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Soundwave said:

Is it a financial win for the 1000+ people who are still losing their jobs? 

This is a net job loss, I think people need to understand that, you're still losing jobs here. This is like thinking you're winning a basketball game because you only got outscored by 15 points that last quarter instead of 25 the quarter before. 

This is a company that the US gov't also had considerable leverage over as I've mentioned, companies that don't have $5 billion in defence contracts with the US gov't (which like 99% of them) can just tell Trump to go blow himself. This is the best deal he could get in a situation where a lot of things were going his way, it's a poor deal on that basis. 

$5 billion in defence contracts should at least get you 2000 jobs saved, that's a drop in the bucket, if you can't even get that many that's a problem because it shows he's likely impotent against companies that aren't really tied heavily to US gov't spending. Carrier's parent company is heavily tied to the gov't and this is the best they could do? To me it's a shitty deal, it should've been all 2000 stay or no dice, you're making billions off taxpayer funded government contracts the least you can do is keep this small number of jobs here. 

If this is how he plans to negotiate, it's not going to stop a net job loss. Carrier made out very nicely here. Got to move 1000+ jobs to Mexico, got a nice tax break (no tarrifs), and a nice PR photo op for them. 

We can't loose sight of whats really important here. Hint: It isn't Trump intentions.



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