Trump Tapping $12B to Help Farmers Affected by Tariffs

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The government announced a $12 billion plan Tuesday to assist farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump's trade disputes with China and other trading partners.
The plan focuses on Midwest soybean producers and others targeted by retaliatory measures.
The Agriculture Department said the proposal would include direct assistance for farmers, purchases of excess crops and trade promotion activities aimed at building new export markets. Officials said the plan would not require congressional approval and would come through the Commodity Credit Corporation, a wing of the department that addresses agricultural prices.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday the Trump administration's plan to provide $12 billion in aid to American farmers who have been hurt by tariffs proved "we're not going to back down" against retaliation by China.
"The Chinese are convinced that they can cause enough pain to the American farmer that the Trump administration will blink," Gingrich, the former Georgia Republican congressman who was speaker from 1995 to 1999, told Neil Cavuto on Fox News.

"Frankly, if you look at the total behavior of the Chinese since 1991, it is an absurdity to allow it to continue — but when you start to change it, they're going to fight."

[Reck]

:lol

[ducks]

Patience trump will win

[dabom]

More welfare? :lmao

[lefty]

B..but... No handouts, free market!


Trump is a commie :lol

[KenMcCoy]

I see a Trump/Ocasio-Cortez ticket in 2020!

[dabom]

I see a Trump/Ocasio-Cortez ticket in 2020!

:lol

[hater]

Making Welfare Nation Great Again Nigas

Easy Peezy

[hater]

I see a Trump/Ocasio-Cortez ticket in 2020!

:lol

[sickdsm]

I see a Trump/Ocasio-Cortez ticket in 2020!

Hahahaha

[Pavlov]

Are the farmers getting drug tested?

[ElNono]

welfare queens! smh

[AaronY]

Its only welfare when the wrong people are getting it

[spurraider21]

Trump creates hardship on farmers. Trump uses taxpayer money to give welfare to farmers

Trump making the farmers dependent on government handouts so he can win their votes

[hater]

Trump creates hardship on farmers. Trump uses taxpayer money to give welfare to farmers

Trump making the farmers dependent on government handouts so he can win their votes

You really have a future in political analysis there Einstein :lol

[Chris]

Trump creates hardship on farmers. Trump uses taxpayer money to give welfare to farmers

Trump making the farmers dependent on government handouts so he can win their votes

It's only Hegelian Dialectic when Trump does it :cry

[Chris]

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[spurraider21]

It's only Hegelian Dialectic when Trump does it :cry
its only hegelian dialectic when anybody else does it :cry

[Education4Libs]

It's only Hegelian Dialectic when Trump does it :cry
Keep owning that lib. Own him long and own him hard. I love the way you don’t actually know anything but parrot things you heard from other people. I do it too!




p.s. let’s have butt sex a celebratory beer tonight.

[Chris]

E4L getting ornery (triggered) :lol

[Education4Libs]

E4L getting ornery (triggered) :lol
Maybe tonight you can give me a handjob hand doing a job I got to get own twitter and own libs. Some guy names Vlad is paying me!

[spurraider21]

Keep owning that lib. Own him long and own him hard. I love the way you don’t actually know anything but parrot things you heard from other people. I do it too!




p.s. let’s have butt sex a celebratory beer tonight.
yeah that too

:lol hegelian dialectic

[Chris]

2 for 1 today. Easy pickins'.

[Education4Libs]

2 for 1 today. Easy pickins'.
I like how our last post-sex pillow talk hetero male locker room chat we discussed how easy it is to just act like we were trolling all along whenever our stupidity is exposed online. You really are my soul mate hetero bff.

[Blake]

Are the farmers getting drug tested?

:lol

[Reck]

2 for 1 today. Easy pickins'.

Why are you ignoring your boy? He even registered for you. :cry

You're more of a flamethrower kind of fellow, eh?

[Blake]

Trump creates hardship on farmers. Trump uses taxpayer money to give welfare to farmers

Trump making the farmers dependent on government handouts so he can win their votes

4D chess

[Education4Libs]

Why are you ignoring your boy? He even registered for you. :cry

You're more of a flamethrower kind of fellow, eh?

Fuck you, cuck! You cucky cuck cuckmeister! Just go get cucked some more ya cuck!


