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Title: Farmers Hit Back as USDA Chief Mocks Those Harmed by Trade War as “Whiners”
Source: From The Trenches/Common Dreams
URL Source: https://fromthetrenchesworldreport. ... by-trade-war-as-whiners/252443
Published: Aug 14, 2019
Author: Jake Johnson
Post Date: 2019-08-15 06:48:44 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 410
Comments: 1

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

Farmers facing record bankruptcies and collapsing incomes due to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China were not amused by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s joke about their economic pain during an event in Minnesota last week.

“I had a farmer tell me this in Pennsylvania,” Perdue told an audience of thousands of farmers gathered in a barn near Morgan, Minnesota. “What do you call two farmers in a basement? A whine cellar.” 

Some laughed at the agriculture secretary’s joke, but other farmers booed and denounced Perdue’s wisecrack as callous and tone-deaf mockery of the real hardship caused by the Trump administration’s trade policies.

“It was definitely not an appropriate thing to say,” Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, told HuffPost on Monday. “It was very insensitive. It took everyone by surprise. He doesn’t understand what farmers are dealing with, and he’s the head of the Department of Agriculture. He’s supposed to be working for farmers.”

Perdue’s characterization of struggling farmers as “whiners” came after the Trump administration announced it will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion of Chinese goods starting Sept. 1, a significant escalation in the ongoing trade war between the two global powers.

China quickly retaliated by canceling all purchases of U.S. agricultural products, a move American Farm Bureau Federation president Zippy Duvall called “a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by.”

With farmers suffering from his trade policies, Trump has attempted to tamp down backlash with targeted aid packages—but, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), most of the assistance has gone to wealthy farmers.

Meanwhile, as HuffPost reported on Monday, “Net farm income in America has plunged by nearly half over the last five years from $123.4 billion in 2013 to $63 billion last year. It plummeted by 16 percent last year alone.”

Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union, said last week that Trump’s “strategy of constant escalation and antagonism” toward China has “made things worse.”

“It’s really, really getting bad out here,” added Bob Kuylen, a North Dakota farmer, in an interview with CNBC. “Trump is ruining our markets.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/13/farmers-hit-back-usda-chief-sonny-perdue-mocks-those-harmed-trump-trade-war-whiners

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

The Only people harmed by tariffs are globalist who want to destroy the middle class.

Trump is fixing unfair trade and making it fair trade.

This is where I find libertarianism jumping the shark. That and open borders.

"Socialism corrupts and Democratic Socialism corrupts Absolutely"!

Justified  posted on  2019-08-15   18:53:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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