Trump to Announce Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S.

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Cheap products don't help anyone without a job. Except those that collect government cheques.

So your solution is corporate welfare and government handouts? Thanks for proving yet again that Trumpites are lefties. You obviously supported paying fisherman to fish once the cod stocks ran out. When will you lefties learn that government interference in business does not help.
 

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such win! Mr. Trump pulled this off and he ain't even the president yet. :lol:

there will be plenty of good news ahead kids. not to worry.
 

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A small boon at the cost of $7 million dollars and 700 jobs went to Mexico.

This is extraordinarily poor performance for someone who's supposed to lead the greatest country in the world.


I fully expect Loc to make a post about how mad I am because of the inconvenient facts he's unwilling to address.
 
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Yup. :lol:

Im not sure what's funnier, Loc's insistence that you're mad that Trump is acting like a leftie or Loc's support of left-wing policies. I'm leaning towards the latter because he reminds of a Liberal party supporter. Policies are good or bad based on which party promotes them. The ideology is irrelevant.
 

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I think it's great that the jobs are staying in the US.


I think it's ridiculous that the US will pay millions of dollars to have them stay, but that's how all business seems to work now.
 

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if barry hadda done this, that man-child would have been hailed as a genius. oh well. he pooh-pooh'ed the idea :lol:
 

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Since Trump is willing to rip up all the free trade agreements then it will go back to what it was before which was "Sell to Americans then build it in America"
 

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I think it's great that the jobs are staying in the US.


I think it's ridiculous that the US will pay millions of dollars to have them stay, but that's how all business seems to work now.

Yea it's called socialism.

Trump's an authoritarian protectionist.

He's left.


And ES and Locutus are enjoying every bit of it. :)
 

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One problem I can see with Trump micromanaging like this is that he sends the message that the squeeky wheel gets the oil. Whenever a company wants a subsidy for example, just publicly threaten to move to Mexico and bang, Trump will be there negotiating with it. What happens once every business starts to do the same? Trump can't be everywhere at once.
 

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Yea it's called socialism.

Trump's an authoritarian protectionist.

He's left.


And ES and Locutus are enjoying every bit of it. :)

Bit he's not an international socialist, but a national one. That's usually associated with the far right.
 

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Bit he's not an international socialist, but a national one...

That's why alot of his Trump brand products are made in Jina. He just pretends to be pro-America because it sells to simpletons.

Americans will subsidize companies like Carrier through their taxes and will pay more for their products as well. True conservatives, like myself, can see the error in that approach. Lefties like mentalfloss and Loc disagree. Of course, their approach is what got us into the mess we are in now.
 

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Perhaps ironically, it's my socialistic or left-leaning streak that makes me support free trade as an effective wealth equalizer between countries.

With that, I've never understood why the BDP has always opposed free trade.

Yet my right-leaning capitalist streak has also always supported free trade, so Conservative and Liberal support for free trade doesn't surprise me.
 

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Trump isn't even in office yet and he's already the easiest president to criticise in American history.

Even Bush made it longer than this.
 

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Oh the joy! The absolute joy we are having seeing all these liberal tantrums and tears. They're bleeding out of their eyes!