TKC MUST READ!!! KANSAS CITY CONGRESSMAN CLEAVER WARNS: PREZ TRUMP TRADE WAR STARTS NOW!!!



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Congressman Cleaver: President Trump's Trade War has Officially Begun

I want to thank John Cruickshank, the Canadian Consul General, for accepting my invitation to come to the Fifth District of Missouri on Monday and talk with constituents about our current trade situation and the recent tariffs. Farmers, businesses, and manufacturers are concerned about the effects of the tariffs on American exports, and that was exemplified by the many questions asked of myself and the Consul General.

They are right to be concerned about the outcome of what I believe we can call a trade war. This is their livelihood, their way of survival. One of the many questions I heard asked of Mr. Cruickshank during a public meeting on trade this past week in Higginsville, Missouri was, “Is this a done deal? Will the U.S. negotiate?”

President Trump has made his position clear. He imposed tariffs on goods from China, as well as our allies Canada, Mexico and the EU and they responded with their own tariffs on American products. There were no negotiations and there was no consulting or consideration to the people who would be affected the most, farmers and manufacturers who rely on exports for the continued success of their businesses.

We are already watching the results of President Trump’s “anti-trade” policies unfold, and the repercussions will reverberate in coming weeks and months as the markets respond, manufacturing plants close, and people lose their jobs. Commodity prices are falling and yet, people continue to say, “wait it out”. With soybean prices falling to $7.79 a bushel this week – the lowest in almost a decade - I’m not so sure our farmers in Missouri can wait. President Trump’s trade war has officially begun. The President followed through today with tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products, and immediately China has hit back with $34 billion in retaliatory tariffs on 545 U.S. products, including beef, soybeans and pork.

These new Chinese tariffs are a punch in the gut to Missouri’s economy. Agriculture provides about $88 billion in benefits each year to the state, and nearly one out of every three rows of soybeans in Missouri are sent to China. Missouri’s top agricultural commodity is now facing a 40 percent drop in prices over the last five years.

It is not a pretty picture as families sit around the table looking at their economic prospects. Farm income is down 50 percent compared to five years ago. Early this year Harley Davidson closed operations at its Kansas City plant – placing 800 people out of work – and recently the company announced it will move much of its American operations overseas due to the retaliatory tariffs from the EU.

Missouri--and the rest of the country for that matter--is already seeing the self-inflicted consequences of President Trump’s trade war. I only hope that rational minds within the administration will prevail before there are any more unnecessary casualties.

Warmly,

Emanuel Cleaver, II
Member of Congress
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Comments

  1. The President says he likes trade wars and they're easy to win. That's not a really great strategy and probably why his own companies have been bankrupted so many times.

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  2. Let's see. Trump's knowledge of international business vs. Cleaver's knowledge of international business. Hmmm. I think I will have to go with Trump on this rather than the Carwash King.

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  3. The only thing Cleave knows is how to default on a car wash loan.

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  4. Maybe someone should warn cleaver the end of the year comes in December and taxes are due. He shouldnt say a word to anyone let alone the president. He a career politician and has never made a thing for himself hopefully pple wise up and quit voting for these frauds

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  5. Glad to know we have a representative who is looking out for the overall benefit of other countries. Do you think we are enacting this policy for fun? We need to find balance to our trade deficits. Do your homework folks!

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  6. The Chinese are very concerned about unemployment, their society is not as stable as ours, they will make deal. We can live without their junk, they need our food.

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  7. I'm not worried about the farmers. They get billions in subsidies and loan and whatnot every year. The farmers are fine and well represented in DC.

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  8. Check out the picture closely. Cleaver is asleep. He kinds looks like Ruth Bader "Weekend At Bernies" Ginsburg.

    Look, you don't need a degree in economics to understand, that the Trade War, was won, long ago, by the EU, Mexico, Canada and most of all China.

    If your name is NOT Cleaver, you can do simple math. 800 billion dollar deficits with China. 150 billion or so with the others. That is because of Tariffs. Are there some complicated variables and considerations that need to be taken into the argument (Intellectual Property, etc etc) Sure. But these deficits are dramatic and they are killing our fuckin asses.

    It is time to fix this shit and Trump is the ONLY fuckin guy who will ever get it done. No politician had the nerve to stand up to these "friends" until now.

    What you can take to the bank is this. Cleaver couldn't count the fuckin quarters at the car wash past 3 bucks without help. Therefore folks, his 'advice' on macro economics should be taken with a k-2 size grain of salt.

