Posted on 07/24/2018 12:15:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) tells @burgessev and me outside GOP lunch that $12 billion in trade assistance to farmers from Trump administration "this is becoming more and more like a Soviet-type of economy here" with "commissars" sprinkling around benefits.
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Trump carried Johnson’s ass over the finish line in 2016 but never misses an opportunity to bash him anyway.
How much money is senator schlong (oops, sorry johnson) personally losing because of trump?
me either.
Farm exports have been one of the few exceptions to trade problems.
Those farms will probably take a hit. At least the president is trying to minimize the downside. Where will that money come from? Tariffs...
Overall, we’re going to wind up with a much more level playing field with our trading partners.
What’s more, they know it and are squealing like stuck pigs over it.
That means he’s good for 6 years. 2022 will be the sell by date. Whose job is it to take him out?
Easy response - Bolton doesn’t want to help the farmers just the 1% oligarchy that funds his campaigns.
Trump is a Putin Puppet and everything he does is Evil , OK we got it ,NOW SHUT UP
@burgessev=
Burgess Everett
@burgessev
POLITICO congressional reporter.
You beat me to it. I’m not a fan of subsidies, but Johnson is speaking from the perspective of a Congress that hasn’t produced a true budget in 10(?) years. If that’s not an invitation to cronyism, I don’t know what is.
The farmers’ caps have round bills from looking
in the mailbox for their government checks. Been
going on for years—sometimes they were paid
for not growing crops.
No one ever paid me for not repairing
aie conditioners.
The more affluent people I know will not, repeat not, believe this. The response is consistently,, ‘Trump is out of his depth. He thinks every negotiation is like selling a casino package to some Hong Kong shady operators. He knows next to nothing about the ‘more sophisticated and intricate world of international finance and trade. He is going to damage the US badly, watch and see.” I hear this over and over again. Look at the latest ‘Bloomberg Business Week ‘ for a long editorial howl on how Trump will permanently damage the US economy. I know BBW is an anti-Trump megaphone but it is one of the few publications these people sort of read and the take away is ‘Trump is destroying the US trade regime’. The problem with crescendo is it becomes self fulfilling.
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I’ve been pretty disappointed in Johnson, and in full transparency he wasn’t my choice (Tea Partier Mark Newman was).
Johnson could be coming at this as a business owner. He owns a plastics manufacturing company and perhaps he sees the threat of tarriffs differently. Regardless, he’s always been a never-Trumper and has taken very soft positions in support of the US and frankly any conservative positions.
Well said!
We need a “LIKE” button for posts like this.
Ron Johnson has been never trump from the beginning
Other US consumers who ultimately pay the tariffs.
Redistribution, pure and simple.
I would tell the Senator to Lighten Up, Francis.
This is all the ART of the DEAL. Trump’s tariffs are a short-term MEANS to an END. He is using them as leverage to cut BETTER DEALS, and we will all be better off for it in the end.
This aid is just a short-term move to ease the pain of his tactics.
I guess we’ll have to choose.
Decide to be a worry wart and ding Trump for everything.
Decide to support him and his policies for the improvement of our nation.
Yep, I’ll pay $10 more for something, and my neighbors will have a job for the first time in over a decade.
Oh the humanities...
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