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She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
(www.nbcnews.com)
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“I’ll admit to you, I bleed Republican. However, this has left a sour taste in my mouth,” Carlson said.
Keep bleeding, then.
And the EU starts putting tariffs on farm products from the USA, so that bleeding could increase.
They did this to us. The farmers. We know who they voted for, as a group. Fuck 'em. Let them reap what they sow.
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Waiting for them to all bleed out.
It's a religion to these people. It doesn't matter what the policies are or what the impacts are. They need to be part of that local in-group.
The farm has been in her family for generations but has struggled over the past several years amid the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer and other operating expenses. [...] Since taking over the family farm in 2019 [...]
While I fully admit running a farm is a massive endeavor, the fact that the farm started having persistent issues shortly after she took over indicates to me that at least part of the problem is poor management.
“The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs,” Carlson said. “They don’t want to do the hard labor, and that’s what’s frustrating, because we would love to hire U.S. workers, but we can’t get them to show up. We can’t get them to follow through. We can’t get them to finish the season.”
The American worker is perfectly happy to perform laborious jobs - just not at the rate you're willing to pay them. It's called "acting your wage".
Americans, even if they're paid well, will not go stand in the sun for 12 hours a day. Sometimes it's not about money. Sometimes it's about the job being shit and you need to change the job.
But also money.
I think the point is why bust your balls in the sun for 12 hours a day when you can make the same money doing basic clerical work in an air conditioned office
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In Australia, Construction workers, mining workers, etc. do that. They are just compensated well for it.
Sounds like they need improved worker protections. Maybe unionize.
12 hours of work a day is inappropriate.
Trade jobs can be surprisingly seasonal. My dad, who does mostly commercial HVAC work, works himself to the bone in early spring and fall. Plenty of downtime, usually, outside of those areas.
If you're hourly, or laid off in the downtime, you want to work when you can. Even if it's for 12 hours straight.
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I'd have to be making well upwards of six figures to be willing to stand in the sun for 12 hours a day.
The jobs that pay the least are the ones that should pay the most.
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Isn't that just the free market in action? Can't find workers, raise the wages until you do. Supply and demand right there. You demand workers and they demand you supply an acceptable wage.
No, not like that. These entitled workers should be falling over to thank their employer for the jerbs they created and kiss the ring for paying them what they are legally required to. Duh! (big /s on that one)
What do they want to pay? Minimum wage for 60 hours per week with no overtime.
When your business requires the exploition of cheap labor, you deserve to go bankrupt.
In defense of farms, they're squeezed from both ends. She's not entirely wrong that it's getting harder and harder to be an independent farmer and as things get worse, the small farms are bought up by the mega corporations.
What she's wrong about is that a carpetbagger from manhattan would ever do anything for her. One of the big things that would help small farmers get labor would be for this country to get a real single payer healthcare option. Many, many people would tolerate a lower wage if their healthcare was covered. We could also start getting rid of the subsidies that only the major farms get and are using it to undercut smaller farms. Two things the republicans would never do.
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the first part is probably from COVID increasing the cost everything else, and trying to low-ball immigrant pays. some people on reddit on the very same post, why doesnt the family work on the farm.
Why do they need immigrant help? I see a shitload of kids that can work the farm. That's how my dad's family operated an apple orchard north of Detroit. Of course, they all died from cancers after years of exposure to pesticides without PPE, but that's a problem for later!
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
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Oh damn, I’m definitely saving this one for later.
-tiny violin-
The liberal tears are from laughing too hard.
"I bleed Republican."
Fuck you. Hope her farm folds and the debt chases her the rest of her life.
They’re bleeding you, alright
Oh hell revive it...just after he or his friends buy it and use it to profit from your starving family.
They aint starving.
They will be.
These people are so fucking stupid
I really don't understand how these people think. A person reliant on government funding and immigrant workers votes for the guy who campaigned on cutting government funding and getting rid of immigrants.
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Thoughts and prayers.
Let's face it. We have been talking about technology eliminating the drudge work of society for decades. We used technology to automate so many tedious but not necessarily body destroying jobs. Farm work is body destroying and should be automated as much as is technologically feasible.
From the CDC:
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Deaths
- In 2022, workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting industry had one of the highest fatal injury rates (18.6 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalents), compared to 3.7 deaths per 100,000 FTE for all U.S. industries.
- Transportation incidents were the leading cause of death for these farmers and farm workers. Other leading causes were violence by other persons or animals and contact with objects and equipment.
- In 2022, over half (56%) of deaths in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industry occurred to workers 55 years of age and older.
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Cherry farmer? Really? The first time wasn't bad enough?
According to her, the first term was great
So she is either alien to the concept of math or another "fuck you, got mine" psycho who got lucky
Trump supporters have no long term memory capacity. There are ones that believe that Biden was in charge at the beginning of Covid.
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Bootstraps.
Whiner.
If only there was some way she could have known. Anyway....
better get your family working on the farm then.
Stupid cunt.
I truly wish these people would wake up. I know we're mostly smarter than these people so the schadenfreude it's easy to come by, but most of us aren't thriving under capitalism, and 100% of us are compromising voting for one of the two viable political parties.
I didn't vote for the guy and even I didn't even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that's come so far.
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Dumb ass mf
They look like quiverfull morons
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