Steve’s Barking; Diet DNA

Are we killing ourselves by going on fad diets. We have he Mediterranean diet. Perhaps that works great for those who live by the Mediterranean Sea, with centuries of digesting that kind of food.
Perhaps it would not prolong life and maybe even shorten it if one is an Eastern European.
A vegan diet my be good if one has the DNA of people who had very little chance to eat flesh, and perhaps the opposite is true meat would be bad for the digestive system in a high protein diet with lots of meat if your ancestors ate mostly vegetables and fruit.
Perhaps one is disposed to be heavy in cold climates to keep warm, and thinner in warm climate if ones DNA comes from a hotter climate.
Do diets have a negative impact without knowing ones DNA?

Steve’s Barking; Trump, Warren same cloth.

 It’s no secret that the president of United States would prefer to face Senator Elizabeth Warren in the election next year because of her  perceived  socialist views.
  Now  it’s assumed that Senator Warren only collects small donations and she doesn’t take PAC money. Me being the cynical bastard that I am thinks that it is possible that Republican operatives are sending money in the name of thousands of individuals to help her win the Democratic primary.
 Now if she were to win the the Democratic primary she couldn’t take money from the Democratic  Committee because it takes money from wealthy individuals and PAC money. Maybe I’m wrong just like Trump who said I don’t need to take money from PACS and lobbyist I’m self funded, then took money from the Republican National  Committee. Yea he was self funded, just like Warren will only take small donations.
 Trump makes like he’s the smartest man in the room and he had plans to fix the unbroken economy.
Warren has a plan to change to take on a trade imbalance were the numbers don’t show it if you include American brands overseas such as MacDonald's.
 Trump straw dogs are  immigrants  because that what his base wants to hear, Warren’s straw dog is billionaires because that’s what her base feeds on.
 Trump uses executive orders ( though most are unconstitutional) to get his way, now if I’m not mistaken, Senator Warren when asked how she was going to get her proposal done when most of Congress would vote against it said executive order.

Steve’s Barking; A 90 billion purchase of agricultural products by the China 🤬😕

A 90 billion purchase of agricultural products by the Chinese in one year would be a disaster for the American consumers.
The Chinese in bought a little over 9 billion dollars in agricultural products in 2017 the year before the trade war!
So that being said if China was to purchase 10 times that amount, the American farmer would have an almost impossible task producing that much farm goods for them. The United States families would then have to complete with subsidized Chinese families driving up the price of farm products several times over.
The poor will starve. Even those who call themselves middle class will have a tough time buying food.
Think of all those fast food joints that will go out of business! I know there are some who think that’s a good thing.
 If the U.S. isn’t careful it will turn into the capitalist version of Venezuela.
 If one thinks that major firms wouldn’t be effected, think again.When the consumer has the choice of eating or buying electronic products what do you think they will buy.
😫😤😩🥺😡😾
It should read 40 to 50 Billion dollars

Steve’s Barking; Cows, an endangered species

Cows may soon turn into a endangered species.
There are those who complain about cow farts and belching putting too much methane into the air warming up the planet. Now the only way to  alleviate this is no more ice cream, or any other dairy product, or for that matter eating of  meat.
Cows are unfortunately a domestic animal, without our need for them they will die out because unlike  the dog they make terrible pets. If we humans don’t need them predators will kill them or worse just die from the environment. They don’t have the ability to procreate in  sufficient  numbers.
Even that might not be enough to stop global warming. We may have to slaughter them having one last hamburger made from flesh.


*this is satire

Steve’s Barking;It needs more then cheap labor to export manufactured goods

 There are those who will tell you that a  Company needs cheap labor to export manufactured goods .
  Well company in any country need more and cheap labor to  export manufactured goods .
  The  country that is manufacturing goods  needs reliable and cheap electricity.
   It needs large ports and airports  to ship the goods to other countries. It may also need excellent roads to ship the manufactured goods. It also needs a reliable work force.
   Without these things cheap labor isn’t enough.

Steve’s Barking; made in Vietnam (China)

 What’s to stop companies from manufacturing products in China 90% complete and then sending it over to Vietnam or some other country in Asia completing very little and saying  The product was made in that country?
 It wouldn’t be the first time that was done.

Steve’s Barking; how are AOC and Sean Hannity alike .

