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In reply to the discussion: Some Trump Voters Already Regret Their Decision Amid Concerns Over Tariffs, Job Cuts, and Rising Cost [View all]JustAnotherGen
(37,474 posts)Again - I'm a licensed Customs Broker, Certified Export Specialist, Certified HTS US Specialist, etc. etc.
I survived the 2018 301 Investigation (China) Tariffs. I'm now going to have to fight my way through 232s and whatever else Putin demands Trump throw at us.
You keep worrying about Farmers - and that's your right. I'm also final signature on a family owned Agribusiness with thousands of acres in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and laying still in Arkansas (dad and his brothers picked it up in the 1980's).
We farm to feed our neighbors - not to export soybeans. If those white farmers who have always gotten a free ride from the government are applauding this . . .
I can show you a company in Secaucus NJ that LITERALLY kept the world running with their Cloud Compute and Storage servers Made in the USA and exported form Secaucus - of which their tariff bill went from just under $2M to just under $100M between September 24, 2018 and September 23, 2019. In the meantime, the Government slow rolled drawback access and had a shit assed approach to this new thing called exclusions. I watch people in the NYC and Northern NJ area take a train and 2 bus stops to make $25 an hour to keep America running.
I also had to deal with India where we were the IOR - who slammed us with extreme regulation hurdles. Ditto Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Australia etc. etc. - it's called retaliation.
My family will eat regardless of what happens.
But my current employer keeps America's Freight Trains running.
Good luck to corporate farmers getting their shit to the ports if we can't produce those valves anymore - or have to pull back production.
You are talking to someone who negotiated her own balloon out of the last company - and helped establish the sub build solutions in Mexico, the NL, and yep - Shenzen CN. I've had 12 head hunters contact me since Wednesday last week. I know how to get around the man.
My family will eat. As a matter of fact - we've had full time regular employees (multiple generations) since the Great Flood. Our employees will eat and we won't change a thing for them. We will still pay health insurance, lay off seasonally, provide Christmas bonuses etc. etc.
It's what ethical farmers do - so let the midwest farmers who voted for dumb fuckistan suffer.
I wrote what I wrote and I mean every word of it. No joke folks. It's a self-inflicted wound. They did it to themselves.