Posted on 04/21/2018 5:58:56 PM PDT by Angels27
President Donald Trump's trade policies are confounding Republicans as rural voters — his strongest supporters — stand to get the short end of the stick just months away from the midterms.
From his dairy farm in southeastern Nebraska, lifelong Republican Ben Steffen believed Donald Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail about ripping up U.S. trade agreements.
So Steffen, who produces milk, beef, soybeans, corn and wheat, wasn't shocked when Trump pulled America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, began renegotiating NAFTA or announced his intent to impose aluminum and steel tariffs on China that have drawn the threat of retaliatory sanctions on American products. But he is alarmed about the potential costs of Trump's trade agenda to his own operation and the state's economy.
"This kind of chaotic volatility in our trading relationships damages the market," Steffen, who runs the farm with his wife, his sister and four full-time employees, said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "The market responds and the prices are erratic and that’s destabilizing for people out here on the bottom end producing feed and food."
Now Steffen, who didn't vote for Trump, is a vocal supporter of Jane Raybould, the Democrat running an improbable campaign against first-term Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb. — and says he's talked to a lot of fellow farmers and Republicans who have "buyer's remorse" about Trump and Fischer.
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Utter nonsense. Note that they found a Never Trump Democrat farm guy who doesn’t like the GOP. Gosh I’m shocked
Fake news.
Now Steffen, who didn't vote for Trump...
Main Stream Media Bullshat.
For every producer whose life-blood is foreign markets, there’s 20 whose life-blood are domestic markets. You cannot make every producer happy. What type of trade agreement(s) truly gives ALL your citizens (not just service sector professionals) the opportunity to make a decent living?
Fake news
This dovetails with an article I read in the New York Times which listed farmers by name who did vote for Trump who were upset with the trade policy. I don’t know if they are going to vote Democrat, but people voting their pocketbook is not shocking. I agree with Trump’s tariffs, though, and think the long term outcome will be better. I understand the concern of the famers, but I hope they give it a chance because their industry is succeeding while the rustbelt has been devastated. I support the subsidies in the short term anyway. I think Trump ideally should have done this his first year in office as that way I think things could have played out without the election timetable.
NBC has become like the pet dog, always leaving a new steaming surprise right there at the front door each morning. Sadly, NBC has the free run of the house in too many homes.
So the article is a lie. He is not a lifelong Republican. He did not vote Republican for President and he's supporting a Democrat for Senator. That makes Mr. Steffen a DEMOCRAT.
BS l am in rural areas all the time and if anything Trump support has gotten stronger. So NBC dredges up some clown who didn’t vote for him who claims he’s talked to a lot people who have remorse which is also BS. If this fool voted for HRC l don’t think farmers are keen on talking to him.
An illegal alien telling us that American citizens don't like Trump enforcing immigration laws with "GOP faces American rebellion over Trump immigration agenda" as the title.
You can tell it is a mid-term election year. NBC is in full chaos sowing mode, to try and get more leftist, socialist, commie Democrats elected. Disgusting bastards need guillotines from orbit.
MSM is in full divide and conquer mode for the mid-terms.
I just did a little research and in 2014 mid terms at this point on the calendar April 20, 2014 the Dems were ahead of the Republicans 41.8 to 39.1 Generic polling! Republicans beat them by 5.6% in Nov..
Maybe they found someone who didn’t vote for bump stock bans, Syrian refugees and trillions in chuck n Nancy spending. Maybe someone believes a wall was p romised.. instead we are digging in Syria, another place we shouldn’t be.
Trump may have pulled off a good deal with Japan. Can't remember the product(s), think maybe ethanol, pork and soybeans.
Trump prefers bilateral trade agreements rather than multiple-participatant trade deals but was talking getting back in the TPP, hopefully on better terms for us.
After people started being able to buy into Obamacare, there was a letter published from a reader who raved about it and told how awful it had been before with medical insurance.
Years ago I was one of those people who couldn't get medical insurance anywhere so joined the IL Farm Bureau and got a policy but was soon dumped. They all dumped me if I was able to get ins so I had to do without for many years. I didn't politicize it though.
"Apr 5, 2018 - If farmers are worried, so are Republican politicians, who depended on small-town America to hand them control of Congress and know how quickly those voters could take it away. Just seven months before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump's faceoff with China over trade has exposed an unexpected ..." Source ilfb.org
So take it for what it's worth.
A life long Republican who did not vote for Trump. And now he is a barometer of Trump’s rural chances? Can news get any more fake and full of lies?
Now Steffen, who didn’t vote for Trump,...
Bwaaaaaahahahaaaaaaaa
The #FakeNews is reaching on this one.
You look at the list of those objecting to the tariffs proposed by China on US farm products and the list consists of the top 25 farm corporation monopolies not individual farmers.
That pretty much makes the case that this is contrived BS. Also the source NBC pretty much is a confirmation of that being the case.
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