im already tired of these stories as they serve no purpose – these same cult members will vote red until their farms blow away ala dustbowl great depression
so many economists warned everyone over and over that trumps deport anyone tanner than coffee with cream was going to cause inflation and hardships along with mercurial tariffs that inject so much uncertainty
i have been wrong so many times about swing voters coming to their senses that hope is at a real low point, i would have bet a thousand dollars that Roe being repealed was going to cost the gop dearly and they won all 3 branches
we are going to have front row seats to the quick decline of the USA, thank you maga and lazy non-voters
Dr_G_E on
“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”
If you deport all the cheap, undocumented labor in the US you will inevitably have to raise wages and benefits and follow federal labor laws to attract US citizens to work for you. This creates additional cost to production and ultimately increases inflation, but I assume the farmers who voted for the president knew what would happen once their employees were deported, since that’s their business.
circuitloss on
Wow, maybe there was a reason that Ronald Reagan wanted to encourage immigration so that companies could have a cheap labor force to draw on. It’s amazing how something so fundamental to what used to be “The Republican party” now seems like an alien language and concept.
This is called the free market, and it’s going to kick these farmers in the butt. So that probably means that the next announcement will be more bailouts from the supposed conservative party.
Charming-Tap-1332 on
I absolutely love this for the farmers.
Between labor shortages and a completely dead export market for their products, they should all be really happy with their stupidity that led them to vote for Donald Trump.
I hope the local banks who financed them enjoy farm ownership.
Lex070161 on
Americans are hardly spoiled with a living wage. If you cant afford workers your business is untenable. Theyre already lining up for the welfare handouts.
momplaysbass on
Reap, meet sow.
Honestly, did they not think this through, or did they believe the parts they wanted to believe, and ignored the other parts where he’s doing exactly what he said he would do? I feel for the consumers who will ultimately suffer for their bad choices in the voting booth. These farmers, however, committed economic suicide, and that’s on them.
NeuroticallyCharles on
Sell the farm then. My late uncle sold his farm for $5,000 an acre. He had a tiny farm at ~175 acres. These people are sitting on almost undoubtedly millions of dollars. They made this choice, now suffer with the rest of us.
ChafterMies on
>too spoiled
What kind of destruction to the economy would we need make these jobs at their current pay desirable for American citizens? No thanks. If these farmers want more workers, they should find a way to pay more. Maybe they should buy fewer lattes and subscribe to fewer streaming services. Then they’d have more money for payroll.
savagefleurdelis23 on
“People don’t understand that if we don’t get more labor, our cows don’t get milked and our crops don’t get picked,” said Tim Wood, a dairy farmer and a member of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau board of directors.
Oh, people do understand very well, Tim. That’s why they warned you that voting for Trump is a bad idea. That voting for anti immigration is a bad idea. And now those people are shaking their heads at the consequences of your voting record. You are finally getting the consequences to your actions.
bkemp1984Part2 on
“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. **“We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”**
Beautiful. Make sure that when talking about how your own voting enacted the policies you’re suffering from that you also manage to insult the majority of your country people who realize a terrible, unfairly compensated, body destroying job when they see one.
_allycat on
I’ll never understand how Republicans who hire illegal immigrants are still rabidly anti illegal immigrant. My conservative family members literally all have illegal latino landscapers, handyman, and people working for their small businesses but they have this insane mental barrier that they just gloss over the fact they’re actively trying to get rid of their own workers. And i don’t even think it’s a case of “oh but my guy was one of the good ones” – in the past maybe but not now as sentiments have gotten more extreme. It’s just complete inability to see they are saying/voting one thing and doing another and they can’t have both.
tinytabbytoebeans on
No sympathy from me. I grew up in PA and they are just as racist there as any state in the deep south. I have seen plenty of migrant workers come in to pick seasonal crops and stop at the grocery store where I worked. They were always hard working and polite and worked 100F summers without complaint. Plenty were also here to wake up at 4am every day to prepare the dairy cows for milking.
Then the farmers decide to vote to get rid of these workers and then are shocked they can’t find Americans willing to get up at 4am or pick crops when it’s 100f outside and accept pennies as payment for labor. There is going to be a reckoning and I’m glad people are waking up to how our food supply depended so much on exploiting immigrants/migrant workers.
LimitofInterest on
Its sad, it truly is. I’m not saying you should’ve known what was coming, but its not like you weren’t warned.
The real tragedy here is I know of many farmers in PA that are generational farms (as the article illustrates as well). These weren’t properties that were handed downed in the family to be consumed by AcreTrader or Blackrock, but here we are. It doesn’t end there though, as the dollar devalues, it opens up for international “investors” to move in.
