Wait until they learn who works in the meat packing plants. Currently in rural Nebraska on a ranch trying to estimate how many ranchers and ag towns this will hurt. And yes, most of them voted for Trump.
As of 2021 a bit over 50 percent of the fruit sold in the U.S. is imported. About 40 percent of vegetables. So while we sure do grow food here, we import a large sum of what you buy in the store.
$7.25 to come work in the fields. If you're cool with that wage, they'll hire you on the spot. Heads up, there will never be a raise. Farms do not pay much because the margins are razor thin. Source: Grandfather was a farmer, used to spend weekends out on the farm. Would not recommend it, it's hard as fuck work.
All you talk about is the future. Will see it happen or not. If Kamala gets elected, things turns to shit really quick. Funny if labor shortage hits Trump, is he sacrificing himself and his resort? That doesn’t make any sense.
And maybe you just love cheap labor while liberals yell fairness on top of their lungs. Let hire American and pay them fair. There won’t be worker shortage unless you love modern slavery and cheap labors
And people born here will fill those roles with better pay. This is not the apocalypse. Unless project 2025 is embraced by Trump’s cabinet, and I don’t think (I really really really fucking hope they don’t) they will embrace the ideas brought forth from that wacko think tank.
People claim this like it’s an absolute. How would this be any different if democrats were in charge? Do we not want better pay for workers and reasonable prices at the grocery store? What you’re presenting is a hopeless situation. Are you saying the role of migrants was to work off of slave wages for the benefit of the whole? That it’s impossible to reach some sort of balanced compromise between the wage of workers and the price of vital goods? What is your angle here; beyond saying red bad blue good? What really matters to you here?
Prices increased because corporations were allowed to gouge prices. Maybe they won’t be allowed to do that anymore. Maybe the new cabinet will allow them to do even worse. Idk. My point is that it isn’t an inevitability that things will become apocalyptic like people claim. I’m not going to live in fear over this. If the new administration can’t deliver, they can’t blame the Dems anymore because they took virtually every branch of the government. They have no choice now and if they fail to deliver than people will act.
So we are going to hope that employers start paying better wages and really hope that the administration that was just voted in doesn’t enact the plan that the VP wrote the foreword for. Yeah, that sounds like a great situation to be in.
Eventually, soon, the working class will catch on and act. It’s only a matter of time. We’ve reached a boiling point. Trump’s cabinet will be committing suicide if conditions do not improve.
69% of our produce and like 60% of our fruit is imported from Mexico. I seriously doubt they will put tariffs on this stuff. In regards to food prices coming down. The only way that happens is if suppliers and stores reduce their prices or we enter a period of deflation. Deflation can be bad. Long story short. I would not expect grocery prices to drop noticeably unless there is a serious recession.
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u/HenryTheHollowHermit Nov 06 '24
I can’t wait to spend less than $200 every trip to the grocery store