The hole will bury Trump as well. Harvesting season is approaching, while migrant workers are hiding for fear of ICE raids or have been sent home already. Without the workers to do the harvesting, even with all the machines, what are farmers going to do?
Harvesting season is also a big problem for farmers. without the guarantee of being able to sell the beans. The soya beans will rot in silos if kept too long, which is a double whammy for USA farmers. Where is the market now? China is not buying soya beans anymore from the USA.
Trump is begging China to buy his soya beans, when he is in the thick of a tariff war against China, which is a no brainer. Luckily, he did not demand, or China will just show him the middle finger. Will Trump again impose a 15% cut on soya sales to China if successful, the same that he did with Nvidia H20 chips. Trump was building castles in the air about imposing a 15% cut on sale of Nvidia chips to China. All the painting of a win-win scenario just vanished into thin air, now that China refused to accept those H20 Nvidia chips. Now, no Nvidia H20 chips being sold to China, no 15% cut as well. Counting chickens before they are hatched is what Trump does best, never mind about chickening out later. This man has no sense of shame, even with six bankruptcies to his name.
Anonymous
Trump thinks he is smart to get rid of cheap migrant workers, but he is killing USA farmers, food and beverage establishments and retail outlets employing cheap workers. USA citizens are not taking over those jobs without substantial wage increases.
ReplyDeleteAll of USA businesses are now suffering double whammies. Shortage of workers in most jobs that USA citizens shun and escalating costs resulting from the tariffs imposed on other countries. Retail outlets have to pass on the tariffs to consumers, otherwise it means kicking the bucket for sure.
Now the third whammy is beginning to bite with markets closing for USA products destined for China, Canada and EU. Even tourism into the USA is now suffering the indirect consequence of those tariffs, with tourists avoiding the USA and putting its hotels and food and beverage businesses under stress. With tourism affecting jobs, how many will be affected is yet unknown. But it certainly will not be minor, with tourism logistics catering to the sector will all be seriously affected - hotels, food and beverage outlets, shopping malls and gate receipts to places like entertainment spots and Disneyland for example.
All these are self-inflicted pain and misery for USA citizens, who are already aware of how 'peasants' are enjoying their life of plenty in China. Ironic!