LETTERS: Be Resilient Against Dangerous Decisions

These are certainly interesting times for news events with an update last night on the world news about President Trump deciding to subsidize farmers to help with more than $11 billion lost due to the tariffs he imposed and the resulting trade wars in the world economy. This is becoming an interesting pattern of our President actually creating a crisis and then attempting to be the one to fix it. Unfortunately it’s not going too well for the many hundreds of children taken from their parents with the “Zero tolerance policy,” and now farmers are being told things are ultimately going to come out better when the trade wars are over. As a candidate for our state Assembly I continue to learn more about Wisconsin’s agricultural industry, and I very much appreciated the Pulse’s recent article and information about our state’s strong position leading in the production of a variety of products. My focus will continue to be what we can do as citizens to help our state grow and prosper agriculturally, and in all areas, while being very focused and vigilant on what protections need to be in place to find those “best practices” that will protect and improve our air and water quality.   Wisconsin is an important part of the global economy and we have the opportunity to continue to elevate and improve our standards for food production and agricultural standards – we need to be resilient when political decisions seem dangerous.

Roberta Thelen
Baileys Harbor, Wis.