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On 3/3/2025 at 3:50 PM, Brisketexan said:

THISTHISTHIS.

Of the world's major economies, who was the BEST performer in terms of inflation?  The US....under Biden.

More actual gains were made in bringing strategically important and lucrative manufacturing back to US shores than in decades....via the CHIPS Act...under Biden.

 

None of that shit mattered.  None.  Because trannies and "DEI" (a term MAGA doesn't understand, and simply used as an excuse to "Make White Supremacy Great Again") and dirty beaners who ruin our country what with all their hard work and building things and picking vegetables.

we have to attack the parallel universe

taking the moral high ground on non-white non-male rights and reversing the attack on the last 60 years of civil rights can be done after (if) the people take back power from the garchs

reestablishing the truth on biden and inflation won't win shit next year

truman

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12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that's great and all but their population is about to learn how shitty canadian booze is

Good thing they still have access to whiskeys from Scotland and Japan, tequila from Mexico, gin from England and vodka from France. Not to mention that Old World wines are superior to the stuff we produce. I think they will be just fine. 

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2 minutes ago, royiv said:

Good thing they still have access to whiskeys from Scotland and Japan, tequila from Mexico, gin from England and vodka from France. Not to mention that Old World wines are superior to the stuff we produce. I think they will be just fine. 


Canadians buy 76 million dollars worth of American whiskey every year and 965 million dollars worth of American alcoholic beverages every year.

American breweries and distilleries are having a hard enough time as it is.

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So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb

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10 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb

The idea, if I am being generous, is autarky. Just make everything we need domestically.

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8 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

The idea, if I am being generous, is autarky. Just make everything we need domestically.

And at the same time he wants to kill the CHIPS Act.

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17 minutes ago, royiv said:

And at the same time he wants to kill the CHIPS Act.

As I said, if I am being generous and assume there is some kind of ideological program here. Obviously if you look at it too closely it all looks like incoherent bullshit because it is.

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8 hours ago, Bullneck said:

 

Canada is targeting Kentucky and Tennessee. Heavily red states. And I don't blame them.

 

4 hours ago, royiv said:

And at the same time he wants to kill the CHIPS Act.

Bet it's mainly because he didn't come up with it. He wants to destroy anything Biden came up with and convinced congress to pass.

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Private sector only created 77K jobs in February, down from the projected 148K.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/adp-jobs-report-february-2025-.html

 

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Private sector job creation slowed to a crawl in February, fueling concerns of an economic slowdown, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.

Companies added just 77,000 new workers for the month, well off the upwardly revised 186,000 in January and below the 148,000 Dow Jones consensus estimate, according to seasonally adjusted figures from ADP.

The total was the smallest increase since July and comes at a time when worries are rising that economic growth is slowing and worries brew that President Donald Trump’s tariff plans will spark another round of inflation. ADP said annual pay rose 4.7% in February, the same as the prior month.

Stock market futures lost some of their gains following the release while Treasury yields were mixed.

“Policy uncertainty and a slowdown in consumer spending might have led to layoffs or a slowdown in hiring last month,” said ADP’s chief economist, Nela Richardson. “Our data, combined with other recent indicators, suggests a hiring hesitancy among employers as they assess the economic climate ahead.”

Though most economic data points remain positive, sentiment indicators have shown rising fears among both business executives and consumers that the Trump tariffs could raise prices and slow growth. In the extreme scenario, the combination could cause stagflation, a condition of flat or negative growth and rising prices.

The ADP report reflected some of those concerns, as a sector that lumps together trade, transportation and utility jobs saw a loss of 33,000 positions. Education and health services reported a decline of 28,000, while information services decreased by 14,000 at a time of uncertainty for artificial intelligence-related companies, despite Trump’s commitment to advancing AI efforts.

On the positive side, leisure and hospitality jobs jumped by 41,000, while professional and business services added 27,000, and financial activities and construction both saw gains of 26,000. Manufacturing also reported an increase of 18,000, countering the ISM manufacturing survey for the month that indicated companies were pulling back on hiring.

