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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 12/28/2025 8:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Wouldn't that require a human to place the box around the wannabe orange?   
      
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   dirty old man.   
      
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