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Mid-Continent Nail operations manager Chris Pratt
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/want-fix-trump-voters-sorry-now-tariffs-killing-missouri-nail-factory/
During an interview with MSNBC, Mid-Continent Nail operations manager Chris Pratt revealed that he has already laid off 60 workers from his plant and he warned that more jobs were at risk due to Trumps trade wars.
We should be thriving, he said. We were doing pretty good. But now, its like he flipped the light switch off, and its all because of tariffs.
Jimmie Coffer, a machine operator at the plant, told MSNBC that he voted for Trump in 2016 because he wanted to see change in Washington. Now, however, he worries that Trumps trade wars will cost him his job.
I understand why hes doing it, he said. Its hurting us. Its hurting us real bad here.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)..,
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)1950's neo-economics on same level as the neoconservatives who thought the answer was simple for middle east problems, just force democracy on the countries by war or whatever.
we know how that worked out, same with trade wars
US and the american people get fucked
JHan
(10,173 posts)You voted for change and you got it - except we're all paying the price and We're now fucked.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)in the end
SHRED
(28,136 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Who knew? Most of us knew.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)"I understand why he is doing it." WTF do you understand, idiot?!
Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)But you all wanted a business man, well you got one and now you're not happy. Well we told you he's a failed business man and you didn't listen.
JDC
(10,127 posts)Coal cleaners.
Polishing those coal brickettes to clean them up.
jpljr77
(1,004 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)If you did, you'd be writing your doctoral thesis instead of learning how to fill out welfare forms.
There is one reason and one reason only that I have no sympathy for these people and their impending (or present) economic hardship. That reason is that, given everything they now, they would STILL vote for Trump over Hillary Clinton. I say thus, that they should get what they voted for.
hatrack
(59,586 posts)hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)deminks
(11,014 posts)I guess to hell with the hundreds of other businesses going through the same thing, and the thousands of people that will have to make choices once again between food and rent. That's what happens when you watch fucks news, you don't see the big picture.
He wanted change, I guess he got it.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)kairos12
(12,861 posts)SamKnause
(13,103 posts)You voted for your economic destruction.
Enjoy it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Where is my real tiny violin? Oh, here it is, in the crease of my elbow!
Initech
(100,075 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)especially NYC, any random number. We knew what he was, you didn't listen. Unemployment last I believe 6 months now. Better be quick before Trump EO's it down to 3 months.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)And what forward thinking company would locate a plant among those knuckledragging turds?
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)They should have called when Trump was running for the republican candidate. When it mattered, but nope.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Your success wasn't overwhelming, in your eyes, according to the words you were being told, on television, on the radio, in church, among friends, at the family table. You know, the right wing echo chamber. After the Bush debacle, you should have known better. But the President was a Democrat, and a black man at that.
"Sure, our business is booming, but growth is TOO SLOW". How many times did you pitifully whine those words? I guess Obama didn't know what he was doing, but you did, right?
Eat. Shit. And. Die. Mothahfucker.
You're the imbecile that foisted this Stephen King Clown President on us. You and your faux indignation. You and your outrage at things you can't even explain, like Hillary's emails, her server, Benghazi. Well, now you can't explain Trump, but you pretend you can. At least you're consistent in the areas of stupidity and cluelessness.
Save those last nails for your own coffin, sir. You dug this grave. Now seal yourself in it, and shut the fuck up.
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)from pushing those buttons to call him directly and laugh out loud and hang up.
You know he begged Claire McCaskill to help him and she is trying; that's why she is a Senator and I'm not.
Great last line. May I use it in my call?
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)I wish it could be told to every well-established fool who voted for Trump, looking for change.
You got your change, mister. Now suffocate in it.
we can do it
(12,184 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Fortunately they know they can count on the safety net that Barack managed to patch up and keep under them.
we can do it
(12,184 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)and head to Californy . . .
we can do it
(12,184 posts)Blues Heron
(5,932 posts)textbook moran
tanyev
(42,557 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I doubt they even know, otherwise they would have elaborated.
I'm to the point with this nail factory that they can't fail fast enough for me.
ooky
(8,922 posts)They were ready made suckers for the ridiculous Fox News stories about Hillary Clinton and were sold a bill of goods that they needed "change" that they really didn't need at all. They already had jobs and health care through their jobs, so how did they celebrate this good fortune? They complained that "they didn't want to pay for someone else's health care". Problem is, when they stepped on to the stage and joined the chants to lock up an innocent person they stepped on to a very slippery slope for themselves, given that the only thing they know how to do is make nails. They don't understand "why he is doing it". They don't understand shit. They didn't understand when Trump was reciting to them the parable of the snake, who the snake really was that he was referring to, and that they were about to get eaten. I don't have any feeling for them. I didn't then and I don't now, they are gettng what they deserve. Let them delight in the separation migrant children from their mothers at the border, without a their paycheck.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)I hope Trump fixes you real good, as only he can.
NatBurner
(2,640 posts)dipshit
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thoughts and prayers GOP rubes.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)provide a carve out. Just for them. They claim to understand the 'why' of the policy (which in reality makes no sense). But they don't want to be hurt by the policy, as in lose their jobs because the demand for an overtaxed product lis losing its market share to . . . Mexico, China and South Korea. Bitter irony there.
Hello? The Trumpster is just not in to you, guys. Never was, never will be.
Trumpster farmers and ranchers hurt by the tariffs have pretty much expressed the same thing.
Guess they didn't get the memo: They're suppose to suck it up, all for Trumpster love and self-destructive loyalty.
Good luck with that!
My suggestion? Come back to the light, help us fight this moron and his nonsense economic plans. We'll all be better off for the effort.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Film at 11.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)You know, the if only the parents would pay the kids wouldn't be singled out and shamed at school.
I wonder how many of them enjoy talking about "welfare queens"?
I wonder how many of them like to brag - albeit always with bitterness - that - No one gave me anything. I earned it all myself?
I wonder how many of them have said that if people want to eat then they should work instead of getting a "handout"?
I wonder how many of them have said they are tired of paying for the lazy people?
I wonder how many of them have said they are tired of immigrants taking their jobs?
I wonder if they can make the connection between their ignorance and prejudices causing them to vote against their own needs and interests?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Great post there, Solly Mack!
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)as a special exemption and a handout. They'd think they deserved it above others. They would stop complaining, stop asking questions, praise Trump - and then tell other people in the exact same straits to suck it up and shut up about it.
They won't learn from this. Not even if they all lose their jobs. It will somehow be the fault of others.
oasis
(49,385 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Assuming he's on the ballot.
pamdb
(1,332 posts)You reap what you sow. I have no sympathy.
Aristus
(66,358 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)(snark)
BlueDog22
(366 posts)The fact that his policies are hurting his own voters the worst, is this karma?
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I hate that my state is losing jobs due to Trump's ego but Missouri is red, and is paying for its redness. Wonder what the one guy thought the change would be? Guessing it meant Brown people "put in their place." uuugh.