Services and goods-producing were in unusual balance for the month, adding 36,000 and 42,000 respectively on the month. As the U.S. is a services-based economy, that side usually dominates in job creation.

Employment growth tilted toward large firms in February, with companies employing 500 or more workers reporting a gain of 37,000 while those with fewer than 50 employees saw a loss of 12,000.

The ADP count serves as a precursor to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on nonfarm payrolls, due Friday. However, the two reports can differ substantially due to different methodologies. In January, the BLS reported an increase of just 111,000 in private payrolls, well below the ADP count.

47% of workers are employed by small businesses (under 500). So basically enrich the big companies (and major donors) and fuck the small ones.

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5 hours ago, royiv said:

Good. They need to feel the pain, too. I’m guessing plenty of distillery and brewery owners and employees voted for tariffs.

Especially all the bourbon producers in the south.  They fucked around, now it's find out time.

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On 3/5/2025 at 10:17 AM, Pig Bellmont said:

So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb

Even the stupid fucking toddler in charge cant articulate an end game. Every country needs to tell him to fuck off and call his bluff. Dont roll over and suck his dick like American politicians and CEOs. Hopefully backbones exist elsewhere on the planet. You can't negotiate with a fucking idiot that changes his mind every 24 hours. 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/economy/tariffs-delay-mexico-canada/index.html

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that President Donald Trump will likely announce later in the day a one-month tariff delay on all products that are covered by the USMCA free trade treaty, a significant walkback of the administration’s signature economic plan that has rattled markets, businesses and consumers.

In an interview with CNBC, Lutnick said tariffs on all treaty-compliant products from Mexico and Canada, most of which were hit with a 25% tariff Tuesday, will probably be paused. They will now go into effect on April 2 unless Mexico and Canada show significant progress in fighting what the Trump administration has called an epidemic of fentanyl crossing the border to the United States.

Stocks, which fell sharply to start the day Thursday, remained lower after Lutnick’s announcement but pared some of their losses. The Dow was down about 100 points, or 0.3%. The broader S&P 500 fell 0.6% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was 0.7% lower.

The best lunacy. Sensible men stop me on the street, and they sir, your lunacy. Its like nothing ive ever seen before. 

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I’m so pissed that he keeps kicking the can down the road on making America great again. Tariffs are the tool to generate trillions of dollars for the American people and retire our national debt. Why can’t he grow a spine and institute these beautiful tariffs?

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3 minutes ago, royiv said:

I’m so pissed that he keeps kicking the can down the road on making America great again. Tariffs are the tool to generate trillions of dollars for the American people and retire our national debt. Why can’t he grow a spine and institute these beautiful tariffs?

He's a Republican. Anything to get votes. Once in office, then the real work of making the rich richer begins. 

It's been the GOP playbook for decades and it works in cycles.

 

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

He's a Republican. Anything to get votes. Once in office, then the real work of making the rich richer begins. 

It's been the GOP playbook for decades and it works in cycles.

 

Look, I didn’t vote for the guy to cozy up to Mexico and Canada and let them off the hook. I voted for pain and for them to pay their fair share. I need Trump to step up and institute these tariffs to Make America Great Again!!! 

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Is anyone pulling out of the markets as (a) protection against trump’s seemingly intentional recession and (b) protest against Trump since there’s little else we can do until midterms and we know he views the stock markets as a report card? I’ve been thinking about it…

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On 3/5/2025 at 10:17 AM, Pig Bellmont said:

So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb

I believe the end game of all of this is to undermine the global role of the dollar. 