 How are AOC and Sean Hannity alike?
 There both dumber then a   horse.
By a lot .

Steve’s Barking; Taxing wealth hurts me

I have no money in the stock market! I am not a millionaire or even a hundred thousandaire.
So how in the world does taxing billionaires hurt me. Senator  Warren   proposition for Social Security  according to her Will give extra money in my Social Security Check.
Well unfortunately much of my fully funded pension that I receive is tied to the stock market.
Now one can ask yourself what does a pension tied to the stock market have to do with taxing extreme wealth? Let me explain billionaires don’t have their money in their pockets or even in the bank. Well.....they will have sell shares of stock. By the power of supply and demand the price of stocks will go down. There by diminishing the percentage of my pension being fully funded.
 Now this theory was put to the test when Jeff Bezos sold over 1.5 billion dollars worth of Amazon stock, and the stock went down by 5 percent.
So why does Senator Warren want to hurt pension.

Steve’s Barking; China buying what it needs

Let me get this straight China is buying U.S. pigs and soybeans without putting a  tariff on them.
China is suffering from a shortage of enough slaughter-able pigs due to swine flu.
It needs twice the amount of pigs that it has during its’ 70th anniversary.
It needs soybeans for the baby pigs so that it can have a healthy pork supply next year.
Its’ dropping the tariffs because it wants to call a truce to the trade war with the United Stares😂.

Steve’s Barking;Without the Palestinians would there be an Israel?

Without the Palestinians would there be an Israel?
Israel as a country became a Jewish State because of the hatred and the threat to Jews.
Without getting into a  dissertation of the whole story of Israel, Palestine and the whole Middle East I’m going to state that Israel would be in historic trouble ( just as it was in Roman times) by trying to define what a Jew is. Is being Jewish a race a the Nazis and some, Americans in the early 1900s?
Is it a nationality as some have claimed (Israel would be its nation if that were the case)?
Is it a religion? And if it is just a religion who is the true teacher of that religion? Now I look at Israel and it would be  turmoil trying to figure out these questions as brr(before Roman rule) if the fear of Palestine rule over all those who call themselves Jews living in present day Israel. Fear of other tribes  is the real reason Israel is strong today. In a real sense Israel might even disintegrate.

Steve’s Barking; What is with CNBC

Looked at report from CNBC today stating that China’s manufacturing unexpectedly rose in August.
Two days prior report headlines stated that China’s manufacturing fell for the fourth month running.
Being I don’t belong to a spy agency, which story on CNBC is correct?

Steve’s Barking; The rise of eco friendly companies

The latest thing in the stock market is save the planet stocks. Or as I state loser companies that don’t make any money and probably won’t make a profit in the near future and probably never will.
I’m thinking in the terms of companies such as Beyond Meat, which is like eating processed garbage but if you hate cow farts this company is a for you. I have to put Tesla into this category, people are impressed with an all electric car no matter how unsafe it is. There are other car makers that make electric cars but Tesla was the first in modern era so one must delude oneself and buy stock in a company that will never be truly profitable. Oh by the way electric cars were in the good old USA in the early 1900s. No Tesla wasn’t the first.
So all yea who want to buy stocks in eco friendly company that go against the grain of  normal smart investing, and buy what you perceive as fell good stories, be my guest, that’s what this country is all about.

Steve’s Barking; How about choosing someone who can run he country

I’m getting annoyed with those Democrats who are are asking that the Democrats biggest criteria is someone who can beat the present President. Hell, given 200 million dollars I could beat the current President, WhatIs really needed is someone who can win and run the country given the slow people in Congress, and the disastrous way this country is headed.

Steve’s Barking; Safety against malware.

Several towns in the great State of Texas were hit by  ransom ware.
There are certain precautions that town, cities and utilities should take.
1. Don’t use the cloud. Hacking into the cloud is not impossible.
2. Use  Ethernet to communicate between computers, it’s much more difficult to hack into a closed circuit then over the air.
3. Check any devises for any unauthorized programs.
4. If you’re using voting machines try to make them stand alone, it’s almost impossible to hack into a stand alone machine. Any  malfeasance would be done by those who programmed the machines.

Steve’s barking; Maybe were looking at trade all wrong!