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  9. 4:55 provide us one link, one, from a single economist that thinks the tariffs are a good idea. We are all going to pay for this, maybe vegetarians won't. Tariffs on beef and soybeans are going to hurt farmers, thus hurt is all. When China owns all your debt you can't win a fight against them. China could flood the market with bonds and start a great depression tomorrow. Obviously they won't but they hold all the cards. We won't win the trade war.

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  10. ^^^^ don’t be such a pussy

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  11. If beef exports to China diminish due to tariffs the smart thing for Americans to do is eat more beef. Should be cheaper with less demand. Buy a freezer and be a winner!

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  12. he doesn't know what he's talking about.

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  13. Trump knows absolutely shit. Nothing but a con artist who duped stupid Americans into voting for a "expert businessman" who declared bankruptcy 4 times, and had his rich daddy to bail him out. This guy has an enormous ego that shatters as soon as somebody hurts his feelings.

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  14. ^^^ You no idea what you are talking about.

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  15. Isn't Clever (sic) still in Higginsville with the Canadian rep taking potshots at America? Oh, maybe not. After all, he has a carwash to run to pay off overdue taxes, then back to DC to help GOVERN.

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  16. The good Reverend has forgotten how good the Trump economy is compared to eight years of an Obama economy.

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  17. ^^^^And I guess he's forgetting the great economy W. left behind as well?

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  18. What this swindling fake reverend won't mention is that black unemployment is at record lows. So is Latino unemployment. We will have had very close to 4.8% economic growth in the second quarter. Manufacturing jobs are coming back after St. Obama told us they wouldn't.

    Sorry, Cleaver. Your party is in freefall between actual communists and septuagenarian losers. You literally have given people no reason to vote for you. Which is why #walkaway is happening, especially among minorities.

    You're a cheating deceiver of your own people. Shame.

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  19. Cleavers just a bitter old man so people know not to expect much from the old geezer.

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  20. Most of America's trading "partners" declared trade wars against the U.S. years ago.

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  21. That's why their nukes are pointed towards the US. They can't intercept all of em'.

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  22. Cleavage is a member of the Deadbeatsocratic party, a pink donkey is their symbol, standing in a carwash of course. MAGA

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  23. Bring all the troops home from Europa, Asia and the Middlewaste. All debts are forgiven and erased, seal the boarders with the troops and go to a cash and carry trade policy. F__K the world for the next hundred years we are tried of carrying you.

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  24. I am Geezer, respect my authority!

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  25. I find it funny how people go right back to the BK with Trump. All of Atlantic City went BK, not Trump the entire place, but somehow its his fault. Banking laws changed and took away some advantages and only left potential loses for investors so they bailed and left President Trump holding the bag and he used the laws on the books and declared BK. We got a guy trying and creating jobs, please tell me before or hell while he was president what did obama bring to society? Jobs? Anything? or just a social justice warrior who sucked off the teet and wanted to make that teet larger and have everyone on the dole?????

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  26. Is jackson county judge r. standridge living in leawood ks in a big house while presiding as a Missouri judge

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  27. We're paying Do Nothing Cleaver $180,000 a year to write letters whining about his dislike for Trump. No one and I mean no one should listen to Cleaver about economics. If the man can not run a small car wash then what qualifies him to lecture us about the economy? If he really wants to help the economy, he'll pay back the $1.6 million loan from the gov't (SBA) that he defaulted on.

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  28. The cleave is so stupid, the Trade wars have been going on since billy boy helped to create them, the cleave is 25 years behind on his claim. Leave it to cleave to be “woke” after all the damage has already been done but god help us when somebody actually tries to fix it. His natural boon mentality is to give people money to make up for loses, that’s what the coloreds do, is demand free money to keep their big fat pie holes shut.

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  29. The Dems keep hustling the “Doom & Gloom”, remember how our stock market was going to crash if he won the election.....
    Or how trump would never get N Korea to the negotiating table...
    Or how a NUCLEAR WAR is in our future...
    Why is the truth so hard for the Left, fortunately for all of us we can think and we realize what the truth is. Thank You President Trump and thanks to the voters who saw the lies. If Hillary had won the election we would have never known how deep this hatred of Trump was and how our Republic was in danger. Hillary even cheated/ lies within her own party against Bernie Sanders. As the saying goes....If she will do it with you , she will do it against you. The point is don’t believe all the Reverend and others tell you, inform yourself so you don’t become a sheeple.

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  30. Still waiting for Manny C to do a-fucking-thing in congress. Still has never authored a bill...just bitches about Republicans at every chance.

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