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5 minutes ago, B00M said:

Is anyone pulling out of the markets as (a) protection against trump’s seemingly intentional recession and (b) protest against Trump since there’s little else we can do until midterms and we know he views the stock markets as a report card? I’ve been thinking about it…

I cashed out all my long term held RSUs that I've accumulated. Granted I was locking in 25% gains from the acquisition price and my wife and I are looking for a new house. But I've been happy with my move so far and still have a good bit of skin in the game

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Just now, Captainant said:

I cashed out all my long term held RSUs that I've accumulated. Granted I was locking in 25% gains from the acquisition price and my wife and I are looking for a new house. But I've been happy with my move so far and still have a good bit of skin in the game

I think that’s a good move, I’ve never been comfortable keeping too much of my net worth tied to my employer. Take the gain and diversify the risk.

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28 minutes ago, B00M said:

Is anyone pulling out of the markets as (a) protection against trump’s seemingly intentional recession and (b) protest against Trump since there’s little else we can do until midterms and we know he views the stock markets as a report card? I’ve been thinking about it…

I moved half of my retirement to gold (GLD) a week ago. That's had a slight profit since then.  It'll stay stable or increase unless the nukes drop.  This week, I moved another 25% to Fidelity's money market account (SPAXX) that is returning 4.x%. I'm okay with that return for 2025.  I have roughly 20% in the S&P 500 (FXAIX) and 5% still in tech (VGT).  I was in FXAIX & VGT for over 15 years with no complaints.  I was hoping to stay in that mix for 6 more years until retirement.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I believe the end game of all of this is to undermine the global role of the dollar. 

It’s depressing how this is probably the correct answer- that combined with a healthy “Jews control the banks, so let’s screw them while making money on manipulating crypto”. Otherwise I can’t make much sense of him railing against (((globalists)))

 

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On 3/5/2025 at 10:17 AM, Pig Bellmont said:

So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb

Correct, he's very stupid and has no understanding of international trade, comparative advantage, etc.

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Is anyone pulling out of the markets as (a) protection against trump’s seemingly intentional recession and (b) protest against Trump since there’s little else we can do until midterms and we know he views the stock markets as a report card? I’ve been thinking about it…

Hedging for sure. There will be a rebound, but the agent of chaos is just getting started. Eventually, his laziness will take over.
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1 hour ago, WBT said:

Correct, he's very stupid and has no understanding of international trade, comparative advantage, etc.

He only understands the market going red and that’s why he backtracks over and over.  We all know he has zero spine or anything real he stands for outside lining his own pockets…

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10 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

 

Yep. But that makes tons more sense than tariffing Mexico and Canada.

I mean it is probably still stupid but Mexico and Canada are much more embedded in our economy.

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On 3/7/2025 at 9:43 AM, Bozo_Casanova said:

I believe the end game of all of this is to undermine the global role of the dollar. 

Appears to be working. DXY down 4% since Trump 2.0. He is making the US economy ideal for recession and stagflation. The narrowing yield gap between the US and other economies is creating additional pressure on the strength of the USD. 

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JD’s accelerationist sponsors are overjoyed with their investment. 

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4 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

Appears to be working. DXY down 4% since Trump 2.0. He is making the US economy ideal for recession and stagflation. The narrowing yield gap between the US and other economies is creating additional pressure on the strength of the USD. 

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JD’s accelerationist sponsors are overjoyed with their investment. 

Fucking hell.  I should have bought a fuckload of GBPs a couple of weeks ago.  Was trading at $1.26 5 days ago, now it's at $1.29.  If it goes down to $1.28, I'm buying a shitton (as I have significant obligations that have to be paid in GBP).

Goddammit, I'm kicking myself.

Of course, I'm also glad that much of my dad's estate is in actual real property and CDs (he'd gotten a lot of stuff out of the market).  

And yeah, I may start buying gold.

Or lead.  In bullet form.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Of course, I'm also glad that much of my dad's estate is in actual real property and CDs (he'd gotten a lot of stuff out of the market).  

Presumably he had the entire Freedom Rock anthology?

Hey, Man! Is that Freedom Rock? (and costs) | Steve Hoffman Music Forums

Well turn it up, man. Cause we got freedoms. The best freedoms. Nobody has ever seen such freedoms. 