How do we look at trade?
Do we count having a military base in a foreign country as trade? I know I do. I count it as an import.
Having a Starbucks, Yum brands, and Walmart in foreign countries, guess what that’s an export. If one includes brands that are overseas trade isn’t as one sided as we’ve been told.
Should we count money that is invested from one countries business and  individuals  to another country as an export as I do, then he United States is not a being ripped off in trade, the US is holding its own.

If we have a lower unemployment  rate then our trading partners, we’re not being taken advantage of in trade.

Steve’s Barking; Good sign for the economy, the currency is high!

Are we crazy?
We Americans are complaining that our currency is going up compared to the rest of the worlds currencies. Our currency is going up because the rest of the world is experiencing an economic slow down. With negative interest rates on bonds, and slow downs in economic growth throughout the world, one would have to expect Europeans would be investing in the United States. In order to do this one would have to change their currency to dollars. Doing currency exchange the dollar would go
up. This is a great sign for a country to have  a strong currency.
The Chinese government is not doing anything more then Europe are doing to weaken it’s currency, so we should stop calling the Chinese currency manipulator. We don’t call Russia, the EU, or Argentina currency manipulators.
When it comes to currency being higher, energy is cheaper, raw materials are cheaper,  making building factories cheaper for those raw materials.
The United States with a 3.7%  (really less then 0%) wtf are demanding more jobs by devaluation of our currency. If the President had any brains he would take credit for a strong currency. He could easily say that America is great again under his watch.

Steve’s Barking; Losing the grip on world order

The world is going ape sh*t.
Protest in Hong Kong.
Protest in Moscow.
Negative interest rates on borrowing to finance world governments(WTF).
The President of the US has a negative IQ.
The end of days must be  approaching.

Steve’s Barking;Agnostic politically

I’m an agnostic in my political views.
Meaning I don’t believe in there’s such a thing as conservative, librarian, liberal, or progressive.
I going to give a little test of President’s administrations in my time.
Which President’s administration did this.
(1) Segregated the civil service and bombed African Americans in Norman Oklahoma?
(2) integrated the Arm forces and the civil service?
(3)  wanted a negative income tax and  initiated  affirmative action?
(4) ended ADC as we knew it, and made the criminal justice system into a mess?

My being taught that conservatives in the beginning of this country wanted higher taxes and a strong centralized government.
I was taught that conservatives prior to WW2 didn’t believe in a large military.
Conservatives used to be large believers in law and order, so what happened.
Conservatives in my youth believed in personal responsibility, so why are they whining about everything.
 Liberals on the other hand (too make it  brief ) want to help the down trodden until it effects them, then they act like conservatives.

At one time I called myself a progressive, after all I collect Social Security, worked in government.
collect Medicare, my apartment was subsidized by the government and I went to college on the GI bill.  What changed me?  Understanding that you can have progressive ideas and not be a true progressive because there’s no such thing.

Answers to the questions;
(1) Woodrow Wilson (so called progressive)
(2) Harry Truman ( ran against progressive Henry Wallace)
(3)Richard Nixon (conservative)
(4)Bill Clinton (liberal?)

Steve’s Barking; All the Justices of the Supreme Court should resign

All the Justices of the Supreme Court should resign.
The Supreme Court on this day 6/24/2019 rejected challenges of the administration in steel tariffs.
Now as I read the constitution article 1 section 8 The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect
Duties and Impost.
Now nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the President has that right to  levi taxes .
According to Marian Webster dictionary tariffs are a form of taxes.
Now I know that Congress in the 60s gave the right to  levy tariffs on imports for national security concerns. It was wrong then to abdicate it’s job and it’s wrong now.
Now even if you stretch the constitution meaning and I mean really stretch that the President has the right to protect this country, he has the duty to prove to the American people that imposing a tariffs protects the country from danger making this a national security  matter.

Steve’s Barking;Donald Trump and double jeopardy

If Iwere to advise the President of the United States I would advise him to  encourage have him to seek impeachment. That may seem like a crazy idea but I doubt he would be convicted in the Senate, and any of those crimes that he is tried on he could claim double jeopardy and not be tried in civilian court when he  leaves office ( I would guess).

Steve’s Barking; Buying stocks into a recession

Today the stock market shot up.
The pundits gave the reason week job numbers and therefore the FED will lower interest rates. Translation the FED thinks that a recession is around the corner, let’s stave it off.
So buying stocks right now is a way of gambling no recession and the economy will get stronger.

