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Old 11-26-2018, 02:19 PM   #931
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This is bad news for Trumps agenda, those tax cuts didn't help GM I guess.
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Old 11-26-2018, 05:45 PM   #932
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Trump has been lying this month that car plants are opening in "Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and South Carolina and North Carolina and Florida." https://twitter.com/AP/status/1067079061028200448 …
It's just a little exaggeration to get his message across to the public. Like when he touted the impact of his steel tariffs. Nothing wrong with a guy tooting his own horn every once in a while.

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President Donald Trump is crediting his tariffs with persuading U.S. Steel to open a half dozen new plants. That's not so.

TRUMP at a Pennsylvania rally Thursday night: "U.S. Steel is opening up seven plants." On Tuesday, he told supporters in Florida: "U.S. Steel just announced that they're building six new steel mills."

THE FACTS: The Pittsburgh-based company has made no such announcement. U.S. Steel spokeswoman Meghan Cox declined to comment on Trump's claim but said any "operational changes" such as the opening of new mills would be "publicly announced" and "made available on our website" if it occurred.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...g-mills-not-so
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Old 11-26-2018, 06:52 PM   #933
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The American farmer was doing so well with soy products that it cut planting carrots. Now shifting more a percentage of carrots there will not be the shortage in carrots in 2019 that there was 2018. Hey I read, just let you know I don't need the phone for anything other than making calls. Let me spell it out for you, F%$&k China.
Thank God I can start making carrot cake again.
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Old 11-26-2018, 07:26 PM   #934
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Well it is factual, instead of carrots farmers increased soy. The very small fraction that these United States sells into mainland China is a pittance compared to what China sells into our country. The pressure of trade tariffs is well worth the pain we absorb for objectives of forcing fair trade with China. Our friend with the economics degree is more concerned about his portfolio than those poor poor Walmart shoppers.
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Old 11-26-2018, 07:32 PM   #935
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This is bad news for Trumps agenda, those tax cuts didn't help GM I guess.
GM has always been their own worse enemy.

Look around? They have the worst designed cars on the planet. Wasted billions on the Volt.

The Cadillac division has been a loser for 15 yrs plus

Pontiac and Olds disappeared after producing quite possibly the worst looking cars ever.


Anybody recall the Aztek?

Good riddance!
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Old 11-26-2018, 07:52 PM   #936
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Well it is factual, instead of carrots farmers increased soy.

Did you just make this up? The big carrot growers are in California, Washington, and Texas. Soybeans are a major crop in the upper Midwest: Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. And soybean farmers there are hurting.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/refu...ps-buying.html
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Old 11-26-2018, 07:53 PM   #937
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GM has always been their own worse enemy.

Look around? They have the worst designed cars on the planet. Wasted billions on the Volt.

The Cadillac division has been a loser for 15 yrs plus

Pontiac and Olds disappeared after producing quite possibly the worst looking cars ever.


Anybody recall the Aztek?

Good riddance!
But it's so much easier for the lazy-minded to blame Trump for GM's woes.
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Old 11-26-2018, 07:54 PM   #938
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Did you just make this up? The big carrot growers are in California, Washington, and Texas. Soybeans are a major crop in the upper Midwest: Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. And soybean farmers there are hurting.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/refu...ps-buying.html
Carrots are like grass, will grow anyplace. Yes a shortage in 2018 because other crops.

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Old 11-26-2018, 08:13 PM   #939
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Soy Bean farmers can plant numerous other crops besides Soy Beans. They've been planting crops based on proposed prices for the upcoming year forever. They will just choose to plant other crops for the most part. In ND farmers have a choice between about fourteen different crops. Most have half a dozen different crops in a given year. And with the steep reduction of Soy Bean acres planted over the next couple years will come record prices for Soy Beans the following couple years. Happens all the time with crops.
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Soy Bean farmers can plant numerous other crops besides Soy Beans.
Including carrots?


Are ND farmers hurt or not by Chinese tariffs on soybeans?
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Ummm, they would never do that
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Ummm, they would never do that
Why not? Most of the politicians there and elsewhere are just as clueless about tariffs as Trump is, and don't realize that all they are doing is imposing higher taxes on their own citizens.
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Why not? Most of the politicians there and elsewhere are just as clueless about tariffs as Trump is, and don't realize that all they are doing is imposing higher taxes on their own citizens.
Because at the end of the day the grown-ups will decide, i.e. those with the money in their pockets.
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Because at the end of the day the grown-ups will decide, i.e. those with the money in their pockets.

The "grown-ups" with money in their pockets hate tariffs. They love the profits on cheap imports sold to citizens of the richest country in the world in a healthy economy.
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