I never said he was stupid. But he's also gone bankrupt 4 times himself, a lot of his talk his bluster and exagerration and a lot of his business prowess is exagerrated too. He is hardly the best businessman America has to offer. 

Tax breaks are fine, but they don't change the fundamental issue that there are 10-20 Mexicans/Chinese/etc. willing to do any job Americans are willing to do for 1/6 the salary. There is no "tax break" that changes this. Beyond that there is automation which is becoming even cheaper than any kind of human labor. 

"Tax breaks fix everything" doesn't always work. In fact it doesn't work in many instances. 

Manufacturing is a complex issue, for example do you know that there is more manufacturing in the US today inflation adjusted than at any point in the history of the country? Most people don't know that. It only requires 1/3 the work force because of technology advances. Even 30 years ago most companies had to employ like 3x as many secretaries but today PCs and the internet streamline tasks so much so that there's simply no need to hire that many people. 

I'm just saying relative to this deal, I think it's a poor deal. This is a deal where the US gov't had everything going for it and all the leverage in the world, to walk out of this and still lose more than 50% of the jobs is a shitty job IMO. 

Toally agree, much of the polytical liberals are blind fools.

lol. ya the president elect can slap on a tarriff. 

Liberals might think it is bad business... but that means nothing. 

Those two thousand jobs of a single puzzle piece is part of the big picture that is important as the other pieces. With that being said and if it were so easy for Trump to have done this no matter which way you look at it, Obama, no disrespect to him, should  have stepped in and have done something or Hillary should have proposed something as well. Take off your blinders man.

that would be so swesome for all thsoe Americans working full filling those contracts.  

He certainly could have implied it will be the first thing that happens after he is sworn in. Instead he rolled over and let a thousand people lose their jobs. And he is celebrating it.

Like no other company would step up and fill that space?

whcih one ? a mexican one chinese ? care to be more specific with your well thought out plans ?

He wouldn't even have to go that far, he could've simply said "I see you have 5 billion in government contracts, sure would be a shame if the next round of contracts went to a different company" and Carrier's parent company likely would've shat a brick and fallen in line. 

The truth is he knews a lot of the stuff he said on the campaign trail was bullshit and that's not how "business" works. 

But it does show you how powerless the US gov't really is, this is a situation where they have everything going on their side and a company like Carrier still can't be bothered to leave even 50% of their jobs. If you are in the manufacturing industry as a US worker, I'd strongly advise you start looking into re-education of a different field, because you are fucked in the long term and you need to start preparing for that. 

Even if Trump went wild he could just as easily said that he was going to pick a rival to them. Or anyone. I've never heard of a company happy to lose a multibillion contract.