For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By July—just months after Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs—they made the decision to shut the…
You miss understand these people. They own a mill. They have wealth, to them its “oh well it sucks on to the next thing.” Look how patriotic I am. It’s the employees at these places that are suffering.
Yeah the article says they just laid off the 50 employees, put the factory in mothballs, and then got real sad. No one is liquidating their company’s assets let alone coming for their personal fortunes. It almost sounds like they wanted an excuse to retire and sell the assets at their leisure, and this gave them that opportunity…
if by some miracle any of those employees weren’t trump voters, then those employees were already suffering, being surrounded by trump voters
at least now they’re not alone in their suffering, and can say “told you so” or not, as they please…but they can go to bed without feelings of regret for their decisions, betrayed by someone they were convinced gave half a rat’s ass about them
Okay, to be fair, from what I understood they tried offering them jobs at the other mill, but only 10 accepted. I don’t know why - whether it was too far or something - but they tried to do right by their employees.
That doesn’t change the fact of being dense as fuck and still wanting to vote for the orange rapist, but yeah.