.......oh shit are you the one they told me to call a cuck incessantly? Or are you another one? Dammit I really fucked this one up! Someone please tell me what to think and say right now!
Chris please don’t be mad :cry

[hater]

4D chess

:lmao

[BD24]

Socialism and handouts good now :lol

disclaimer: as long as the money isn't going to minorities

[Chris]

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President Donald Trump reached an agreement Wednesday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker aimed at averting a transatlantic trade war, easing tensions stoked by Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on car imports.
The two sides agreed to expand European imports of U.S. liquified natural gas and soybeans and lower industrial tariffs on both sides, Trump said. The U.S. and European Union will “hold off on other tariffs” while negotiations proceed, Juncker said.

“We had a big day, very big,” Trump said at a joint statement with Juncker at the White House Wednesday. He hailed “a new phase” of trade relations.
The two leaders also said they would work toward “zero” tariffs on industrial goods, according to Trump. He added that they would try to “resolve” steel and aluminum tariffs he imposed earlier this year and retaliatory duties the EU levied in response.

[hater]

Btw the 12 billion doesnt even cover the farmer losses to date :lol

Wait till Ttump announces another 20 billion taken from Food Stamp to our agrobusiness :lol

[boutons_deux]

Socialism and handouts good now :lol

disclaimer: as long as the money isn't going to minorities

safety net for poor, old, disabled people to be cut to pay the farmers, and of course the oligarchy's tax scam.

[Blake]

Btw the 12 billion doesnt even cover the farmer losses to date :lol

Wait till Ttump announces another 20 billion taken from Food Stamp to our agrobusiness :lol

You mean the Harvest Boxes?

[boutons_deux]

Trump Has No Idea What His Tariffs Have Unleashed for Farmers

His trade war will hurt business at a time when the rural population is aging, and it will probably hollow out farm communities.

Harvest puts coin into the hands of farmers, and they and their communities — indeed all of America — profit. Not this year.

For Iowans, it’s because 33 percent of our economy is tied, directly or indirectly, to agriculture,

and Mr. Trump recklessly opened trade wars that will hit “Trump country” — rural America — hardest and that have already brought an avalanche of losses. Indeed, the impact of his tariffs will probably be felt by family farms and the area for generations.

The cost of being shut out of overseas markets (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-soybean-exports-surged-last-quarter-1530906354) for soybeans, beef, pork, chicken and more will be in the billions.

Once those markets are gone, they will be difficult to recover.

Commodity prices continue to drop, and good weather suggests an excellent crop is in the making, which will drive prices further down.

But the fallout will not just be tallied in statistics. In farm country, U.S.A., the Trump tariffs have poured gas on what has been a slow-burning conflagration.

Rural America is about to undergo a major demographic shift. President Trump didn’t start it, but he has accelerated a crisis that might have taken a generation or two to play out. Now it might take only a few years.

Rural America is going to be hollowed out very quickly. Farms will become consolidated, and towns that are already in trouble will certainly die.

Iowa’s farmers are aging, and younger farmers aren’t replacing them proportionately.

Sixty percent of Iowa farmland is owned by (https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/isu-survey-iowas-farmland-owners-continue-age-more-third-75-or-older) people 65 years or older, and

35 percent of farmland is owned by people 75 or older.

2012 census shows (https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Highlights/Farm_Demographics/#average_age) the average age of the American farmer was 58.3 years. This isn’t because young people in rural America don’t want to farm; it’s because,

if it isn’t already the family business, the costs are much too high to allow many of them to get into it.

a hog operation I drive by every day is folding. The confinements are being dismantled, and anything portable can be found on Craigslist.

A friend close to the family told me pork prices have been down for years, and with the tariffs it’s just not worth it anymore.

Another casualty: our community banks.

When our community banks are gone, one of the major economic engines of our small towns will be gone.

( but what about a few Wells Fargo branches! :lol)

populations won’t be enough to support rural hospitals and clinics, and they, too, will be gone. Rural hospitals are one of the major employers in the community.

Some of the farmers I speak with are unwavering in support of the president;

they’d vote Republican even if Mr. Trump personally slapped the heck out of the preacher at the church potluck.

the Trump payments are made to farmers, the larger operations will be the ones that gobble them up.

Mr. Perdue, and likely President Trump, know the $12 billion won’t make a difference, even in the short term.

Farmers and others in the industry know the offer is meaningless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/trump-tariffs-trade-war-rural-america.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/trump-tariffs-trade-war-rural-america.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article)