permafrost wrote:
Eagle, it gives me pause to answer this considering how bad this day must have been for you. first, the Arizona fake audit found out that, yes Joe Biden did win the election.
Secondly, your beloved topic the pile up at the border just went away.. bridge is empty.
However, I love facts so much I can not resist piling on.
so......
America first bad.. no the idea is great.. it is the misguided course of the action that makes it such a travesty.
it became more isolationism than any policy to promote our country... tariffs that drove 1000s of farmers to bankruptcy, which increased the cost of nearly every home appliance a person could think to buy. And the worse case of all, my lawnmower will not run because the damn little solenoid is stuck in China and will not show up for at least 30 days.. in time to shovel snow.. that means my new yard vacuum toy will not get to do the leaves for me.. damn.
It also stressed the NATO treaty nearly to the breaking point.. the longest most effective joint defense treaty in the world and very nearly was ended. thank the lord for the election of Joe.
Yes, we are a nation of laws, that is why Biden is following the rules.
open borders, you obsess on this idea but it is not a fact.. borders are not open them and Joe did not open them.. just because entry is wanted by a great number of people does not indicate that the border is open.
T-shirts... I would say the coyotes handed them out.. or some right-wing dip sh** gave over as a prank.
The reason they stopped trying to come in at the same numbers is that we had no jobs to hand out. remember the shutdown?
After 3 decades of obstruction, it is time for Republicans to at least get the heck out of the way. They will not lead and will not follow. time for them to go!
trump until you brought him up and I read the Arizona election and refugee camp was gone, I had not thought of him since the last time I was on OPP.
Jobs.. you lost me on this.. plenty of them. my grandson just changed jobs again.. for a GED guy he has done fine.. this one starts him at just over 51,000/year.. hope he likes it.
Pay for my shit... Does that mean that if enough people make so much money they pay taxes, I will get something.. What a great idea, what will it be?
I am so glad that the trump insurrection fell on its butt. like all else trump wise.. it was useless and only for his orangness. LOL.
What a filthy wretch, pis***** example of protoplasm.. glad he is gone.. hope he lives long enough to serve his prison time.. after all, he took away my supplemental health insurance.. he has no redeeming quality at all.. he is not even a good person, let alone a good president.
Well more to do, so until later.. enjoy.
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Speaking in Manitowoc on Sept. 21, 2020, Biden said Trump started a trade war that "led to a surge in farm bankruptcies."
To be sure, times are tough for Wisconsin farmers, particularly in dairy.
In 2019 alone, Wisconsin lost 818 dairy farms, part of an accelerating decline in which about one-quarter of the state’s dairy farms have gone out of business since 2014.
But amid such a long-running trend, is it fair to put the onus for a "surge" on Trump’s trade wars?
The toll on farmers was heavy enough the federal government created the Market Facilitation Program, which paid out more than $14 billion to farmers in 2018 and 2019 to mitigate the impact of the trade wars.
Amid this environment, farm bankruptcies did rise in 2019 — the point where you’d expect to see a spike given the trade battles occurring at the time.
But experts say you can’t draw a dark line between the trade wars and the rise in bankruptcies.
Though the jump from 2018 to 2019 was the largest in recent years, bankruptcies have been rising for a while.
After Chapter 12 bankruptcies dropped from 723 in 2010 to 361 in 2014, the number has steadily grown since.
Farm bankruptcies did drop slightly in the first half of 2020 — the total of 284 was down 10 from the same period in 2019 — but that was "due in large part" to government payments made to farmers as part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
In addition, trade wars are far from the only factor at play for farmers in Wisconsin and nationwide.
Let’s dig in.
Campaigning as a dealmaker in 2016, Trump promised to renegotiate U.S. trade deals in America’s favor, and once in office, he imposed tariffs seeking to achieve that end.
Reuters described it this way:
“The increase in (2019 bankruptcies) had been somewhat expected, bankruptcy experts and agricultural economists said, as farmers face trade battles, ever-mounting farm debt, prolonged low commodity prices, volatile weather patterns, and a fatal pig disease that has decimated China’s herd.”
John Newton, the chief economist at the Farm Bureau, cited many of the same factors in an interview with PolitiFact Wisconsin.
"The farm bankruptcies are a function of not only retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agriculture by China but also years of low commodity prices created by a global economic slowdown and large supplies of grains, oilseeds, and livestock products internationally and recent natural disasters," Newton said in an email.
"I don’t think you can lay the blame of higher farm bankruptcies on the retaliatory tariffs alone."
But this claim oversimplifies by listing the trade wars alone as being responsible for that increase.
We rate this claim Half True.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/02/fact-check-did-trump-trade-war-lead-to-surge-of-farm-bankruptcies/42716789/