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On 3/5/2025 at 10:04 AM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


Canadians buy 76 million dollars worth of American whiskey every year and 965 million dollars worth of American alcoholic beverages every year.

American breweries and distilleries are having a hard enough time as it is.

American breweries’ loss is Elsinore’s gain

 

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On 3/6/2025 at 11:13 AM, David Dennison said:

He's a Republican. Anything to get votes. Once in office, then the real work of making the rich richer begins. 

It's been the GOP playbook for decades and it works in cycles.

 

As opposed to the Democrat playbook of solving income inequality evidenced by what exactly?

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6 minutes ago, RockwallJim said:

As opposed to the Democrat playbook of solving income inequality evidenced by what exactly?

Support for progressive income tax rates, for one.

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32 minutes ago, RockwallJim said:

As opposed to the Democrat playbook of solving income inequality evidenced by what exactly?

Evidenced literally by the decrease in income inequality during Biden’s administration.

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80% of elder care workers are immigrants. That's wild. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/business/economy/immigrant-workers-deportation-fears.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k4.IxDx.DGGL-sPilALh&smid=url-share

A Chill Sets In for Undocumented Workers, and Those Who Hire Them

Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen.

Spoiler

The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, almost all from Latin America and undocumented — would be scooped up by local contractors in pickup trucks for jobs painting, landscaping, removing debris.

In recent weeks, the tracks have been desolate. On a gray February morning, a laborer named Mario, who came from Mexico two decades ago, said it was the quietest he could remember.

“Because of the president, we have a fear,” said Mario, 55, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that only his first name would be used because he is undocumented. His two sons are also in the United States illegally; one works in paving, the other in home construction. “We are in difficult times,” he said.

This scene has been playing out on the streets of Freehold, on the farms of California’s Central Valley, in nursing homes in Arizona, in Georgia poultry plants and in Chicago restaurants.

President Trump has broadcast plans for a “mass deportation,” and the opening weeks of his second term have brought immigration enforcement operations in cities across the United States, providing a daily drumbeat of arrests that, while so far relatively limited, are quickly noted in group chats among migrants.

Fear has gripped America’s undocumented workers. Many are staying home.

The impact is being felt not only in immigrant homes and communities, but also in the industries that rely on immigrants as a source of willing and inexpensive labor, including residential construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality. American consumers will soon feel the pain.

“Businesses across industries know what comes next when their work force disappears — restaurants, coffee shops and grocery stores struggling to stay open, food prices soaring, and everyday Americans demanding action,” said Rebecca Shi, chief executive of the American Business Immigration Coalition.

An estimated 20 percent of the U.S. labor force is foreign born, and millions of immigrant workers lack legal immigration status.

Hundreds of thousands more have been shielded from deportation and have work permits under a program called temporary protected status, offered to nationals of countries in upheaval, which has enabled corporate giants like Amazon and large commercial builders to hire them. But Mr. Trump has already announced that he will phase out the program, starting with Venezuelan and Haitian beneficiaries.

Refugees from around the globe, who have settled in the United States after fleeing persecution, have supplied a steady pipeline of low-skilled labor for poultry plants, warehouses and manufacturing. But that pipeline could dry up since Mr. Trump shut down the U.S. refugee program. Last month, a federal judge restored it temporarily while a lawsuit is pending, but the program remains at a standstill and no refugees are arriving.

The White House did not respond to questions about the strategy of deportations and how the Trump administration envisions filling the gaps left behind by the immigrant work force.

Leaders of industries that are the most exposed warn that the impact will be widespread, with far-reaching consequences for consumers and employers.

Kezia Scales, vice president at PHI, a national research and advocacy organization focused on long-term care for older adults and people with disabilities, said her industry was already facing a “recruitment crisis.”

“If immigrants are prevented from entering this work force or are forced to leave the country by restrictive immigration policies and rhetoric,” she said, “we will face systems collapse and catastrophic consequences for millions of people who rely on these workers.”

