Post by 2old on Apr 7, 2018 18:52:57 GMT -5
Many jobs may come back to the United States... and those jobs be filled by robotics. In the meantime, inflation soars to high single digits and people are no longer to make house payments, put food on the table, etc. Stock markets tank. Farmers go broke and we can no longer afford a box of corn flakes.
Kansas is an extremely red state. Our agricultural community is hard right and huge supporters of Trump... until this past few days. Suddenly, the export market for corn and soybeans and wheat is gone. One farmer appeared on local news saying he was barely breaking even before the tariffs. Says he may be headed to the bank to turn in keys and titles and walk away from a farming operation that has been in his family for years... dead broke. The echoing praise for Trump by the ag community has become silent. That silence could well turn into a groundswell of discontent that would tank Republican hopes in this red state for decades. They are conservatives who bit their tongues about multiple divorces, sexual escapades, etc. They won't bit their tongues if they begin losing their farms.
Now it looks like many young farmers who serve in the National Guard may be leaded to the border, thanks to Trump. Crop prices are tanking and they suddenly are not home to harvest what is there.
The United States economy had recovered well from the Bush caused recession. We are sitting at less than 5% unemployment. Yet, we will bankrupt our citizens and our communities just so Trump can tell his base his manhood is bigger than Xi's.
Kansas is an extremely red state. Our agricultural community is hard right and huge supporters of Trump... until this past few days. Suddenly, the export market for corn and soybeans and wheat is gone. One farmer appeared on local news saying he was barely breaking even before the tariffs. Says he may be headed to the bank to turn in keys and titles and walk away from a farming operation that has been in his family for years... dead broke. The echoing praise for Trump by the ag community has become silent. That silence could well turn into a groundswell of discontent that would tank Republican hopes in this red state for decades. They are conservatives who bit their tongues about multiple divorces, sexual escapades, etc. They won't bit their tongues if they begin losing their farms.
Now it looks like many young farmers who serve in the National Guard may be leaded to the border, thanks to Trump. Crop prices are tanking and they suddenly are not home to harvest what is there.
The United States economy had recovered well from the Bush caused recession. We are sitting at less than 5% unemployment. Yet, we will bankrupt our citizens and our communities just so Trump can tell his base his manhood is bigger than Xi's.