Steve’s Barking;China is stealing our technology. Are we Americans sure.

As of 5/18/2019 we are in a trade war with China! 

We have hurt our farmers, and we’re are going to hurt our consumers because we want to produce products that we have no workers for. Now that would be crazy enough but we’re also hurting ourselves because we’ve been told that the Chinese our stealing our technology and what’s not being stolen outright is being given to them in order to do business with over 1.5 billion customers.

Outside of the government I haven’t heard any company complain. So which companies have been struck by a those dastardly Chinese? Is this some sort of racist rant? Are is the Chinese government really stealing and forcing Americans companies to hand over our secrets or is that just another ignorant rant.

Now the last I heard our our companies are free to produce and to sell anywhere in China. If they are afraid of turning over there technology don’t do business in China. Why are those mysterious companies making goods in China if they are stealing it?

Probably the biggest threat to our technology  is industrial spying, and if a Chinese company steals technology so be it, as American companies steal technology all the time.

Now as I recall from my history books we (the United States) stole industrial secrets from Britain at the end of the 18th century. Maybe their taking after us.

Steve’s Barking; Why does Allen Greenspan hate Social Security

I don’t really know if the man  I use to think was an extremely smart economist turned into a fool when it comes to entitlements, especially Social Security.
 Now I’m going to try to state what he claimed, that entitlements hurt investment in the private sector by taking money out of the system. Now I’m sure that’s not exactly what he said, it was more like entitlements are a burden on the economy.
 Now thinking that Social Security and Medicare are burdens then Mr Greenspan is a fool.
 First of all Social Security provides in the majority of cases  discretionary income, without which a consumer economy like the United States will feel the pinch and it doesn’t matter how much investment is made in an industry. Those  who make the investments are just throwing money out the window. One must have the ability to purchase a  product no matter who good or desirable that product is.

 We do have problems with Social Security that could easily be solved by just ending the cap.
 The first problem is probably the last problem, that in the near future the Social Security trust fund will run out of cash and there will not be enough money to pay what was promised. We will probably be paying close to 70% (I know that the Social Security actuarial team says 79%, but I’m thinking  recession and robots taking jobs).
 The immediate problem that no one talks about were is the money coming from to pay the bill. We will have to borrow money on the open market or have the Federal Reserve buy up the the Social Security bonds (printing money).
 Currently Social Security is giving a hedge  against how much money has to be borrowed on the open market. That hedge will soon be eliminated altogether. Twenty years ago the hedge was greater and what we borrowed was quite less then now.
 Looking at the  myriads of problems that we have with money from Social Security the best way to handle the problem is quite simply as I stated before, no cap, no donut hole.
 Those who claim that it’s unfair that those paying more then their fair share because they are actually    
get almost as much benefit because the value of the assets that they own will be greater, believe or not.

Steve’s Barking;What’s wrong with being on the phone at diner

Why do people complain or at least make funny of me and my wife just because were on our cell phone at  the diner.
Like in the old days we all would talk to one another at diner. No one of us would be watching the news during diner after work? Tell me another story.
What’s wrong with my wife playing her games or keeping up with her latest family gossip? At least she’s not screaming at me, telling me what a lousy person I am.
What’s wrong with me keeping up with my teams, and my stocks. At least I’m not calling her names.
You see the cell phone has brought  serenity to my house hold during diner time, even when we are dining out. So all you complainers bug off.

Steve’s Barking; Intrest on US bond keeps falling and can’t get up

Intrest on the U.S. ten year bond has fallen to 2.5%. Why oh why.
All the world must trust the American dollar, and with low interest rate in the rest of the world, the fall of the bond rate is a great deal compared to the rest of the world despite it’s fall.
Is the dollar going to get stronger with no mater what the American government wants the dollar to do?
Maybe the strong dollar is not the best for American manufacturers world wide, but it’s good for borrowers, especially the government.

Steve’s Barking;What Is fair(?) advantage?

There seems to be a scandal of cheating from the rather wealthy to get their children into prestigious universities.  Now isn’t that the way of the world. Don’t we all want to get our children into prestigious universities. Many of us are willing to bend a few rules to get advantages for our children.
That is what parents are suppose to do. Good parents anyway. We are shocked when at  bending of rules. We our really shocked when there is cheating.
Where not shocked at those who make rules that by those who have larceny in their hearts can easily break them.
We of middle income complain about the poor,  how they have advantage of medicaid ( not having to buy healthcare).
We are angry because  that the color of ones skin has the advantage of getting that job.(It’s true,but it works both ways) We complain that it’s highly unfair, but most of us would use it to our advantage.
We use our gender to our advantage, don’t we? So why get riled up because she’s me one has the advantage of money and they cheat. The system(s) are set up for cheating and most of us our wired to do so.

