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Mike Rogers: “First time in history, we import more food than we export.”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

Mike Rogers roundtable with Michigan farmers in Hudsonville

Published September 24, 2024 | Video Starts at 56:34

So I think we have a lot of work to do in a short period of time to get this right, to make sure America is on right. So think of that. First time in history, we import more food than we export. build more foreign cars in America than domestic cars. First time that interest payment on the national debt is bigger than Department of Defense. (56:34–56:38)

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Asserts that for the first time in history, the U.S. imports more food than it exports.

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“We should be exporting food, not importing food.”
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“Apparently farmers and big farms are priced, aren't doing it right.”
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“A more recent example might be Venezuela. You go to their, you see pictures of their grocery stores, there's food on the shelves, right?…”
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“You mentioned earlier, I thought this was a very interesting point, that we didn't have enough USDA inspectors, but they sent five labor…”
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“And where you were, can you tell me about the labor you had? Didn't you say three or four or five? Forget the number of labor. Folks came…”
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“They did it during harvest.”
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“Always. Roger, can you just flesh that out a little bit? How would you do it if you could figure out the right ratio for USDA. And how do…”
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“Somebody was telling me about we're losing the onion market to Mexico. They're growing them really close to the border, not meeting our same…”
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“So I heard another story up on cherry farmers, that Turkey and China were shipping cherries to Brazil. Brazil sprinkles a little water on…”
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“If this keeps up, you won't have Michigan cherries at the cherry festival in four or five years.”
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“Chinese and Turkish cherries [will be at the cherry festival] in five years.”
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“They're taking water out of the Rio Grande and everybody's complaining, but it's for those, their onion crops and apparently other crops…”
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“Bringing them [onion crops] across at just a fraction of the price, you can't compete.”
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“Unless we want to buy all our food from other countries.”
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“Many years ago when before it was very popular, I introduced a, it was called countervailing duties.”
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“If you're selling us a product that was stolen with our intellectual property, there should be an extra penalty for that.”
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“If you penalize, know, sugar beets going into China at x tariff, we should be able to punish your, your fish product coming back into the…”
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“I like the idea of reciprocal tariffs because I think it helps level the playing field.”
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“Turkey and China are dumping in the market in Brazil.”
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“Dumping is a problem. Right? That's an unfair trade practice.”
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“China can produce more food. I know they're in the apple market out west. They're causing real problems for us, for our farmers here…”
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“We haven't had [a farm bill] for two years.”
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“I think prop twelve was designed to do away with pork farming. Honestly, I think they had an intention of dropping pork production in the…”
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“We lost 140,000 farms across America in the last five years.”
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“So I proposed along the trail here that any time that the federal government asks a social media platform to curtail whatever right, they're…”
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“Right now there's no check in the system.”
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“They're trying to shut down the pumps, those single, you know, marginal wells, they want to shut those down in four years.”
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“Those marginal wells, on average in Michigan, about five barrels a day, there are 700,000 of those wells across the United States.”
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