XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/27/2025 3:42 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-27 20:55:16 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:   
   >> On 12/27/2025 10:35 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:30:07 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>>> But I am not reading articles stating "95% of MAGA rejects Trump's   
   >>>>> tariffs because they raise the price they have to pay at the store".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No percentages but some MAGA are waking up to the price of beef at   
   >>>> the supermarket as well as other frequently purchased products.   
   >>>> This was   
   >>>> one of the candidate's main talking points during the campaign.   
   >>>   
   >>> I've read those as well, and, while it is heartening to think that   
   >>> the one or two that are identified are the tip of iceberg, at least   
   >>> one of these disgruntled MAGAs did not blame D Trump -- but G Soros.   
   >>>   
   >>> Speaking of sheeple ...   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>>> I am seeing availablity problems reminiscent of the supply chain   
   >>>>> problems during the pandemic. Perhaps ICE is arresting/deporting   
   >>>>> truck drivers who "look like a Mexican" and so producing supply-   
   >>>>> chain issues.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes and the price of some fruit has moved out of my price range.   
   >>>> I suspect part of that is tariff and part is the unwillingness of   
   >>>> drivers to risk ICE idiocy.  I know from news reports including the   
   >>>> testimony of growers that they are not getting the workers that they   
   >>>> need for harvest because the workers are fearful of ICE which does   
   >>>> not apparently give a damn if the people whom they are arresting are   
   >>>> American Citizens or non-citizens with green cards.   
   >>>   
   >>> Right now we are still running, I suspect, mostly on the harvests of   
   >>> years past. So food is available, but the market is raising the   
   >>> prices. But that won't last forever if ICE deports the workers..   
   >>   
   >> If the prices rise then the owners can afford picking machines.   
   >>   
   >> Lynn   
   >   
   > For many fruits and vegetables, picking machines are simply useless and   
   > damage the fruit, making it worthless. Human pickers are a far better   
   > option - usually they're low-paid students, travellers, and imported   
   > temporary workers, mainly because nobody else actually wants to do the   
   > physically hard work, often in the blazing sun.   
      
   Been there, done that, here in South Texas.   
      
   Always in the blazing sun.  You forgot the wasps, bees, and snakes   
   working alongside you.   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)