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Soundwave on 02 December 2016
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AAA300 said:
bunchanumbers said:

I actually have no idea what most of those places you are talking about. All I gotta use is my own eyes. Trump lets a thousand jobs go. Trump brags about him saving a few.

Whee. There's that great america we've been waiting for.

I take it your a glass half empty type of person. If he had saved all the jobs  you and some of the blind people on this site would find something to complain about. Like why couldn't he get them raises or more vacation! You need to look at the big picture the jobs were gone!!!!!!! Trump saved 1100 jobs by negotiating with them before they moved permanently something OBAMA WASN'T GOING TO DO AND NEITHER WAS CLINTON! And as for him promoting this, its a good thing that he shows all Americans he's got there back and that he will work for the jobs we need. The leader of a nation needs to be a cheerleader for the country in order to install confidence to their people! So be happy for the people he's help.

No this shows he's a PR lackey that cherry picked what should've been an easy deal and still came out of it with a fairly poor deal. 

Any one could've gotten this deal, there will be 100s of other similar situations that no one gives two craps about that will be outsourced or replaced with robots because the president isn't going to personally get involved with every busniess transaction (pretty sure even Republicans would shit a brick if that happened). 

This was a tailor made softball set up for him, the government has most of the leverage here, it was a small number of jobs, IMO Trump let Carrier off the hook by letting them move more than 50% of these jobs, get a tax break, and so on. 

People need to understand if 48% is the best he can do in a situation so favorable like this, what's he going to do with a company that has $0 in US defence contracts? Get 10%? 5%? Would those also be good deals? 

This shows he's not nearly as tough on these companies that outsourced as he crowed about on the campaign trail. US manfaucturing is done, people are going to have to accept it, US is become a services based economy. And quite frankly shame on him for trying to score political points out of this there are still 1200 people losing their jobs and he's doing a victory rally and a press conference at the Carrier plant? Like sometimes it's better to just do your job and shut up.