Trump is about to drive America's largest nail maker out of business!

[Chimichurri]

America’s largest nail manufacturer, Mid-Continent Nail, located in a Missouri county that voted 79 percent for Trump, says it is shedding hundreds of jobs and will likely have to shut down by Labor Day.

The company, which produces half the nails manufactured in the U.S., uses imported material to produce the carpentry nails, and since Trump slapped a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports, the company has had to boost its prices. When they did that, sales immediately plummeted.

The company recently laid of 60 of its 500 employees and expects to lay off another 200 in the coming weeks.

https://shareblue.com/trump-tariffs-mid-continent-nail-out-of-business/#IndependenceDay

Trump really is destroying our country and it's a full on assault from every angle. The only winner here is Vladimir Putin

[dhol82]

1. WINNING!!!

[dalton99a]

2. More manufacturing layoffs to come

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. And in the end...

they got nailed. Vote Blue.

[Squinch]

4. Apparently the box company that supplies them is also laying off.

And they're all sad and shaking their heads and saying, "But he was supposed to ruin OTHER people's lives, not MINE!!!"

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Wasn't their owner a Trump guy?

I thought I heard that somewhere.

[Codeine]

6. "He was only supposed to screw over the

scary black people!”

[spanone]

7. Soon trump will be shitting on them like he has on Harley-Davidson

[SonofDonald]

8. Half the nails made in America

So now it'll be around a $100 bill for a box of sinkers.

Used to be around $60 when I banged them in.

New home prices just went up again.

Lovely

[Chimichurri]

9. Yes and all for nothing. Trump starts fires then

Claims he put them out when everything has burned to the ground. I'm still trying to understand what his goal here is

[SonofDonald]

10. There is no goal

It's all just chaos, from a thing with a ten second attention span.

[Fozzledick]

16. Putin's goal is to destroy the U.S. economy.

Trump is just doing what Putin has paid him to do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. Putin's goal: undermine America to make it weaker.

blow the budget by massive debt, and massive unemployment.

You would think that at some point Republican business owners would start to wonder where their money is gonna come from.

remember there is a strong undercurrent belief that America is overpopulated. Kissinger used to harp on that all the time, he and his minions have not given up on the idea.

[workinclasszero]

11. Fox & Friends will blame the plant closing

on Hillary’s emails and MS 13.

The whole county will vote republican again because, blacks, mexicans and liberuls. MAGA yippee.

Sorry I’m a little cynical today.

[ooky]

12. Their Sales VP said "they didn't see this coming".

I guess that explains why he thought it was okay to vote for someone who had a rich history of fraud who was lying his ass off. Fuck him. He IS the problem. He, and his GREED. He and his workers who voted for this stinking pile of excrement are getting what they deserve. Now all these assholes who "didn't want to pay for someone else's health insurance" can start shopping for their own health insurance in the same overpriced market their votes have sustained, without a job to pay for it. While they are reveling in poor migrant families they wanted destroyed at the Mexican border they can experience their own life die at the same time.

[DeminPennswoods]

13. How come this company isn't buying American steel and aluminum?

There still are some steel and aluminum mills here. That was supposed to be the goal, right? Drive companies to buy from other American companies. Guess that's not exactly how it will work out.

[ooky]

14. Real companies aren't that patriotic. Not when it comes to their bottom line.

There is a reason they supply half the nails in the U.S. In the corporate manufacturing world, we call it "Low Cost Country" sourcing. Also known as LCC sourcing. And most supply chain executives have "LCC sourcing" at or near the top of their performance goals and objectives.

[greatlaurel]

15. The USA is under the most well organized attack in the history of the country.

A large number of American-born plutocrats have joined forces to destroy the USA. The propaganda from the NRA, whether funded by a foreign power or internally, has been effectively used to destabilize the country and kill 33,000 people every year in the US, with 13,000 being homicide deaths. If a foreign power was killed 30,000 Americans, military action would be justified and taken. There are 200 non-fatal injuries per day in the USA.

The combination of propaganda to make American citizens fearful of people of color and immigrants combined has been extremely effective in destabilizing the USA internally, as well.

These forces are combining to weaken the rule of law in the USA in order to enrich and empower a very few plutocrats and sociopaths. It just goes to show how ignorant most people are of the strength of marketing and manipulation which can destroy a country without firing a shot.

The destruction by Trump of the economy is well under way. The tariffs are designed to destroy the American economy. Mid-Continent Nail may be the first victim of this designed destruction of the American economy, but they will not be the last. The agriculture sector is going to be taking a huge hit this harvest season. Perhaps the Chinese will come in and buy up all the farmland once the farmers are forced to sell their lands when they cannot sell their crops for enough money to pay to plant the crops. This is going to get really bad really fast. I see no way to stop this at this point. I just hope we can survive and put the perpetrators in jail.

[kimbutgar]

17. And the dumbasses will vote republican in November!

I don’t see how they can pin this on the Democratic party or President Obama. It will be quite a stretch.

[WhiteTara]

18. Owner voted for trump and is now begging McCaskill

to save him. I have had to suppress the urge to call him and say "wimp womp"

[QC]

19. womp womp

[oasis]

20. Trump knows what the hell he's doing. He went bankrupt only 4 times.

So there