Steve’s Barking; build that wall to keep drugs out

  We have an opioid  epidemic in the United States .
  So let’s build those walls around the pharmaceutical companies to keep those drugs out.

Steve’s Barking; Pickpocket politics

America has turned to pickpocket politics.
Now I don’t mean to say that the  politicians are stealing from the people to line their own
pockets, which maybe true, I’m writing to say the President keeps pointing at his rivals doing this or that wrong, while he is doing the exact same thing only worse just as a pickpocket diverts attention from his picking a pocket by saying look at that b*****d picking the pockets of those  unsuspected  fools.

Steve’s Barking; Giving the devil (Trump) his due!

You can say what you want about the current President of the United States, but if the United States pulls out of Afghanistan (with a bargain from the  Taliban) it should go down as a great achievement.
The President should be praised for this achievement.

Steve’s Barking;Would NATO be stronger without the US?

Let’s face, when it comes to Europe and the United States things aren’t going very well.
Every so often the President of the United States threatens to leave NATO.
Would that be a good thing for Europe? Wouldn’t they spend more of their own money? Would they thenbuy less hardware from the United States and spend more on themselves.
Would they then be on less of a guilt trip from the U.S.?
The big question is would Europe be a safer place or would a clash of NATO nations and Russia be more likely?

Steve’s Barking; What’s wrong with Russia

Why is it in Russia isn’t competing with China and the  United States as an economic supper power.
They have the resources (natural) and the brain power ( there programmers are as good as anyone’s without the computer time that American programmers have)?
Why aren’t their supermarkets filed with goodies?
Why did I read about their pensioners pensions being reduced as I read not so long ago?
Maybe the leadership should steal  secrets  of supermarkets and hot house farming from the west.
Maybe they could  try internal currency if they  produced what they needed most.
If Russia became a economic superpower it would benefit the world?
That’s my rant for the day.

* There  supermarket shelves in most large cities can compete with the West. ( 7/3/22)

Steve’s Barking; President promises we will not be a socialist country like Venezuela

The President promised the American people that we will not be a socialist country like Venezuela, but he didn’t promise we will not be a total capitalist country like  Haiti.
Look at the economic growth in the last two years in the USA, the world hasn’t seen anything like it since Brazil’s  economic miracle .

Steve’s Barking; Is race really race? (Racism)

Modern day ( meaning 20th century and later ) seem to think in the terms  of Caucasian,  Negro, and Asian  as the only races there are. But I’ve been reading About how the English called the Irish an  inferior race. How in America we tried to keep the Poles another Slavic people out because we called them an  inferior race.
 The Japanese at one time called the Chinese an  inferior race.
Now let  look at the cast system in India would you not call that a form of racism.
The  Chinese and the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese being  inferior.
Didn’t the Arabs at one time feel that the Southern Africans were different and inferior?
Didn’t Different tribes in Africa feel that other tribes were inferior.
Even today there is talk of Jews not as being part of a religion but of a race of people.
My feeling is race is s just part of a tribal system that started at the dawn of man. Inter sexual relations within the tribes.
But what do I know,  I’m not an anthropologist. 

Steve’s Barking; How do I know, The President tells me so

There are no nuke in North Korea. How do I know, the President tells me so.
There are no Russians in Crimea. How do I know, the President tells me so.
There is no rise in average global temperatures. How do I know, the President tells me so.
The Russians did no hacking in the last presidential election. How do I know, the President tells me so.
America’s has interagency community doesn’t know what it’s talking about. How do I know, the President tells me so.
My President know it all, because he gets his information out of his butt, and that’s a brilliant butt. How do I, the President tells me so.

