Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Working Class Watch - Day 533

Conventional wisdom has it that the working class (okay --- working class whites, specifically) were the key demographic supporting Trump in 2016.  How's that working out for them?
Tariffs levied by America's trading partners, such as China, kick in on Friday as retaliation for Trump's heavy taxation of their imports. Farmers in the heartland say that a drawn-out trade war could lead to more farms going bankrupt or selling out.
"The banks are not going to keep writing checks to save your farm," Matt Thiede, chief operating officer of Heeren brothers, a produce packing company in Comstock Park, Michigan, told NBC News. "For some family farms, one season could be the death of them."
Yes, those 'farmers in the heartland' are getting what they voted for.  I might feel sorry for them if their votes weren't flushing the rest of the country down the toilet with them.

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