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turbinetree

(26,480 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:38 PM Aug 21

Florida Farmers To Trump: 'This Is Going To End Us'

Many said they are paying well above the minimum wage, and yet they have gotten few American-born job applicants.

By Susie Madrak — August 21, 2025

Florida farmers can't find Americans willing to work to fill jobs abandoned by immigrants are saying they will have to cut back on future plantings out of fear of going out of business. Via Raw Story:

According to a report from NPR, those farmers have suffered losses of almost half their seasonal workers and can’t afford to replace them with H2A visa workers as has been suggested by Trump administration officials.

NPR’s Jasmine Garsd is reporting that despite pleas from farmers to grant amnesty to farm workers, the Trump administration is resisting, with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins telling them, “Ultimately, the answer to this is automation. And then also when you think about it, there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America.”

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/florida-farmers-trump-going-end-us

To all the farmers that voted for the fascist traitor............you haven't figured it out yet...............just maybe you should look at what Russia did to the farmers.............

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Florida Farmers To Trump: 'This Is Going To End Us' (Original Post) turbinetree Aug 21 OP
Good. They deserve to be ended paleotn Aug 21 #1
Play stupid games.... PlanetBev Aug 21 #2
How many times do we have to warn them not to play Russian roulette? sakabatou Aug 21 #3
There will be a huge number of family farms being sold out to Big Ag...again...nt Wounded Bear Aug 21 #4
Leopards. Faces. Deep State Witch Aug 21 #5
they GOT what they voted for... democratsruletheday Aug 21 #6
They were warned he didn't care about small businesses or farms. haele Aug 21 #7

paleotn

(20,777 posts)
1. Good. They deserve to be ended
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:51 PM
Aug 21

I hope it bankrupts the lot of them. Then they’ll have one more thing in common with Donnie the dumbass

haele

(14,520 posts)
7. They were warned he didn't care about small businesses or farms.
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 05:39 PM
Aug 21

If they, or any other citizen, did the minimum of investigation, they could see the clear evidence he only cared about getting as much money in his personal bank accounts as soon as he could, and he didn't care where it came from or how he might be cheating investors or other people
They heard him lying outright and often, sometimes for no reason, even if the truth could help him.
They saw what he was capable of the first time he was in office, but was constrained a bit by staffers and a Congress that still cared somewhat. They saw how little attention he paid to governance or the wellbeing of the American People in general.
They could read a synopsis of Project 2025 if they cared to
If he put "I don't give a F**** about the USA, Gimme Lots of Money if You Want Anything from My Government" on a huge flashing Neon sign over Mar-a-Lago, he couldn't have been more obvious on what was going to happen to them.

He has no friends. He doesn't want friends. He just has business partners, sugar daddies, or sycophants.

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