Daily News Thread 6/1

Kid, if you haven't figured it out yet, this administration is in full on cronyism at this point. Trump his rewarding his allies for their loyalty/money.

However, Trump is so stupid that he goes above and beyond what his allies want, to the point where it actually hurts them.

Hello, /liberty/.

U.S. Farms Can't Compete Without Foreign Workers

bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-01/u-s-farms-need-more-immigrant-workers

I find ironic that the people demanding a WALL are the ones that depend on immigrants the most.

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Yes but I think this is exposing a contradiction. The nativist and racist contagion in Burgerland did not start in the rural areas and the farmers but among the petit-bourgeois suburban whites as people of color were pushed into the burbs post-2008.

It's a long story but gentrification accelerated after the crash due to government policy known as 'quantitative easing.' The Fed created an assload of essentially free money which was then lended out, and urban real-estate markets was where a lot of it ended up. Contrary to what neoclassical 'supply and demand' economists argue, when landlords have a monopoly they will deliberately raise rents as a means of attractive further investment (the hedge funds won't invest unless they can be guaranteed a return). Instead of adding housing supply to lower rents, capital invested where it knew rents would rise – even by remodeling older housing stock to be sold at a profit. This is how some cities (like Baltimore) have seen rising rents even as their populations declined.

Poor people got pushed out.

One extreme example is Austin, which has seen its black population decline not only in relative terms but in absolute ones as these people decamped to the more conservative suburbs. I have seen the racist backlash spread with my own eyes. I grew up in the Dallas burbs and the 60-something white lady across the street from my childhood home changed dramatically. I grew up knowing this woman and she suddenly began talking about killing all Asians, and screaming at the new black neighbors who lived next door. There are now Guatemalans living on the block and she hates them all. It was like the fucking Exorcist where the person you knew became possessed by a demon.

It began contaminating the rural areas later, but the core of it is in the burbs. White supremacy, well-funded (albeit exclusive) public schools and the patriarchal nuclear family are the core ideological interests of this class, and that is a big part of Trump's base, and those interests are the basis for its wealth. Now, agribusiness has been a major donor to the GOP historically, which has reciprocated with generous subsidies – and their support for migrant labor also aligned with George W. Bush-style ruling elites. Now the farmers are getting screwed as the petit-bourgeois types threaten their subsidies and their workforce.

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youtu.be/ZIgP9tTBrio

Yes

Euro-American Split soon

The absolute state of Burgerland

Woohoo

“Farmers” who need wage labor aren’t Farmers, there Kulaks, they can die for all I care.

This is fine though. These “farmers” are Kulaks who rely on agribusiness them getting harmed helps actual peasants, the farmers who are actually suffering.

yeah until they raise food prices to compensate

You are not making correct use of this term, please desist. Substitute "self styled middle class" of something like that.

The absolute state of #theResistance

Higher food prices will help smallholders.

If you own a house in the US you are petite bourg currently.

The absolute state of #MAGA

Not with the tariffs. Prices are going to go down even further since these farmers won't have a market to sell too, corn and soy especially.

Also, the Federal Reserve is planning hike up interest rates as well. That means small farmers, who are struggling with low grain prices, labor shortages, and tariffs, now have to worry about not being able to pay off their loans. That means foreclosures and banks failing.

MAGA at work.

So a repeat of the farmer's crisis in the 80's?

Looks like we have the markings of yet another one brewing. High oil prices, low commodity prices, and interest hikes coming. Exchange the embargo for tariffs and you're set.

Trump won't get his parade of tanks, but he just might see a line of tractors instead.

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Naxalbari rebellion in America soon lads

Honestly, with all of the recent strikes, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we get a farmer protest.

The government simply isn't working anymore.

Republican senators are polling themselves to decide agenda: report

thehill.com/homenews/senate/390470-republican-senators-are-polling-themselves-to-decide-agenda-report

I want everyone to take this in. The Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, yet they can't figure out what to do with that power outside of a pathetic tax cut.

Their complete incompetence is amazing.

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>You know, I just do things.

cmon fam

Almost certainly won't happen. US farming is actually under-mechanized in comparison to, say Australia/New Zealand, due to the dependence of farmers on semi-slave migrant labor. This is an industry that pays so little that not even black or native-born hispanics will work in it. It's one of the few industries where you can get away with paying sub-minimum wage–the going minimum there is $2.00 an hour.

Even just enforcing minimum wage laws would cause a rapid mechanization of US agriculture imo and the result will be overproduction and falling prices.

It could happen for commodities like strawberries and fruits which aren't mechanized, but that would just result in Americans buying cheaper imports from Mexico.

However, they can't raise prices right now even if they wanted to, since the tariffs will close off the competing markets. One way or another, prices will fall this year.

They don't need a plan. Trump is doing everything needed to get them reelected: a trade war that will prove massively popular with the populist GOP base. All Trump has to do is go 100% into it, and he probably will. Over the next month a trade war with China will become inevitable, then Mexico will elect AMLO which means the new NAFTA plan will die in vitro. By November the EU will have given up and will impose tariffs, meaning Americans can get what they have wanted for the past half century: glorious isolationism.

GOP legislators can keep sputtering around all they want. Trump doesn't need them and in the end so much damage will be done they won't be able to fix it. They'll instead focus on ripping apart Social Security and Medicaid. The entire market could crash but it won't matter, Trump is offering jobs and work -meaning and belonging- to the masses previously raped by capitalism. He will win and so will his party.

Meanwhile, as this happens the rest of the world will have to figure out how to do capitalism without America. They won't and the era of neoliberalism will come to a close, likely with the EU melting apart.

You're from Europe, aren't you?

no I live outside of redlands

As an American I can confirm this, there is nothing Americans want more than lot’s of empty land all to themselves/friends and family.