{"id":16272,"date":"2018-04-02T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascaleditions.com\/peterthomassimon\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2018-04-28T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T15:10:51","slug":"down-on-the-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascaleditions.com\/peterthomassimon\/down-on-the-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Down On The Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bOne of the difficulties of carrying on any sort of intelligent, as opposed to apocalyptic, discussion of Trump&#8217;s policies lies in the fact that the press paint everything he says, does, or is, in only Satanic colors. This is obvious in the latest <em>New York Times<\/em> hit piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/01\/opinion\/trump-tariffs-agriculture-economy.html\">&#8220;Will Trump Crash The Farm Economy?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0The article leads off with highly farm-related matters like\u200b, quote, &#8220;the president\u2019s alleged infidelities with a porn actress, his ties to Russia, Jared Kushner\u2019s real estate shenanigans, administration scandals about wife beaters, Saudi princes, Ben Carson\u2019s table or Scott Pruitt\u2019s soundproof room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now if<em> I<\/em> were a farmer, would Scott Pruitt&#8217;s soundproof room be the main concern I had affecting  my cash crops?  Probably not. But, hey, not everything Trump does necessarily turns out well.\u00a0 Maybe Trump&#8217;s policies <em>will<\/em> hurt farmers.\u00a0 So I read the piece, which assured me that America&#8217;s breadbasket would shortly turn into the Gobi Desert, and then asked myself, for balance&#8217;s sake, what the opposing case might be.\u00a0 Two sides to every story, right?<\/p>\n<p>So off I went to Google to see what advocates who favored Trump&#8217;s farm policies had to say. There were no advocates.  There was no balancing case. Every last article I came across for <em>five solid pages<\/em> of Google results bashed the President from top to bottom, generally leading, like the <em>Times<\/em> piece, with the President\u2019s alleged infidelities, alleged subservience to Moscow, alleged indifference to wife-beating, alleged racism, alleged misogyny, alleged closet white nationalism, and all the other alleged things that keep wheat from growing in the Heartland.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know if Trump&#8217;s farm policies will prove good or ill. Only that intelligent discussion is not possible when Trump is treated like a Polish Jew in the 30&#8217;s by a press that comports itself like the Nazi Press Office. The one and only actual <em>statement<\/em> of Trump&#8217;s farm policies I could find, as opposed to Freddie-Krueger-like assurances of the blood-letting to come, appeared on whitehouse.gov (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/president-donald-j-trump-working-rebuild-rural-america\/\">https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/president-donald-j-trump-working-rebuild-rural-america\/<\/a>) and that was not compelling either: policy advocates are generally about as disinterested as policy opponents, although at least the White House page is blessedly <em>blessedly<\/em> free of the personal insult, off-topic material, and general meanness of spirit permeating the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; press, which reflects actual mainstream opinion about Trump about as much as the Quran reflects LPGA golf rankings.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, for all the doom anticipated and all the quoted farmers expressing the direst possible forebodings, even the <em>Times<\/em> piece concedes that Trump won over 60% of the rural vote in Iowa. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/rural-america-lifted-trump-to-the-presidency-support-is-strong-but-not-monolithic\/2017\/06\/16\/df4f9156-4ac9-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.4c641bc01378\">Washington Post<\/a> elsewhere notes, &#8220;In the 2,332 counties that make up small-town and rural America, he [Trump] swamped his Democratic rival, winning 60 percent of the vote to Clinton\u2019s 34 percent. Trump\u2019s 26-point advantage over Clinton in rural America far exceeded the margins by which Republican nominees had won those voters in the four previous elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why did Trump win the rural vote? The invariably urban commentators tend to lay the blame on the sheer backward stupidity of rural residents, but a nearly two to one margin suggests that other things may be at issue, particularly since, as we know, intelligence is merely a social construct, and any inner city gang-banger is at least as intellectually astute as your average Rotarian. Maybe the voters in small towns aren&#8217;t purely obsessed with economic concerns; or maybe, seeing the actual results of Trump&#8217;s policies on other parts of the economy, they not unreasonably expect the same to occur to their sector too.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/commentary\/trump-economy-gdp-growth-unemployment\/\">Investors Business Daily<\/a>\u00a0observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><em><strong>Has Anyone Noticed That Trump&#8217;s Economy Keeps Beating Expectations?<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<h5><em> JOHN MERLINE<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>ADP reported that payrolls &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; climbed 190,000 in November, while analysts had predicted 185,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Consumer confidence &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; hit a 17-year high in November.