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Jen Hayden at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/3/1754073/-Trump-tariff-backlash-causes-panic-in-rural-America-as-mega-jobs-losses-appear-on-the-horizon
"SNIP..........
Bottom line? Many of the heaviest losses will run right through Trump country.
The Brookings analysis which is based on proprietary EMSI and Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that the largest sum of vulnerable jobs is in fruit and nut farming, with the majority concentrated in Trump counties. Most of the jobs in hog and pig farming and pipe production are also concentrated in Trump country. Its only in wineries where Clinton counties have the most jobs.
CNNs Erin Burnett spoke to a farmer who said if Trump didnt reverse the tariff decision, hed be voting differently in the future:
Erin Burnett
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@ErinBurnett
Trump voter and Iowa hog farmer Tim Schmidt tells me Chinese tariffs will cost him $35k/year. 3,700 jobs at risk in his county alone. If tariffs dont change, says his vote at risk.
9:25 PM - Apr 2, 2018
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Iowa isnt the only state that will be hard hit by Trumps trade war. As noted in the Washington Post, the impact will be felt in rural communities nationwide.
........SNIP"
DBoon
(22,366 posts)Reality, having a known liberal bias, catches up to you
Takket
(21,573 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)But I believe it is from Colbert
Hekate
(90,704 posts)...when that phrase was coined. I would love to have it as a bumper sticker myself!
calimary
(81,289 posts)back when dubya was pResident.
And reality isn't all that's got a liberal bias. Just study the teachings of Jesus our Savior. Matthew 25: 35-45 is a good read.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Hekate
(90,704 posts)Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)But isn't it "The TRUTH has a liberal bias"?
brush
(53,782 posts)works. He seems to think targeting tariffs at certain countries is the end of it and his mission is done,
stupidly not realizing that those countries can retaliated with tariffs of their own against industries here
in the USincluding red states full of workers and farmers who voted for him and will be harmed by the retaliatory tariffs.
God, even "Presidenting for Dummies" wouldn't help him as he doesn't read.
Stupid is as stupid does.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,054 posts)I think "utterly clueless" is a more appropriate description, Hedda.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Ligyron
(7,632 posts)There's a new crop every 10 years.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)he is a traitor but if he costs me a dime THEN and ONLY then will I turn on him
FUCK YOU mr dumbshit hog farmer, you god damn NON patriots!
Afromania
(2,768 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)It's mind-boggling. The man will lose out on $37000 for himself and his family. Even facing that his vote is only "at risk." Honestly, I can see no course for us other than to ignore these brainwashed people and concentrate our efforts on registering voters and getting people to the polls.
3catwoman3
(23,997 posts)...think differently to attempting to persuade anti-vaxx parents - waste of breath and ain't gonna happen.
AJT
(5,240 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Squinch
(50,950 posts)society, and then they're shocked, shocked I tell you, that he's willing to screw them over.
I guess now they'll have all that reason for all that anger that made them vote for him.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)These rubes should've thought of that back in 2016
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Commodity Brokers were warning of this last fall when the forward Corn and Soy Contracts ended with China and Mexico. Contract Poultry Growers are the next ones on the chopping block.
Last week there were stories about Mid Western Banks worried about Farmers not being able to payback or have assest's to take on further debt.
calimary
(81,289 posts)I swear, and I've said it before - by the time we're finally rid of him, we won't have a friend in the world. Including Putin. He's just there as an opportunistic infection, temporarily, only as long as it serves his own interests.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)presently being filled or in the mix. Mexico was first to not renew any contracts. Only Grain going into Mexico seems to be going to American owned Operations.
Takket
(21,573 posts)i applaud them for targeting red state products like they have. the best way to hurt drumpf is to hurt his supporters. smart politics.
Demsrule86
(68,579 posts)The entire economy will suffer.
Takket
(21,573 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Demsrule86
(68,579 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)and no care of people truly in poverty
Demsrule86
(68,579 posts)have had it pretty good no matter who was in office so many of them have to be racist scum. And maybe they will have more sympathy for the poor if they experience it. I was poor as a young woman...I mean almost starving poor...l had food stamps but it wasn't enough. I hate potatoes, oatmeal and especially spaghetti to this day. I had Grandma's depression recipes so I never went truly hungry and my kid was fed probably better than other kids as she didn't get junk food. It was miserable though. And at the end of the month I was really low on food. It changed the way I thought about things. In fact I swallowed my pride and told my parents the truth and went home..being the best parents on earth, they took me back and sent me to college. I was lucky to have parents who could afford this and who believed in second chances.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)and other blue states (Oregon, Washington, and New York)
Interesting that the biggest wine producing states are democratic leaning
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Fruit is highly perishable, would be surprised if much is exported, maybe preserves of the fruit.
I cook with wine, don't drink any. Even if wine doubles in price, I will still buy it for use in recipes.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Rush will tell them a thousand times a day that libturds are the cause of their economic decline, that Nancy Pelosi has targeted them for revenge, that this is the long-term effect of an Obama recession, and then Sean will grab them by the ballz and tell them that Trump can't do what they voted him into office to do because Deep State and Nancy Pelosi, you know.
