Posted on 03/13/2025 7:54:39 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said she was "grateful" to speak with President Donald Trump on Thursday for a "productive meeting" that included discussions about jobs and tariffs.
Since taking office for his second administration, Trump has pursued an arguably chaotic economic policy, which is reflected by the steep drop in the stock market in recent weeks: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was $44,873 at the start of February, had fallen to $40,813 by the close of business on Thursday.
Thursday's drop marked a 10 percent drop over the previous month, which brought the market into a "correction," the term Wall Street uses to indicate pessimistic investor sentiment. Analysts have highlighted the president's trade war and flip-flopping tariff policy as the main factors in the steep decline.
This includes Trump's threat earlier this week to double tariffs on Canada's steel and aluminum imports to 50 percent, but he ultimately backed down and maintained his originally planned 25 percent tariff.
"I had a productive meeting at the White House today with President Trump where we discussed bringing good paying jobs to Michigan," Whitmer said on X, formerly Twitter.
"We also discussed tariffs, the importance of keeping our great lakes clean and safe, and additional defense investments in the state," Whitmer said. "I'm grateful for his time today and I'll always work as hard as I can with anyone for the state of Michigan and its people."
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That is not what she said last time.
Or closure of lawn and garden stores during covid
She’s still a ‘Rat Witch.
There’s no question both political parties are responsible. The law was originally passed in 2009 by Michigan’s legislature, which was split at the time between Democrats and Republicans, and signed by Democratic Gov. Jennifer "The Bimbo Of Energy" Granholm. Republicans in particular should have known better, but they caved to pressure from the Humane Society, which threatened to organize a ballot initiative in support of even stricter laws on egg farmers if lawmakers didn’t do as demanded.
The bill’s implementation was then delayed by state Republicans in 2019 in order to give retailers and egg producers some more time to adjust to the law’s requirements. They could (and should) have pushed for a total repeal, though admittedly the odds of Gov. Gretchen "Big Retch" Whitmer signing the measure was zero to none.
At the very least, Republicans could have avoided making the law worse. Alas.
Whereas the 2009 law only ordered egg producers to phase out battery cages and invest in larger cages for hens, the 2019 update that is now in effect bans cages altogether and even goes so far as to prohibit the sale of eggs from all producers outside of Michigan that still cage their hens. In other words, Michigan’s lawmakers, including those who claim to care about affordability and the free market, gutted consumer choice completely—again at the behest of special interest groups, like the Humane Society.
“Grateful”? She must have left her Atty. General
aka ‘Nasty’ Dana Nessel, at the airport lounge.
A local egg producer in West MI(780M eggs per annum) said the new law has tripled his costs.
$10.86 a dozen yesterday at my local spartan. : (
Garbage article. Too many un-facts to begin to address.
“She must have left her Atty. General
aka ‘Nasty’ Dana Nessel, at the airport lounge.”
tHE REST OF THE MAIN COVEN.
Hate to break it to you, but I get a 5 gal bucket of fresh eggs a day times 7, nice big White or Brown eggs and sell all I or donate to the local Food Pantry for the needy.
See #11....
Mich. is infested....
As long you have “Bodacious tatas” everything is OK.
Andy Beshear is probably the favorite now.
Josh Shapiro should be in the running but his party is now antisemitic.
Gonna plant the shells and grow me a chicken(Stalag 17 ref.).
Holy crap! I’m getting 5 dozen for $22 in Costco Fairbanks.
Well, some of them are.......
Hey, Evil Woman....ELO
And what do you burn, apart from witches?
More witches!
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