Just waiting for the outrage when ICE goes into meat and chicken

[no_hypocrisy]

packing facilities. If not from the corporations, but from consumers when ground beef becomes scarce and costs $12.99 a pound in the supermarkets.

[Lovie777]

1. The fear is there...............

prices are going upward, and the eggs are higher.

[Oneear]

2. Donald J. Trump will make Open Jobs in Meat Packing Plants

The problem is there is No one with the Skills to take these Jobs

[Maraya1969]

6. The skills? Or were you being sarcastic?

[Swede]

7. Can you start cutting meat tomorrow?

All jobs need skills.

[BoRaGard]

10. I hope so. I worked at a butcher counter for a while.

Like every trade, it requires education and skill to do it right.

[Itchinjim]

36. I worked 25 years in a meat packing plant.

And yes skills and no they're not being sarcastic.
Nice way to win over the working class.

[Maraya1969]

52. Oh for crying out loud. I know every job requires training, even if you

are cutting lawns. But it is not like you need to spends years or get a PHD for them. And that is not a judgement on anyone who works them.

I could never be a butcher or work in a meat packing plant. I can't even cut up a chicken because raw meat makes me gag. I know these people do hard jobs that many other people would not or could not do.

[Mysterian]

61. Then be goddamned glad there are those with skills and fortitude you lack

and stop denigrating them.

[lapfog_1]

51. Have you every tried to cut and package meat using a high speed production line

without cutting your own fingers off?

I haven't.

But when I was a teen, my father had me do all kinds of "menial" jobs like bailing hay, cutting weeds from soybeans before harvest, picking strawberries, and as a installer of iron fencing ( welder's assistant ).

They all require skill, some were dangerous.

He had me do these jobs to both respect the people that do them and to motivate me to complete my education so I could work a desk job instead.

[ajmstpete]

30. Yes skills and an excellent work ethic.

Working in a beef packing plant is not at all like working at a grocery store or butcher. They are working side by side others handling knives making the same cuts over and over all damn shift long with line speeds that are ridiculous and grade changes. Go sit outside a processing plant at shift change and see who is working there. They work their asses off all day, every day.

[eppur_se_muova]

47. The problem is they are dangerous, exhausting, tedious, and VERY LOW PAYING jobs with no benefits ...

... and very little oversight of horrible working conditions. Employers are completely reliant on immigrant labor to keep these industries running. tsf may very well have just crippled their business for months to come, even if the actions are immediately rescinded.

[Dumpy]

60. Are there special overseas schools for meat cutting that the USA lacks?

[haele]

63. The problem is that there are too many young Americans with "superior genes "

Who are "too good" to do such menial work as meat packing, agricultural, piece manufacturing, or roofing.
They're perfectly fine swaggering around wearing a badge, being heros in their own mind, or playing video games working a "management" or independent job that gives them a chance for long breaks or socializing time.

But manual labor is for Manuel, not Daddy and Mommy's Golden Boy...

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. I feel that this is the point.

They are being very public about this. They are showing that things will only be okay for us if we fall down and obese before the orange gibbon. They want the outrage. It is sweet as nectar to them. And they know that they will always be able to get meat. They can afford it regardless of any price increases. As to the rest?

They don't care. Which is why I don't care about them. I despise this development, as I am always trying to be a humanist. The issue is, their behavior shows me that they do not deserve to be referred to as 'human'.

[Walleye]

41. Unfortunately, they are very human. That is our problem. Selfish

[OldBaldy1701E]

67. Very true.

I cannot argue with that, as history shows it enough times.

I can hope that we will finally have our 'Star Trek' moment and stop with all the pettiness. The heights we could reach if we would just stop trying to outdo each other over petty greed and even pettier egos.

[Think. Again.]

4. Yep, it won't be the fact that...

...our government is rounding people up and putting them in camps that angers people, it'll be the price of hamburgers.

[AllyCat]

28. Exactly. The only thing that matters to these inhuman monsters who

Supported Trumsk is money. And it will come for us all.

[SallyHemmings]

5. I work for a major soup company

80% of the employees did not show up on Tuesday.

Buckle up.

[BoRaGard]

12. Whoa Nelly!

[tanyev]

27. Wow. Do you know if the CEO/top executives supported Trump?

[SallyHemmings]

64. I got a sense that the now gone President was not a fan.

Not sure about the rest...

In my department, I would say it's a split.

[underpants]

8. So far they are only going after blue states.

Nebraska (meat packing central) is openly talking about just letting anyone ANYONE come there to fill the spots.

NPR report this week. Nebraska has 39 bodies to fill every 100 jobs in meat packing as it is.

[Irish_Dem]

14. So red states will be able to keep immigrant labor?

It will just be the blue states that suffer?

[bronxiteforever]

21. That is the GOP game. Just like

GOP insiders called the last Trump tax scheme the “destroy the Democratic Party” tax. They targeted the local tax deductions to destroy cities.

Also I am sure that contributors to the GOP, I mean King Trump, will pay their protection price to the powers that be. The GOP will run a mafia type government with plenty of opportunities at the feeding trough for the “right people”.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Yes the GOP is not a political party, it is a crime syndicate.

Yes Trump is King or Emperor running a protection racket.

[underpants]

54. It looks that way so far.

As tishLA posted below, North Carolina will be interesting to watch. The Smithfield Packing plant in Tar Heel NC “processes” and average of 30,000 pigs every day and they openly advertise for workers on the Mexican border - if you can get there, you’ll have a job.

Trump is going to Western NC soon to bathe in their misery. Dem Governor but hard Republican in a lot of ways.

