Farmers are losing patience with Trump's trade war

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Farmers in the Midwest are losing a lot of sleep these days.

A recent flare-up in the US-China trade war has them panicking that much of their crops may rot for a second year in a row. Some are even worried they may lose their farms if the international spat continues much longer.

“We don’t want to be collateral damage,” Kevin Paap, a corn and soybean farmer in southern Minnesota, told me. “If they don’t reach a conclusion soon, it’s going to be really somber times.”

After launching a two-year trade war with China, the Trump administration seemed close to reaching a deal with Beijing to reopen commerce between the world’s two largest economies. But earlier this month, those talks collapsed, and everything has gone downhill since then.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farmers-are-losing-patience-with-trumps-trade-war/ar-AABv8iG

We'll see if that's more than talk come 2020.

[Chin music]

1. Aren't gop/farm losses insured by the American taxpayer? No downside to voting repub,

I thought? Farmers will continue to vote gop. Another farm bail-out is on the docket, isn't it? Hard to learn a lesson, if they never learn their lesson.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Yep, sure seems that way to me.

[Ohiogal]

3. Someone on DU wrote a few days ago

that the farmers will grumble about this until the GOP starts on guns and abortion, then they will still pull the lever for R’s. Very accurate, I thought.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Like the peanut brain of a homing pidgeon. It always comes home to roost.

[Downtown Hound]

4. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

I do feel sorry for the farmers who didn't vote for Trump, and I know they're out there. The rest of them can go to hell. They didn't give a shit when Trump almost took our health care away or our reproductive rights.