I went to read the article, but it was behind a paywall. So, I searched and found "Tariffs Will Simply Put Us All Out of Business: Trump's Trade War Is Crushing American Crafters" which wasn't.
And, it was stuff I knew. Two weeks ago I linked to an article about how Europe and others were going to stop sending mail to the U.S., and I felt like I had gotten the yarn for eldest nephew's Christmas sweater just in time. I had. Because the issue is the way smaller boutique yarn companies have been doing business is now going to be hit with these stupid tariffs.
In the knitting/crochet community, this regime was unpopular the first time around. This isn't going to make us any happier.
You wouldn't think the yarn community would be all that progressive. And, like any community, there are people on both sides of the political spectrum. But there is a very strong liberal group among us. We weren't happy before. This isn't going to help.
It's like this regime wants to destroy all that made us content. Happy. In an effort to appease their elderly, failing leader.
I'm just going to grumble some more over here. Like I've been doing.
Ugh! Grumble grumble.
ReplyDeleteGrumbling along with you. Not about yarn, about the vaccines. Which my pharmacy doesn't have on their online scheduler anymore. Pharmacists are doctors, and mine always prescribes my vaccines. At least until now. Hopefully the West Coast Health Alliance our states are both part of will fix that.
ReplyDeleteBut America is so great with him in office!
ReplyDeleteThe Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
I know you didn't intend this to be a grumble session on vaccines, but I'm old enough to remember polio and the measles and even scarlet fever. One of my uncles was a public health doctor. How strange (being sarcastic) that we have gone from the anti-Covid vaccine "my body my choice" cry to "we will make it as difficult as possible for anyone who wants a vaccine to get one and we don't care if a vaccine is their choice". Two weeks ago I checked my local pharmacy and I would have needed a prescription for the Covid vaccine (noting that I am over 65). Now, thanks to our governor in New York, we can (at least temporarily) get it without a prescription. If my uncle was still alive, I don't know what he would have thought.
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