In South Dakota, patience wears thin as tariffs hit home

[jpak]

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/13/south-dakota-trump-tariffs-hit-home/780376002/

South Dakota farmers and ranchers this week weathered the first round of tariffs and talk of an imminent trade war.

It's a hit they'd hoped to avoid for months and one they've been paying for for weeks as uncertainty loomed large over the market, dragging down the price of key crops.

The tariff talks have already cost South Dakota farmers and ranchers hundreds of millions of dollars, experts said, as the value of their crops has dipped amid international concern about new tariffs.

It's a loss that many can't sustain and one that elected officials and others worried could tank the state's economy.

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[dalton99a]

1. Maybe they should grow some smarts instead

But "their support for the president remained steady"

Fuck them.

[SamKnause]

2. Did you vote for Trump ???

If you did you have earned and deserve everything coming your way !!!


If you did NOT vote for Trump you have my empathy and sympathy.

I hope you can survive the damage that Trump has, and will cause.

[Iliyah]

3. Wel well well, the Democratic Party tried to warn you guys.

But I guess hating was more important than survival.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Better start negotiations with ADM, Cargill, DuPont/Pioneer or Monsanto before farms go to auction.

.

At least you might get 50 cents on the dollar, before those firms get your properties for 20 cents on the dollar.

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[Wounded Bear]

6. Yep, that's the real strategy...

drive out the last of the independent farmers.

Anybody who is surprised hasn't been paying attention.

[Jake Stern]

36. Even if it's an unintended consequence

It's terrible yet I still have trouble sympathizing with them.

[Wounded Bear]

38. I seriously doubt it was "unintended"...

Seriously doubt that.

[mitch96]

19. Holy crap, I never thought about that

Tariffs cause decreased demand, farmers go belly up. Big Agra buys the farms for a song and then tell tRump to end tariffs and boom, big agra makes a killing..
Ahhh Capitalism at it's finest..

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[Wellstone ruled]

37. Oh the afore mentioned Companies are on the ground in Eastern South Dakota

big time. There are LLC's set up by these folks in every County and in some areas,if they don't out right own the Productive Land,they control is via Lease operations.

Was in Eastern Sodak in 2016 helping set up a Commercial Weed Control company,dealing with right of way and possible drift issues,we encountered many of these same cry baby Farmers. Do remember one good sized operator who was a registered Dem,and he said if Trump does get elected,he predicted the collapse of his areas farm economy..

For him,he felt he could survive for few years with his contracts for Corn to the Local Ethanol plant. Will be interesting to see first hand how these folks are doing in a few weeks when we get back to that area.

[RKP5637]

5. I wonder how many voted for Trump, ignoring all warnings and all intelligence about Trump.

You reap what you sow (vote for). They should be rejoicing. This is what they voted for. Wait until it really kicks in, they they should be partying 7x24!

[Wounded Bear]

8. They'll have plenty of time to "party" after they lose their farms...

[RKP5637]

9. You know, I'm not a callous person at all, but I really have no sympathy for them. They voted in a

guy that is destroying lives for millions of people, millions, so they need to enjoy what they voted in. I could care less if they lose their farms.

[Wounded Bear]

12. On a personal level, I agree, but...

on a political/social level it just enhances the corporatization of our country.

More fascism, driving our food supply.

[RKP5637]

15. Yep, more USA, Inc. For the money, not the people. n/t

[PearliePoo2]

18. I just looked up the election results for how South Dakota voted.

From Wikipedia:

"South Dakota has voted for the Republican ticket in every election since 1968. Donald Trump continued the Republican tradition in South Dakota, carrying the state with 61.5% of the vote, to Hillary Clinton's 31.7% of the vote,[1] a 29.8% margin of victory, the largest for either party candidate since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's 38.5% margin in 1952. South Dakota was also one of eight states where Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson won over 5% of the vote."

I also looked at a map and there were 5 counties out of a total of 66 in the state that Clinton won.

[RKP5637]

20. Then they should be just peachy happy! They can share in the pestilence trump is bestowing

on the country. Party time farmers!