Warning of Higher Costs

In construction, up to 19 percent of all workers are undocumented, according to independent estimates — and the share is higher in many states. Their contribution is even more pronounced in residential construction, where industry leaders have warned of an acute labor shortage.

“Any removals of construction workers is going to exacerbate that problem,” said Nik Theodore, a professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. “Inevitably, it will slow the work, which leads to cost increases, because of the production delays.” This would have a profound impact on the construction industry and everybody involved, from developers to private homeowners, Mr. Theodore said.

In commercial construction, a tightening labor market would raise costs because of upward pressure on wages, said Zack Fritz, an economist with Associated Builders and Contractors, a national construction trade association.

The group’s chief executive, Michael D. Bellaman, said he welcomed many aspects of what he deemed Mr. Trump’s “deregulation, pro-growth agenda.” But he and others in the industry also called for an overhaul of the immigration system, including by expanding work visas.

Commercial building relies on many workers with temporary protected status, Mr. Bellaman said; some have been in the industry for decades.

The mayor of Houston, John Whitmire, said people who think his city and the country can thrive without the labor of undocumented immigrants “don’t live in the real world.”

“You know who’s paving our roads and building our houses,” said Mr. Whitmire, a Democrat.

Challenges in Elder Care

The senior care industry faces a similar challenge: growing demand for workers, and not enough native-born Americans to do the work. Those jobs have increasingly been filled by immigrants with varying legal statuses.

Adam Lampert has spent 15 years in the industry in Texas, mainly managing care for the parents of baby boomers. The business is thriving — and a silver tsunami is on the horizon, he warns: The number of adults 65 or older in the United States totaled 60 million in 2022, and is projected to exceed 80 million by 2050.

“Baby boomers are yet to wash through the system, and they will be a full new generation we will have to address,” said Mr. Lampert, the chief executive of Manchester Care Homes and Cambridge Caregivers, based in Dallas.

Some 80 percent of his caregivers are foreign born. “We don’t go out looking for people who are immigrants,” he said. “We go out hiring people who answer the call — and they are all immigrants.”

Everyone he hires has permission to lawfully work in the United States, he said, but if the mass deportations promised by Mr. Trump materialize, recruitment will become tougher in an industry already struggling with it.

There are five million people working directly with clients in what is considered the formal senior care industry, made up of those who can legally hold jobs in the United States.

In New York, two-thirds of those working in homes are foreign-born, as are nearly half in California and Maryland. Countless others take part in the vast gray market, potentially worth billions of dollars, employed by families who hire in-home aides, many of them undocumented, by word of mouth or online.

The caregivers in private homes support seniors with essential activities of daily life, helping them eat, dress, bathe and use the toilet. They escort them to doctors’ appointments and manage their medications. It is low-skill, low-pay work, but requires a certain temperament, physical strength and patience.

If tens of thousands of undocumented caregivers were deported, there would be more competition for fewer caregivers, experts say. The cost of in-home care would climb.

Often green card holders and U.S. citizens have undocumented family members, and these mixed-status families have been under strain as immigration crackdowns have intensified.

Molly Johnson, general manager of FirstLight Home Care, a licensed agency in California, has rapidly expanded her roster of caregivers to meet galloping demand since starting the business five years ago. All her workers have passed background checks, she said, and are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.

But recently, one of the standout caregivers, a native-born American, suddenly quit because her mother was detained by immigration agents. The person she cared for was distraught.

“Unfortunately, we are going to be seeing more of this trickle-down effect,” Ms. Johnson said. “If it’s not our caregiver, it’s their loved one impacted by enforcement actions.”

A Test for Growers

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the immigrant men and women employed at Deardorff Family Farms in Oxnard, Calif. — and across the country, in vast fields and food processing plants — were anointed “essential workers” by the government.

Like other growers, Tom Deardorff, who runs the vegetable farm, printed cards for his workers to show law enforcement officers, in case they were stopped on their way to the fields, declaring that the Department of Homeland Security considered them “critical to the food supply chain.” Their immigration status was not of concern.