Steve’s Barking; what’s with Ann Coulter on the Bill Maher show

I saw the Bill Maher show the other day and Ann Coulter was on. She stated that Bill Maher is worth more then her as if when she’s over at Bill Maher house and she exhausts him, she gets a flashlight and goes through his papers to find out his net worth.
She also stated that she’s ( if I got this correct) she was for the hard working guy. Now she seems to not think that federal employees and contract workers aren’t as worthy as non government workers. Perhaps she feels those who work for the government aren’t hard workers🤷‍♀️.
Now Ann Coulter might just be a great satirist or just the evil wicked witch of the east.
Perhaps she’s a democratic  saboteur, or just a dittzie Columbia University grad(?).
I haven’t the faintest idea.

Steve’s Barking; There’s something in the air?

In America there seems to be a war on federal civil servants, we call it Trump’s shut down.
In Russia they reduced pensions on my fellow old people.
France, raising the price on gasoline that that we poor people have a hard time getting around.
What’s with Venezuela, doesn’t those socialist like there workers?

Steve’s Barking; Please don’t poke the bear

Why the gloating. There is no money for a wall and the workers are back to work. That’s for three weeks. Repeat that’s for three weeks. No that’s not a victory, in three weeks we’ll be back at square one. Now if one thinks by  embarrassing the President you’ll have the same result I wouldn’t count on it. There is an old saying, don’t poke the bear, he’s only going to get mad.

Steve’s Barking; A lay-off here, lay-off there

A reduction here( Verizon) A reduction there(GM, and Tesla) Keep this up and pretty soon the United Sates will have a full grown recession.

Steve’s Barking; 2019 The year of women running for President

It’s only January and already 3 women have  announced  that they will be running for President in 2020. Another will be announcing very shortly a run for President. Keep it up and  surely  A man will get the Democratic nomination for President.

Steve’s Barking; And the number 1 welfare queen in the United States is...

Drum roll please.... The number one welfare queen in the United States of America is Senator Mitch McConnell.
* Welfare Queen, is one who takes government money and doesn’t do anything to deserve it.
Mitch McConnell gets a handsome salary for being senator and refuses to do his job.
Spending bills come from congress not the executive branch as per the constitution of the United States not the executive executive office. It’s up to the leadership of the two houses of Congress to put forth a spending bill, if the leadership of one house holds up a spending bill that resonates s not doing his or her job.
Of cause there is the promise that hundreds of thousands of federal worker not being allowed to work
because there is no spending bill will get paid.
Let’s not forget that no hearing were held for a Supreme Court  nominee, There by  bypassing their constitional duty.
So please tell me, who could be a bigger welfare queen then Senator Mitch McConnell.

Steve’s Barking; Let the world wide battle begin

Let’s have a battle royal between nations on who can treat their citizens the best.
What country does the best job with the least hunger.
What country does the best job with healthcare.
What country does the best job best job with modern transportation.
What country does the best job with freedom of thought.
What country does the best job with with keeping its citizens the happiest.
Come on Russia, come on China, Come on USA, we know your up to the challenge.
All you Europeon countries I know you’re up to the challenge. Same is true for all the Asian and South American nations, and what about you African nations, I know that each and everyone of you in a few years can challenge the more prosperous nations.

Steve’s Barking; Were’s the line in the sand for taxes

I’m going to make a statement in writing that many are going to hate me.
We pay to little in taxes.
If we “all” pay a little more in taxes it will not hurt the economy. If we pay to much the economy would suffer.
What about taxing the rich? How much should the tax be? If it’s too little it would not be much of a help. If you tax too high we might lose the the goose that  lays the golden eggs.
This is truer in states such as New York and California then it is for then it is for the U.S. as a whole.
What is the right amount of taxes? It’s a hit and miss proposition.

Steve’s Barking; Will no tax refunds in February mean a negative GDP

Much of we Americans get tax refunds to help pay our drunken spending from Christmas.
Others of use our tax refunds for down payment on large ticket items.
And still some of us invest or save.
Now all these things help pad the economy.
Now I can understand that because of the government shutdown there will be no refunds until the government’s partial shutdown is over. This is not good for the economy. I take that back, it’s  a disaster for the economy.
Now what about the workers who aren’t getting paid. Bad for the banks who lent them money and aren’t getting it back. Bad for the stores that the workers shop at.
What about those who depend who is snap ( what used to be be called food stamps). That would be negative for the stores that sell the produce. That would be negative for the farmers who grow the produce, for grocery stores will need less produce, less need,  produce prices go down.
My suggestion to all who own stock, and the government shutdown goes into February is sell, sell , sell.