Posted on 02/18/2020 3:55:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Apparently, YOU are a UNION mole here at FR.
I started working at age 16 & am still doing client work at age 80. The 5 DIFFERENT unions I was forced to join did nothing extra for me. One of them actually lied bout a strike within 3 hours of the members voting NOT to strike. Double crossing jerks at every turn.
Those high numbers of persons who are working in the USA DO NOT NEED a UNION or a Democrat to tell them how to do their jobs.
You degrade hard working people whose lives would NOT be one whit better if they were in a UNION.
How many persons have provided you services during your life who were NOT union? I would bet plenty-—and far more than union workers.
Your UNION addiction is a poor substitute for taking care of your own life & your own abilities.
I got that point exactly, and the author did a good job of laying out the struggles that farmers face but a not so great job of explaining how those struggles were caused or exacerbated by NAFTA which she doesn’t even mention. A great example of an article that works for people who already know the story.
I’m not saying this is a bad article, just that with a bit more work and more quotes from the farmers abut Trump directly, it could have been great.
I agree with Zito. Many people support Trump in spite of his personality, not because of it.
Yes. The quote from the farmer directly addresses the issue that AFTER they decided to support Trump, people treated them like they are stupid when in fact they are quite smart.
But the article purports to explain why they supported Trump in the first place, which none of the quotes from the farmers addresses.
... in several generations. Bears repeating.
I wasn’t enamored with Trump’s style at first. I liked the fact that he hit back but found him too crude at times. I still think so sometimes but a lot more rarely now and I don’t mind nearly as much. That is because he has been great on policy, he has been great on results and because after having seen the depths to which his enemies in the deep state and MSM and Democrat Party will sink to get Trump at all costs - laws, democratic norms and common decency be damned - I am vastly more disgusted by them than I am by anything Trump says.
I love the fact that Trump hits BACK!
He’s not like the Republican Party establishment types who just roll over and take it when the Democrats/MSM lie about him and constantly go into the gutter. He pays them back in their own coin and THEY CAN’T STAND IT.
Its so gratifying to watch them melt down and have hissy fits when he punches them in the mouth right back. This is what we always knew about them - they love to dish it out but absolutely can not take it.
He you old fart, I have nothing to do with unions. It isn’t 1960 any more. Unions account for 7% of labor. THE ISSUES GLOBALISM AND OFFSHORING APPLY TO ALL LABOR IN THE USA.
Glad we don’t get the majority of our vegetables and dairy from China...it is our best interest to promote US farming if people want to eat...imho
PS...Canada lumber really good? It takes YEARS to grow it cause it’s COLD up there...S. America lumber grows REALLY fast.
I hope you are willing to protect manufacturing and blue color workers with the same zeal.
Not blinded. I know Cocaine Mitch gives Trump grief. But I’ll accept that for the insane rate at which the Turtle is slamming Trump’s Federalist Society judges through. It just may stave off the progressive horde for a generation.
And many of us love his personality.
It’s nice to have a president WITH a personality.
Sheesh...of course...Are you NOT watching what President Trump is doing??? Re:manufacturing
ps..
But I can’t eat a phone or car
My opinion is that many people are hesitant to say they like him, afraid of being ridiculed or belittled or not held in high esteem by their Liberal friends.
And you might get a punch in the nose if you admit liking him.
Yeah, sure, the "sophisticated" ones are still demanding a federal minimum wage and pissing and moaning that they can't get a job ten years after the crash.
Those who can't find work in this economy are utter failures - should be learning new skills instead of bubbling constantly like a dripping, yeasty front hole about how life is so unfaaaair.
Hadn't ever been a fan of Trump, never watched The Apprentice. Listened to him and when he came down the escalator, I thought, "Wow" but figured he was just running as an icebreaker for more conservatism.
When Macy's killed his clothing line I thought he'd cave. When he punched back, I got in his corner full time and have been there ever since, including monthly contributions,
Ha...by giving to President Trump I’m on a local Socialists group published “list”...in Oregon...
He seems to be whining a lot lately. It’s not a good look.
Did he think being President would be an easy job?
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