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To: Miami Rebel
We've had tariffs forever...It's FAIR trade that China is not keen about.

Maybe check with how the farmers feel and not how YOU feel.

2 posted on 05/17/2026 10:13:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

They aint feeling real good now. And i know lots of farmers. Both in the Dairy Industry as well as tge grain.

Last time a president instituted tarrifs like Trump did was Benjamin Harrison. The result was a collapse of the farm community and extreme individual hardship at the common level.

Grover Cleveland got blamed for the worst depression other than the great depression which resulted in Clevelands party failed to see any majority till about 1910.

Now that it is late, Trump is trying to put lipstick on a pig. Its still a pig.

Kansas wheat production is going to be down about 38% this year.
Corn production will be down because of the added cost of fuel and fertilizer caused by Trumps war in the mid east on behalf of Israel. There wont be 200 bushel corn this year on many farms.

Produce has, and will suffer because of lack of irrigation in the southwest. Quality is already down.
Another cause of produce problems is the wild eyed maniacal raids on produce farms by ICE chasing off labor.

Result is...people will start to go hungry. And when that happens, it wont be real safe in areas in this country.

This next year will be amusing to watch.


3 posted on 05/17/2026 10:36:25 AM PDT by crz
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