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Amid a wave of unprecedented tariffs, anxiety is running high for truck drivers like Helen, who makes her living delivering cargo containers from the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors to warehouses and other customers around Southern California

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Empty shelves? Tariffs are about to hit US shoppers in a variety of ways.

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-- The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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Helen said that some of her fellow drivers had hoped for a better economy under Trump. Her own exposure is doubled because her husband also drives trucks to and from the ports. Because she is paid per load, Helen's income does not meet the minimum wage when there are too few jobs available.
"We feel like it's going to get worse before it gets better," she said. "You feel this looming uncertainty. It's hanging over everybody."

LOL!!

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-03 10:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Point and laugh at the magat scum

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-05-03 10:51 AM | Reply

Hard to think of a class of people Trump could not give less of a damn about that truck drivers.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-03 11:13 AM | Reply

They're probably brown so screw 'em.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-03 11:55 AM | Reply

The CEO Who Says an Asteroid Is Coming to Destroy America's Businesses

www.wsj.com

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-03 03:22 PM | Reply

Excellent article, REINHEITSGEBOT! Most Americans have no idea what's about to hit us as a result of Trump's tariffs.

The guy runs a company that does shipping logistics for 13,000 companies, many of them small American businesses.

He knows what he's talking about.

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This time, Petersen is explaining to anyone who will listen why hefty U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports could be catastrophic for America's small businesses.

"If they don't change the tariffs, it's going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event," he told me. "Only these aren't dinosaurs. These are dynamic, healthy businesses."
If the tariffs on Chinese goods continue at this rate, he says, thousands of American companies will fail and millions of employees will lose their jobs.

But since the tariffs took effect, ocean-freight bookings from China to the U.S. have dropped 60%, Petersen says. In response, containership operators are shrinking their boats and canceling trips altogether. It takes a while for downstream consequences to flow through the system"but logistics nerds can look at the data on their screens and see into the future.

If tariffs continue at this rate, Petersen says, it's only a matter of time before that asteroid hits.

But since the tariffs took effect, ocean-freight bookings from China to the U.S. have dropped 60%, Petersen says. In response, containership operators are shrinking their boats and canceling trips altogether. It takes a while for downstream consequences to flow through the system"but logistics nerds can look at the data on their screens and see into the future.

If tariffs continue at this rate, Petersen says, it's only a matter of time before that asteroid hits.

www.wsj.com

And for right wingers blaming Democrats for manufacturing moves to China, they should read up on the 2002 Bush tax cuts and learn how companies were given large tax incentives to move their manufacturing offshore.

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-03 04:45 PM | Reply

Republicans are destroying the economy on purpose.

The GOP is a Death Cult.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-03 04:54 PM | Reply

Thanks magat scum for destroying the world
You're vile despicable human beings

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-05-03 04:56 PM | Reply

Trump promised to destroy America's economy.

He's doing a fantastic job of it.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-03 05:26 PM | Reply

Short term pain for long term gain.
The trade deficits and resulting debt must be addressed or else Americans will end up picking cotton on Chinese-owned plantations.

#10 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-03 06:20 PM | Reply

Just a reminder that shitler's net worth has doubled since being elected

#11 | Posted by Truthhurts at 2025-05-03 06:59 PM | Reply

#10

Fuck off, retard

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-04 01:37 AM | Reply

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