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Labor costs &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; fell in the third quarter while productivity surged. Economists thought costs would edge up by 0.3%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Retail sales in October &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; rose. Economists had expected them to be flat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These are pulled just from headlines of the past few weeks. But the trend started almost as soon as President Trump took office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Normally, it takes months for a new administration&#8217;s economic policies to take effect. But there was a sharp surge in business and consumer optimism, and the stock market has been on an upward trajectory, since the day Trump got elected. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The IBD\/TIPP Economic Optimism Index has been in positive territory for 15 months straight. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s more, Trump was able to take immediate executive action on regulations, which sent a signal to businesses, markets and consumers alike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now it appears that overall economic growth for the entire year could be, you guessed it, &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Friday, the government will release the unemployment figures for November. But at 4.1%, the unemployment rate is already &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; low. The consensus was that unemployment would average 4.6% for the year, but it&#8217;s been under 4.6% since March.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the start of the year, economists were in widespread agreement that inflation-adjusted GDP would grow 2% to 2.3%. The National Association of Business Economists survey put it at 2.2%. The Congressional Budget Office predicted growth would be 2.3%, as did Trump&#8217;s own economists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But annualized growth was 3.1% in the second quarter and 3.3% in the third. The Atlanta Fed&#8217;s GDPNow measure, which includes economic data available for the fourth quarter up to this point, currently stands at 3.2%. If that holds for the quarter [it did], then growth for the year would be above 2.3%. (It would also mark the first time the economy has put together three straight quarters of 3% or higher growth since 2005.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All of this marks a sharp turnaround from the past eight years when, under President Obama&#8217;s economic stewardship, GDP growth <strong>never once<\/strong> came close to meeting the consensus forecasts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Curiously, although the suicide rate in rural areas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2016\/12\/09\/daily-202-trump-over-performed-the-most-in-counties-with-the-highest-drug-alcohol-and-suicide-mortality-rates\/584a2a59e9b69b7e58e45f2e\/?utm_term=.1a61ec433a15\">skyrocketed under Obama<\/a>, and although life expectancy in those areas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2016\/12\/09\/daily-202-trump-over-performed-the-most-in-counties-with-the-highest-drug-alcohol-and-suicide-mortality-rates\/584a2a59e9b69b7e58e45f2e\/?utm_term=.1a61ec433a15\">plunged<\/a> for the first time in recorded history, and although the areas with the highest such levels of despair overwhelmingly voted for Trump, I can&#8217;t&#8211;<em>surprise!<\/em>&#8211;find a single study examining what the triumph of the candidate supported by rural voters two to one might have done to affect that rate. I would imagine it would be something of a pick-me-up.\u00a0 Of course the sound levels in Scott Pruitt&#8217;s room take precedence, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, though, when I recall that a Nobel-winning economist like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2017\/10\/20\/gutfeld_paul_krugman_deserves_another_nobel_prize_for_being_this_wrong_about_trump.html\">Paul Krugman<\/a> could, with a straight face, say that the election of Trump would not only crash the stock market but crash it so thoroughly that<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2017\/10\/20\/gutfeld_paul_krugman_deserves_another_nobel_prize_for_being_this_wrong_about_trump.html\">it would never rise again<\/a><\/em>, I find myself having to view headlines like &#8220;Will Trump Crash The Farm Economy&#8221; with a grain of salt. True, when it comes to economic stagnation, and the destruction of rural lives and communities, Trump simply cannot match the performance of the ineffable Obama; but the ballot box told the story in 2016, and numbers like the above are telling us more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>&#8220;will&#8221;<\/em> happen, in the heated imagination of those who seem to prefer the worst possible outcomes in whatever Trump touches, is apparently not what <em>is<\/em> happening. Which is why the apocalyptic scenarios may disquiet those who expect the worst already, but leave most of the rest of us untouched.\u00a0 There is always a certain comfort in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bOne of the difficulties of carrying on any sort of intelligent, as opposed to apocalyptic, discussion of Trump&#8217;s policies lies in the fact that the press paint everything he says, does, or is, in only Satanic colors. 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