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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKim Reynolds of Iowa just said farmers were suffering from China's unfair trade practices
Weren't the Chinese buying tons of produce from our farmers?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
OAITW r.2.0
(24,500 posts)Sorry, Iowa, China retaliated.
Cha
(297,226 posts)dchill
(38,492 posts)Their suicide rate is up. "Incredible numbers!"
moondust
(19,981 posts)When Branstad was Iowa governor I believe he hosted Xi on more than one trip to Iowa to establish trade mainly for soybeans. As a result of that "friendship" Dump made him Ambassador to China which he still is, though I haven't heard anything about him since Dump started the trade war and China looked elsewhere for soybeans. I suspect some Iowa farmers may be concerned that that gigantic soybean market may be gone for good if China finds other suppliers.
Branstad? You there, Terry? You gonna stay with Dump and betray Iowa's farmers?
StClone
(11,683 posts)Iowa's once somewhat progressive values, is now a pretty shitty place outside the college towns. Shitty as in Roundup ready GMO crops everywhere, factory farms, and very little non-farmed green spaces. It's a shadow of a State once a proud solid common sense place. In the 80's Limbaugh blasted fat but entertaining lies on all the big stations out of Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, laying waste to the minds of those unfortunate enough find little else on the dial.
Reality TV and FOX noise flooded into nighttime viewing and swept the last brain cells into the Con job to the satisfaction of the super wealthy elites. Mind control complete, they are left to their soft mushy bodies, not doing physical labor like their fathers, but riding atop air conditioned GPS-guided half-million dollar machines in fields of 1000 acres of wasteland. Their is little redeeming in Iowa outside a few cultural centers. God help them all.
I moved back here after being gone for 10 years and its become North Kansas or East Dakota. Nothing progressive going on and today's announcement of 100M for farmers is a distraction that Trump didn't sign the entire disaster declaration. Funny how everything about Ag has become corporate welfare but the morons "don't" want socialism.
StClone
(11,683 posts)I returned to my beloved State of Iowa awhile back and was accosted by my younger brother about my liberal ways (to them anyways). I came to realize all my family was in a black hole of know-nothingism-Limbaugh-FOX hell. Racist, bigoted, uneducated (but smart in a way), I have RARELY spoken to any of them in decade. We used to be a loving close family. Thanks CONS.
Bettie
(16,109 posts)but Kim Reaper loves her some Trump and will do or say anything she thinks he wants to hear.
crickets
(25,980 posts)Apparently trump has not put any effort into relief for individual citizens and farmers.
Iowa Natural Disaster Explained by TikToker NowThis
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017602143
Look what he did to Iowa
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213955518#post4
Federal relief for Iowa derecho damage leaves out aid for homeowners, farmers
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213957522