Deeply pro Trump town of 11,000 losing 3200 jobs because of Trump policies

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Tyson plant closes in a 5 weeks

https://www.reddit.com/r/EducatedInvesting/comments/1pll9ds/a_deeply_pro_trump_town_in_nebraska_is_losing/

[Historic NY]

1. They won't get by on Trumps snap benefits either.

[sakabatou]

2. *releases face-eating leopards*

[Norrrm]

3. Something about bootstraps. Trump will cheer you on.

[stopdiggin]

4. Senators Fisher and Ricketts have already addressed this

and I can assure you that it is entirely the Democrat's fault ...

[Coldwater]

5. They wanted him

and now they're paying for it with a worsening economy and job losses

[Ol Janx Spirit]

6. It is all too easy for them to find reasons to blame everyone but the Wizard of Snooze and the Republicans that...

...enable him.

The closure of this plant likely does have a lot to do with tariffs and immigration raids, but it is also due to problems in the cattle and meat packing industry that have been brewing for a long time. The people living and working in this town are probably very familiar with the history behind that.

But here is the thing: it is all to easy to look at things Democrats do to help the little guy and promote better environmental and work practices and say, "Democrats did this to us!"

For example, from the Fiscal Year 2024 Description of Funded Projects:

Recipient: Sonoma County Meat Co., LLC***
City/Town: Santa Rosa, CA
District: CA-05
Project Type: Expansion
Award Amount: $5,000,000
More Local Meat Please: New Processing Capacity to Support Climate-Smart Meat Production
in Northern California
Established in 2014, Sonoma County Meat Co., LLC, is a woman-owned USDA and state inspected meat
processing facility serving beef, pork, lamb, and goat producers. With a focus on supporting local
producers and building a sustainable local food system, they will use USDA funding to quadruple their
value-added production capacity. This expansion will benefit over 100 small, sustainable livestock
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producers in the region. The funds will be used to purchase equipment such as bone broth machinery, a
vacuum stuffer linker, a rollstock machine, and climate smart electric vehicle charging units.
Additionally, the project will create 25 new processing-related jobs.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Combined_LocalMCap_Projects.pdf

Here is a closer look at the plant closure in question:
https://cap.unl.edu/news/understanding-tyson-lexington-plant-closure-what-it-means-cattle-producers/

In addition, it may not be surprising that the population of this town that is dominated by a packing plant has a large non-white population. White people only make up 28.64% of the town.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/nebraska/lexington

You have to wonder how much of an impact on this processing plant immigration raids have had?
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-fugitive-operations-team-arrests-44-absconders-illegal-aliens-nebraska

It will be interesting to see what the impact of closures like this are politically in the long run, but it just feels like another one of those things that right-wing media can pass off as a Democratic conspiracy to take jobs away by attacking big business while ignoring all of the bad things the Administration has done to hasten the destruction of another small town.

[markodochartaigh]

9. "...it

may not be surprising that the population of this town that is dominated by a packing plant has a large non-white population."

You're darn tootin'. I grew up in Amarillo a half century ago. I needed college money and the economy was bad. So I worked at the only job in town which paid more than minimum wage and didn't require college education or connections. I went to work at IBP, a large factory slaughterhouse. Around two thirds of the employees were Southeast Asian refugees, this was in '77. There were two starting groups a week. The US workers, Black or White, would often quit before lunch the first day. Few made it more than a week. I stayed a year and a half. I only know of one US born non-management worker who lasted as long as I did. Fifty years later my crapal tunnel still wakes me up at night.
A lot of people back then had a stronger work ethic, and failing at the slaughterhouse meant having to look for work 350 miles away in Dallas or being resigned to a life of poverty. And still very few US workers could cut it. I doubt if today's generation would fare better.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Hooray! They got exactly what they voted for!

Lucky them.

[BidenRocks]

8. Blame Biden.

You just know they will.

Sorry, not sorry

[Coventina]

10. Have the day you voted for!!!

[Permanut]

11. Sources say that this was planned by Barack Obama..

Details will be released next week by Mike Lindell, from Hillary Clinton's emails, which he is positive will be discovered on Hunter Biden's laptop.

[BidenRocks]

12. which is hidden in the basement

of the pizza place.

It's obvious!