[world wide wally]

30. They are getting exactly what they voted for

Promises made, promises kept.
Now STFU and get back to work, peons.

[RKP5637]

31. They can work the fields for their new masters. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

39. Yep!!! Let's reinstate share cropping...

[IADEMO2004]

7. and billionaires with shiny new tax break cash can scoop up ranches and farms.

but her email............. she's a bitch...............he's someone I'd like to have a beer with.............dumb shits

[RKP5637]

11. Ohhhhhhhhh, thank god we were saved from her emails. Thank the russians, thank trump,

thank the GOP coup. Yep, billionaires collect all, ain't trickle down economics great.

[Squinch]

28. THIS is the rest of the story. Hope they see it. Bet they don't.

[Achilleaze]

40. Bingo! Another republican scheme to defraud the middle class for the fatcats

disgusting

[LonePirate]

10. Ignorance coming home to roost. Racial resentment has drawbacks which they are now experiencing.

[hatrack]

13. It's OK - you can always have another mug of Liberal Tears

[lpbk2713]

14. Be careful what you wish for. You got it.

Go ahead. Keep voting (R). You'll be out on the street sooner or later.

[NickB79]

16. Anecdotally, all the political signs the farmers had up here were "TRUMP"

[peggysue2]

17. But . . . But . . .

the Trumpster said 'his people' would be willing to sacrifice and see the greater good for the future.

That would be a future of foreclosure and destitution.

I won't gloat on this news because keeping your head above water as a farmer in the best of times is . . . really difficult. I would suggest that these farmers and ranchers join Dems in November so we can turn this around for them and everyone else.

Because if they stubbornly stay in Trump's corner, they will be signing their own death warrant. As well as the country's.

[dalton99a]

23. Trump will sign emergency legislation for a bailout

and everything will be MAGA again

[yardwork]

32. I don't think so. The purpose of this is to let Big Ag buy all the land.

This is a land grab. The small farmers default on their loans and foreign-owned corporations buy up all the land. That's why they put Trump in office. Mission accomplished.

I wonder what they're planning to do with all the U.S. land they will own?

[peggysue2]

35. That's a scary proposition but . . .

I think it rings true. The Trumpster is not and never has been for the working class elements who support him so ardently.

They've signed a pact with the Devil. They just don't know it yet.

[Iliyah]

24. But they will still blame someone else

ummmmmmm. like Pres O, the Clintons and the Liberals. They never learn and they usually vote against their own interest.

A Democratic Party's President usually have to step in and save the democracy and the economy. A Democratic Party congress in the minority try to save democracy and the economy, but the Democratic Party, Liberals and Progressives are the evil ones cause fake news say so.

[Aristus]

21. Too fucking bad, South Dakota.

I hope 'pissing off the liberals' and telling 'foreigners' to 'go back to their country!' was worth it...

[PearliePoo2]

22. Obviously it's not going to be just South Dakota either.

Tighten up your belts Mid-West farmers.

You may have to eat the corn and beans you planted for your dinner every night.

Better buy a bigger freezer and some canning jars.

[roamer65]

25. I am really getting sick of all their bitching.

The ones that voted for him need to just STFU.

[SamKnause]

27. ....

[Squinch]

26. Gosh. How very sad for them.

They only wanted whiny donnie to make OTHER people's lives miserable.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. Heck, they should all receive nice notes from the rest of us, pointing out

that they got EXACTLY what they voted for.

[shanny]

33. This is the only way to get rid of trump:

peel off his base. Make him look like the weak, stupid, incompetent, uncaring jerk that he is. Fortunately, he is helping as much as he can. But Democrats and the media need to make/stress the point for the dunderheads to get it--after their pockets and lives have been negatively impacted.

[Tatiana]

34. Sounds like these working class folks got exactly what they voted for.

Let them choke on it.

[Elwood P Dowd]

41. They keep getting suckered by the repukes over and over and over.

[Cha]

42. Keep voting for the Fraud, though.. take one for

your cult leader.

[Takket]

43. .