“These people have come into our country to do this work,” said Mr. Deardorff, a fourth-generation grower. “We owe them not just ‘thank you.’ We owe them the common decency and dignity to not be threatened by government draconian penalties.”

Now, with Mr. Trump in the White House, many immigrants who harvest strawberries, vegetables and citrus in this agriculture-rich stretch of Southern California face possible detention and deportation.

The U.S. farming sector has suffered a labor shortage for decades. Immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Central America, have filled the void: Farmers say they cannot find American-born laborers to do the strenuous work. More than 40 percent of the nation’s crop workers are immigrants without legal status, according to estimates by the Department of Agriculture, yet many have lived in the United States for decades.

“The argument that some have made, from time immemorial, is that people will do these jobs if all the immigrants leave,” said Janice Fine, a professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University. “But there is no guarantee that employers will raise wages or improve working conditions.”

She said there had been a “misunderstanding of the labor market.” The reason American citizens aren’t in the agriculture sector — or elder care, or residential construction — isn’t solely about money, she said. These jobs, she said, “are low-wage, low-status, high-exploitation unless workers organize unions.”

A three-day crackdown in California’s Central Valley in January, before Mr. Trump took office, showed the potential effects of large-scale enforcement in farming areas. Absenteeism soared after Border Patrol agents conducted sweeps in Bakersfield. They stopped and arrested people at a Home Depot, at gas stations and along a heavily trafficked route to farms, according to the Nisei Farmers League, a grower association.

Some 30 to 40 percent of workers failed to report to the fields in the days that followed, according to the league, which represents about 500 growers and packers.

Gregory K. Bovino, a Border Patrol chief in Southern California, called the operation an “overwhelming success” that resulted in the arrests of 78 people in the country illegally, including some with “serious criminal histories.” Farmworker advocates said many others without criminal records had been rounded up, too.

Bracing for More Raids

Migrants and advocacy organizations are bracing for more raids.

In Princeton, N.J., one rainy February evening, around a dozen day laborers gathered for a meeting with Resistencia en Acción, a New Jersey group focused on immigrant workers, part of a sprawling organization called the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

The workers had different immigration statuses — some had temporary protected status or other forms of protection; others were undocumented. They worked as drivers and pavers, in restaurants and in mechanic shops. One man, who worked in a window factory, said he was terrified that federal agents would come to his workplace, where dozens of other Latin American immigrants toiled. Others said they had been working fewer hours in recent weeks, out of fear.

One man, who said he worked chopping fish, fruits and vegetables for a small grocery store, wondered aloud: “What white person is going to do these jobs?”

 

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80% of elder care workers are immigrants. That's wild. 


We just put my MIL in assisted living over in Northwest Hills. Outside of management, 100% of the staff are from Jamaica and other Caribbean countries.
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On 3/7/2025 at 9:05 AM, CooterBrown said:

I moved half of my retirement to gold (GLD) a week ago. That's had a slight profit since then.  It'll stay stable or increase unless the nukes drop.  This week, I moved another 25% to Fidelity's money market account (SPAXX) that is returning 4.x%. I'm okay with that return for 2025.  I have roughly 20% in the S&P 500 (FXAIX) and 5% still in tech (VGT).  I was in FXAIX & VGT for over 15 years with no complaints.  I was hoping to stay in that mix for 6 more years until retirement.

I ordered a bucket of pinto beans that will last 25 years and I'm planting potatoes. Pretty much the same thing.

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On 3/7/2025 at 10:00 AM, Pig Bellmont said:

It’s depressing how this is probably the correct answer- that combined with a healthy “Jews control the banks, so let’s screw them while making money on manipulating crypto”. Otherwise I can’t make much sense of him railing against (((globalists)))

 

I know it's probably reflex or a poor choice of b-roll, but her nodding as he blames the globalists is almost criminal and/or comical. Well, of course, we all know that's true. 

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