13 Comments
may you have the day you voted for
im already tired of these stories as they serve no purpose – these same cult members will vote red until their farms blow away ala dustbowl great depression
so many economists warned everyone over and over that trumps deport anyone tanner than coffee with cream was going to cause inflation and hardships along with mercurial tariffs that inject so much uncertainty
i have been wrong so many times about swing voters coming to their senses that hope is at a real low point, i would have bet a thousand dollars that Roe being repealed was going to cost the gop dearly and they won all 3 branches
we are going to have front row seats to the quick decline of the USA, thank you maga and lazy non-voters
“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”
If you deport all the cheap, undocumented labor in the US you will inevitably have to raise wages and benefits and follow federal labor laws to attract US citizens to work for you. This creates additional cost to production and ultimately increases inflation, but I assume the farmers who voted for the president knew what would happen once their employees were deported, since that’s their business.
Wow, maybe there was a reason that Ronald Reagan wanted to encourage immigration so that companies could have a cheap labor force to draw on. It’s amazing how something so fundamental to what used to be “The Republican party” now seems like an alien language and concept.
This is called the free market, and it’s going to kick these farmers in the butt. So that probably means that the next announcement will be more bailouts from the supposed conservative party.
I absolutely love this for the farmers.
Between labor shortages and a completely dead export market for their products, they should all be really happy with their stupidity that led them to vote for Donald Trump.
I hope the local banks who financed them enjoy farm ownership.
Americans are hardly spoiled with a living wage. If you cant afford workers your business is untenable. Theyre already lining up for the welfare handouts.
Reap, meet sow.
Honestly, did they not think this through, or did they believe the parts they wanted to believe, and ignored the other parts where he’s doing exactly what he said he would do? I feel for the consumers who will ultimately suffer for their bad choices in the voting booth. These farmers, however, committed economic suicide, and that’s on them.
Sell the farm then. My late uncle sold his farm for $5,000 an acre. He had a tiny farm at ~175 acres. These people are sitting on almost undoubtedly millions of dollars. They made this choice, now suffer with the rest of us.
>too spoiled
What kind of destruction to the economy would we need make these jobs at their current pay desirable for American citizens? No thanks. If these farmers want more workers, they should find a way to pay more. Maybe they should buy fewer lattes and subscribe to fewer streaming services. Then they’d have more money for payroll.
“People don’t understand that if we don’t get more labor, our cows don’t get milked and our crops don’t get picked,” said Tim Wood, a dairy farmer and a member of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau board of directors.
Oh, people do understand very well, Tim. That’s why they warned you that voting for Trump is a bad idea. That voting for anti immigration is a bad idea. And now those people are shaking their heads at the consequences of your voting record. You are finally getting the consequences to your actions.
“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. **“We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”**
Beautiful. Make sure that when talking about how your own voting enacted the policies you’re suffering from that you also manage to insult the majority of your country people who realize a terrible, unfairly compensated, body destroying job when they see one.
I’ll never understand how Republicans who hire illegal immigrants are still rabidly anti illegal immigrant. My conservative family members literally all have illegal latino landscapers, handyman, and people working for their small businesses but they have this insane mental barrier that they just gloss over the fact they’re actively trying to get rid of their own workers. And i don’t even think it’s a case of “oh but my guy was one of the good ones” – in the past maybe but not now as sentiments have gotten more extreme. It’s just complete inability to see they are saying/voting one thing and doing another and they can’t have both.
No sympathy from me. I grew up in PA and they are just as racist there as any state in the deep south. I have seen plenty of migrant workers come in to pick seasonal crops and stop at the grocery store where I worked. They were always hard working and polite and worked 100F summers without complaint. Plenty were also here to wake up at 4am every day to prepare the dairy cows for milking.
Then the farmers decide to vote to get rid of these workers and then are shocked they can’t find Americans willing to get up at 4am or pick crops when it’s 100f outside and accept pennies as payment for labor. There is going to be a reckoning and I’m glad people are waking up to how our food supply depended so much on exploiting immigrants/migrant workers.
Its sad, it truly is. I’m not saying you should’ve known what was coming, but its not like you weren’t warned.
The real tragedy here is I know of many farmers in PA that are generational farms (as the article illustrates as well). These weren’t properties that were handed downed in the family to be consumed by AcreTrader or Blackrock, but here we are. It doesn’t end there though, as the dollar devalues, it opens up for international “investors” to move in.