are they horrified? Trump promised to punish China, and he kept his promise!!

They got exactly what they voted for!

Bunch of whiney snowflakes, if you ask me.

[moondust]

62. For Iowa, bad to worse.

November 22, 2017

Very bad news this week for both Governor Kim Reynolds and the Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported the second quarter economic growth by state (GDP). Iowa’s economic growth was a negative .7%, dead last among all 50 states.
~
https://iowastartingline.com/2017/11/22/iowa-now-dead-last-gdp-growth-republican-control/

[OliverQ]

64. Stock market is going back on.

Analysts on the radio were saying they don't think Trump will go through with massive protectionism or tariffs so they're not as concerned right now. /smh

It's amazing how blind and dumb so many people are that they give trump a free pass on absolutely everything.