Farm groups go on anti-tariff blitz after Trump offers trade aid

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By ADAM BEHSUDI 07/26/2018 05:57 AM EDT

Farm groups are going on the offensive with a multimillion-dollar advertising and advocacy campaign against President Donald Trump’s tariffs just days after the administration rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers harmed by a mounting trade war.

The launch of the campaign also comes as Trump is due to be in Iowa on Thursday, where he is likely to reassure farmers growing increasingly anxious over trade retaliation that has targeted soybeans, pork and other major farm commodities.

“Agriculture is a giant and it takes a while to wake it up, but when it wakes up you better watch out,” said Brian Kuehl, executive director of Farmers for Free Trade, which is organizing the campaign.

The nonprofit group, which is backed by the American Farm Bureau Federation and major commodity groups like the National Pork Producers Council, is investing $2.5 million in the four-month campaign aimed at showcasing how the tariffs are causing pain among U.S. farmers and manufacturers because of Trump’s trade policies.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/26/farm-groups-anti-tariff-blitz-trade-aid-711958

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "it takes a while to wake it up, but when it wakes up you better watch out"

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. This does not bode well for Republicans....

Running for Office. How do they explain being robbed $500 and being thrown $10 for a can ride home?

Farmers are tax payers. They are not going to be taxed further for their own bailout.

[Rebl2]

3. Should have

come out sooner with this. Think they were waiting for him to say he was ‘just joking’ like he does sometimes.

[SharonClark]

4. Then, why is ever thing I see on teevee

about how farmers are still supporting their beloved president?

The media needs to quit their obsession with Trump-supporting 'farmers'. I've googled a couple of them and they are rabid Trump supporters.

[olegramps]

5. You are absolutely right. They chose him. They crawled into bed with him, now enjoy the screwing.

The farmers are some of the biggest hypocrites ever born. They take a phony pride in being rugged individualists and have had their hand in Uncle Sam's pocket for so many generations, its now an in bred trait handed down to generations. They only thing independent about them is their ability to pose as church god-fearing patriots, you know those "real Mercans" while robbing their fellow citizens blind.

[workinclasszero]

6. 2016 US Presidential Election Map

Looks like buyers remorse to me.

I guess the suckers have woken up to the fact that a rich New York con man sold them a bill of goods!

[kimbutgar]

7. They'll stick and vote for him in November

And I bet those 12 billion dollar socialism will go to the big corporate Ag farmers not the family farms.

Suckers...lived on a farm in Michigan for 2 months I met some of the dumbest people I have ever met. Came back to my home I SF and vowed I was going to college and get a degree because I did not want to be that dumb.

[Wuddles440]

8. What about a bailout...

for consumers forced to pay increasingly higher prices due to his inane tariffs?