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To: Angels27
My Illinois Farm Bureau newspaper was urging readers to vote against Republicans in the midterms because of the market outlook.

Trump may have pulled off a good deal with Japan. Can't remember the product(s), think maybe ethanol, pork and soybeans.

Trump prefers bilateral trade agreements rather than multiple-participatant trade deals but was talking getting back in the TPP, hopefully on better terms for us.

After people started being able to buy into Obamacare, there was a letter published from a reader who raved about it and told how awful it had been before with medical insurance.

Years ago I was one of those people who couldn't get medical insurance anywhere so joined the IL Farm Bureau and got a policy but was soon dumped. They all dumped me if I was able to get ins so I had to do without for many years. I didn't politicize it though.

"Apr 5, 2018 - If farmers are worried, so are Republican politicians, who depended on small-town America to hand them control of Congress and know how quickly those voters could take it away. Just seven months before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump's faceoff with China over trade has exposed an unexpected ..." Source ilfb.org

So take it for what it's worth.

16 posted on 04/21/2018 6:37:57 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska
Farmers are 3-4% of the US population. Consumers are 100% of the population. Bring on the lower prices for food!

IMO Agriculture(ethanol lobby) and farmers are way over represented in US politics mainly because the Iowa primaries is so early. If we could ditch that it would be a start. Get rid of subsidies and watch artificially high prices fall.

45 posted on 04/22/2018 4:13:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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