the long-term question are wages growing, are the right people getting the jobs, the resources, the job training? is american healing and moving together or moving in a different direction? the other thing, of course, you just had larry kudlow on saying trust me, it will sustain itself over time. likely the next quarter will be lower. we all hope it s higher. the elephant in the room is the trade war, whether or not the actions now taken by the president will undermine the great work everybody has done in the last couple years? all you have to do is listen to the farmers who, although some of them are still sticking with the president are sending the message that you re hurting me. the greatest indication that the tariffs are hurting is that they ve had to put $12 billion in place to sustain it while the pain takes course. in luouisiana we have a $6 billion export economy that will be hurt as well. you hope the trade war doesn t impact the economic growth we re seeing today. let s tu
this happening, they have to build a seven-mile pipeline to a municipality because the entire aquifer in a seven-mile radius has been poisoned. they ve been using that water for 100 years. and this, the way that the companies are getting access to the shale that they re doing this to is by offering people money for the mineral rights on their land. that s it. they re approaching farmers and people who own any land of any amount, even small amounts of land to do this. that s right. the desperation of the farmers who a big constituency is dairy farmers up there, have been losing their farms. there s been 100 suicides of farmers, dairy farmers in the last two years in america. we ve lost 150 dairy farms in the last 150,000 dairy farms in the last ten years. they can t make a living wage farming. yes. because of that, they re being forced to lease their land. no one loves their water and