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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:55:16 -0600, Lynn McGuire   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/27/2025 10:35 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:30:07 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >>>> 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 ...   
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   >>    
   >>>> 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.   
      
   If the banks will loan them enough.   
      
   And the manufacturers have enough on hand.   
      
   Could be two or three seasons before that solution works.   
      
   Of course, the population will be rather ... thin ... by then. In at   
   least two meanings: "they disappear when they turn sideways" and   
   "there aren't nearly as many as there used to be".   
      
   And not everything (AFAIK) can be harvested that way.   
      
   Which is why some innovative thinkers are trying to produce -- cubical   
   oranges. So a machine can pick them easily.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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