XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:42:39 +1300, 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:   
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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 ...   
   >>>    
   >>>    
   >>>    
   >>>>> 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.   
      
   I myself once spent a day "hay-baling" with one of my brothers.   
      
   Ah, the joys of youth!   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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