And they'll pull the lever for the -R again in November.
These are not people who do cause and effect. They only do effect, and let their mouthpieces invent the cause.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)The open racism or promises of gutting healthcare for millions were ok. Just harming those other people is ok.
central scrutinizer
(11,649 posts)Nfm
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)The perfect idiom for idiots.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I would stand and applaud his accidental ethical behavior.
oasis
(49,388 posts)Not to worry. They'll buy anything Trump sells them.
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)calimary
(81,289 posts)Where's Ross Perot when we need him?
Maven
(10,533 posts)Fuck these deplorables. I hope it hits them hard. I wish I could feel empathy for them, but I'm too busy worrying about all the ways their vote has harmed and will harm people who didn't ask for any of this. So fuck them, hard.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)These voters knew who he was, and still voted for him because the idea of a woman POTUS offended them more than the potential hits to their pocketbook (especially after 8 years with a black POTUS). And now we all have to suffer.
To hell with them.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)A prime demographic determined to vote directly against their own personal well being.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)I hope he goes bankrupt.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)From a known con man they are going to get royally screwed over. I feel very little sympathy for them.
JI7
(89,250 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)the campaign, and STILL this dimwit voted for him.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)More interested in seeing Mexicans rousted from the country, as long as it wasn't Mexican immigrants working on their farms.
The thought of a female President coming after a Black President scared the bejesus out of them.
They hated Muslims, Trump hated Muslims, so anything else Trump said flew over their heads.
Honestly, I am sure of one thing. If those people go bankrupt, the economically vibrant places in the country will hardly notice if republicans in Washington do not try to bail out their base. Products flow to money, if cities can't get pork from a bankrupt Iowa pig farmer, ones from blue states near them will fill the void.
freethought
(2,457 posts)2left4u
(186 posts)We've been in a trade war for years...it's been completely dominated by China who have mastered the art. Now that we are finally fighting back his supporters whine about how it works?
They're all to ignorant, and don't understand how trade works or how they've inadvertently been participating in it for years.
I don't feel sorry for them at all...they got what they voted for and truthfully it might actually do some good for them to pitch in like the rest of us have had to.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)to fleece you. Unfortunately, many of us who didn't vote for him will be drug along in this shitshow.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)except Trump, of course. Trump....who LIES.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,006 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)as do policies
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)calimary
(81,289 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Fuck them
Initech
(100,079 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)But everything to do with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and transphobia. And the American voters have fallen time and time again for it.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)This in not a country where people are concerned with what's best for the country (and therefor whats best for everybody), this is a country that is only concerned with whats going in their pocket tomorrow. And for that I'm having a sad.
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I hope they all lose, the farmers, their farms, their families, their suppliers, their banks, their small towns, their schools, their local government, all of it. I hope the grain, pork, ginseng, dairy industries, all of them, lose
Yes I understand that means us customers too, but fuck it, there is plenty of suffering to go around.
I am ashamed to feel this way, but Lord I am tired
lunasun
(21,646 posts)could . I don't know anyone who voted for trump , but as you said there is plenty of suffering to go around for everybody whether they helped it happen or not since he was elected.
I'll concentrate on concern for those who through no fault of thier own are harmed by his policies, not those who helped bring on this scourge and proudly celebrated his win
connecticut yankee
(1,728 posts)they'll still all vote for him.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)here reminded us that is what we have descended to.
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)Tariffs are a tax on people who use the imported product. 10%, 25%, these are extremely punishing compared with the sales taxes we all pay. I can hear a new (anti-Trump) campaign commercial:
Bad for business.
Bad for consumers.
Bad for America!
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)He's a freaking real estate developer with a record of shady deals and bankruptcies. These fools that voted for him are getting exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately. Maybe now they'll think before they vote.
3catwoman3
(23,997 posts)...anything. He knows how to bluster, bully, and lie, and that's about it.
Daxter
(103 posts)Time and time again they vote republican and the same thing happens over and over again. They get screwed over by conservative policies and refuse to elect Democrats that have their interests in mind.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)No, what is at risk is your livelyhood. Your vote is already done.
d_r
(6,907 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Look, I'm sure there will be trickle down effects on businesses throughout the country, including those in blue or purple communities.
And I guess I'm sympathetic to red state dems. But the reality is that "those people" brought this on themselves for being low-information voters who deliberately chose - and still choose - to get their news from propaganda outlets. Hard to drum up sympathy.
ProfessorGAC
(65,054 posts). . . with a message that America sucks, but we didn't used to. They think they're patriots but voted for that message?
No, they were bigoted buffoons who had stars in their eyes about how some magical person was going to come along and make everybody rich because it's so easy.
They're stupid and they better wake up.
And on top of all that, this guy says he MIGHT change his vote? Idiot.