[tishaLA]

23. States like N Carolina are going to be interesting litmus tests

Lots and lots of meat production, a fairly large undocumented community, a just barely red state that relies on that industry economically....

[Bengus81]

29. Tyson is huge in Arkansas and Kansas has meat packing plants galore

Most in the far western part of the State. Let's see Trump go after both of those.

[underpants]

43. Yes it will. Virginia too especially if we (hopefully) get a Dem governor

Eastern shore has always been migrant labor, seafood has lots of undocumented as well does the chicken rendering plants in the Shenandoah Valley.

[AllyCat]

50. WI too.

Dem governor but both legislative houses are Repuke controlled.

[lame54]

66. Sooooo - instead of leaving the country...

They will fill the red states
Maga dream

[modrepub]

9. I'm Interested If ICE Is Targeting Only Blue Areas

To cause economic disruption only in areas where Dems are in office.

[Irish_Dem]

15. That could be the plan.

To punish and bankrupt blue states.

[Bengus81]

33. When meat goes sky high it puts a big HURT on Mickey D's, Wendy's etc

FUCK em,hope it kills their bottom line.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Trump will bail out and help companies who pay him protection money.

The corporations think they can buy their way out of all of this.

[happy feet]

42. Yes

The orange felon had publicly stated he is targeting blue states

[MayReasonRule]

11. I Already Pay $8.99 - $12.99 Per Pound For USDA Organic Grass-Fed Ground Beef

... on the rare occasion I purchase ground beef...

[elocs]

13. This is a bummer for me because I eat the carnivore dietary lifestyle, almost entirely meat.

Yes, you can stock up on things, but prepping is really only short term, maybe a few weeks or months for a disaster.
Realistically, next to nobody will be able to stock up for a year, 2 years, 4 years.
America will come to know third world hunger. Well, this will cure our obesity and diabetes epidemic.

[no_hypocrisy]

25. We'll be replicating the infamous food lines

in pre-Glastnos Russia.

[marble falls]

17. Pretty well said.

[live love laugh]

19. THEY can afford $12.99/lb ground beef. That's all they care about.

[Bettie]

45. But, they will cut the pay of their kitchen staff

to make up for it, because rich people will be mad that the food budget it higher, so they'll take it out of the staff's wages.

[Lovie777]

20. The fact of only targeting blue states will still harms red states......................

as well. Tariffs itself will hurt red states too. As Mr. Spock would say "illogical".

[Diraven]

22. Tyson Foods HQ is in my town

Also several chicken processing plants staffed primarily by immigrants (though the companies deny it, it's an open secret). We're going to be hit hard.

[LiberalArkie]

24. They are already swarming all over Waltonville and Tysontown in Arkansas. (Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers)

Per local media.

ERO in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles.

For those who want to read. https://www.reddit.com/r/bentonville/comments/1i89cuw/possible_ice_in_benton_county/

[Bengus81]

31. Is Huckafuck going to put on her cowboy boots and skirt and put a stop to it?

Can't wait to see how that plays out.

[LiberalArkie]

35. Uh, why do you think she wants to build those new prisons?

[sinkingfeeling]

32. I loved the Hispanic grocery store in Springdale. And the bakeries there.

I truly miss the real 'Mexican' restaurants as well, since I moved to farmland Illinois.
Seemed like we lived in harmony between the races. I don't understand the problem TSF sees.

[LiberalArkie]

38. A lot of may be that the large home construction businesses can't compete to build a home. They have

to get rid of the small home builders (migrants) to stay in business. Probably the poultry and meat processing unions want them gone so they can get the work at higher wages.

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Who's going to put roofs on houses in Benton county without the

immigrants?

[LiberalArkie]

44. Don't worry just call up the most expensive place in Benton county.

When I was going to a gym in Little Rock a couple of the guys that were always next to me were in home construction and were always complaining about the Mexicans always under cutting them. They said they could not compete with them as they charged half of what they did.

Oh there will be plenty of places. Just expect to have to pay a lot more with the insurance only picking up less than half of the cost.

[sinkingfeeling]

48. I had the roof on my big Victorian replaced twice in the 30 years I lived there. I had 12 roofers decline the

job because the roof was "too steep". Both times an Anglo guy did the estimates and the job was done by an all immigrant crew.

[LiberalArkie]

49. Yep... Weird ain't it.

[3Hotdogs]

37. A seafood plant in Newark, NJ was raided yesterday.

The local outrage is because US citizens were also detained.

[Luz]

39. I can't wait for the outrage when the owners of

these businesses get arrested for their hiring practices. Oh, wait, they're probably rich Republicans. Never mind.

[eppur_se_muova]

46. To control costs, it will be "necessary" to furlough all USDA inspectors and just rush the product through.

I suspect this was in the plan before the raids started.

[CanonRay]

53. Tyson Foods and Koch Foods will each send Trump 5 million

and then those raids won't happen.

[LeftInTX]

59. I'm sure Tyson already has. He knows his donors.

He's gonna raid taquerias and taco trucks.

[ananda]

55. The question is: will white people do those jobs?

And even if some of them do, will it be enough?

[Johnny2X2X]

56. Pay to play

These places will just have to learn to bribe the right Trump officials.

Blue states and cities are going to be targeted first. If a corporation donated to the Trump campaign, they'll do whatever they like as long as they keep donating to other Trump associates.

[republianmushroom]

57. Them chicken nuggets are going to get smaller and the price higher. Enjoy.

[LeftInTX]

58. Is Trump gonna raid his corporate donors?

[Mysterian]

62. Only blue states being targeted

Weird, huh?