Farmers and Trump and Tariffs.....

[riversedge]

Being brought up on a farm and have farmers in my family, I generally have empathy for them and their problems. But not with this issue. This is on Trump all the way.




Farmers fear impacts of trade war, but hold back from blaming Trump


http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jul/15/farmers-fear-trade-war-will-most-hurt-but-theyre-n/

Sun., July 15, 2018, 4 a.m.




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COLFAX – Cody Miller, 21, has been riding in combines since he was 4 months old.

He knows every belt and sprocket of the 1981 Allis-Chalmers MH-2 combine that his dad recently purchased for $1,300. The odd new part added here, with an axle off one of the three “parts” combines there, and the Millers cobble together a serviceable wheat-harvesting machine.

But they have no idea how a brewing trade war prompted by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum from China, Mexico, Canada and European allies will affect their family farm.

“It scares the crap out of me that we won’t be able to do this,” Lance Miller said. “The grain prices are holding us all hostage.”...........................




..................The tariffs don’t appear to have undermined support for Trump thus far based on results of a recent Washington Post-Schar School poll. In the 15 states that have the highest share of jobs at risk from a trade war with China, Trump’s approval rating was 57 percent in late June and early July – higher than the support won in those states in the 2016 election, according to the Washington Post................................................





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Cody Miller, 21, and his father, Lance Miller, 47, lean up against their 1981 Allis-Chalmers MH-2 combine that the Millers recently picked up for $1,300. The Millers fix up old combines, including three given to them for free, to keep their small wheat farm alive near Colfax. And that's before a brewing trade war that could hit Washington harder than any other state, according the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "The grain prices are holding us all hostage," Lance Miller said. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

[Soxfan58]

1. They hate

Gays, hispanic, blacks, and Democrats more than they love their farms.

[Squinch]

2. And have staked so much of their identity on their hidden superiority to the rest of us they can't

ever admit, especially not to themselves, that they were wrong about whiny donnie.

[Soxfan58]

3. True!

[Glorfindel]

4. To quote that great sage and eminent waxwork figure, Melanoma Trump:

"I really don't care, do U?"