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edbermac

(16,489 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:41 PM Aug 2025

SC Republican: High prices are 'for the good of the country'

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) acknowledged that the public is seeing higher prices as a result of tariffs imposed by President Trump, but he argued the trade overhaul is “for the good of the country.”

“I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices. Our family’s in the construction business, and we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries. Yes, it’s higher. Steel prices are up, but it’s for the good of the country,” Norman said Saturday on Fox News when asked to explain the network’s July poll showing that 55 percent of Americans disapproved of the president’s handling of the economy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/south-carolina-republican-high-prices-031018841.html

Man, you just put a whole shoe store in your mouth.

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Norrrm

(5,602 posts)
1. Is your family construction business absorbing the tariff costs like Trump wanted others to do?
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:41 PM
Aug 2025

louis-t

(24,654 posts)
2. Around here, maga claim that everything will be back to normal
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:01 PM
Aug 2025

in a year. I ask "What was the point?" The reply was "jobs". I say "We have 4% unemployment. It will never get better than that."

KentuckyWoman

(7,417 posts)
5. "Jobs"
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:14 AM
Aug 2025

Maga white men have their Fruit of the Looms all bunched up because some females and brown people make more money than they do. They want all the brown people rounded up and deported and they want all the women to stay home and be breeders.

Who do they think is going to work the jobs we have now, let alone new ones?

raccoon

(32,469 posts)
6. Thanks for posting that. He speaks for all of them. Sure, they don't have to worry about higher prices.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:16 AM
Aug 2025

He and all the other useless Congresspeople have a whole lot of spending money.

Initech

(109,273 posts)
9. No they are not! MAGA, Fox, and Trump are fucking WRONG for this country!
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:52 PM
Aug 2025

You're brainwashed and in a cult!

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