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the ART of the deal

ChrisL68 said:
A dog and pony show. Like the carrier deal.

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Speaking of...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...ing-to-mexico-after-trump-said-hed-save-them/

Chuck Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents Carrier employees in Indianapolis, provided further evidence that Trump had inflated the number of jobs that would remain in Indianapolis. Only 800 Carrier employees would be able to keep their jobs — 770 factory workers plus 30 or so more employees, counting supervisors, according to the union count.

Jones told The Washington Post days later that Trump had “lied his a-- off.” He suspected the then-president-elect was including in his count design and engineering jobs that were never going to leave. Trump responded on Twitter by saying Jones had done a “terrible job” as union president.

The full extent of the layoffs emerged Monday with Carrier's announcement of 632 job losses.

The company told The Washington Post on Wednesday that “more than 1,000 jobs” will be preserved. However that figure included engineering and headquarters staff whose jobs were never scheduled to leave Indianapolis in the first place.

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Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said Trump’s deal with Carrier offered a partial solution to a broader problem.

American manufacturing employment, he noted, has dwindled for decades, especially in Indiana, where a third of workers held those jobs 50 years ago; the share today is closer to 10 percent.

“I wouldn’t even call it a deal,” Strain said. “It seemed to be that Carrier was responding to political pressure and did so in a way that allowed them to make it through a political moment.”

Trump, he said, benefited from the optics.

“The president,” Strain said, “took the opportunity to position himself as a champion of American workers.”
 
People on here ask what a rube is. It's someone who believes that these old school manufacturing jobs are going to be brought back.

He said those numbers could go even higher, noting that United Technologies had agreed to invest roughly $16 million into updating the plant.

“And by the way, that number is going to go up substantially as they expand this area, this plant,” Trump said. “The 1,100 is going to be a minimum number.”

But later that month, Greg Hayes, chief executive of United Technologies, admitted that the $16 million investment would go toward automation.

“What that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs,” he told CNBC's Jim Cramer.
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People who believed the money was to upgrade the plant to aid the workers.
 
Wait, you mean coal, steel, and manufacturing jobs aren't coming back? That money is going towards automation which will eventually replace workers?

Hmmm, strange.
 
It's almost like it's 2017.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
Wait, you mean coal, steel, and manufacturing jobs aren't coming back? That money is going towards automation which will eventually replace workers?

Hmmm, strange.
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damn...feels like some of us have been saying that since last summer.
 
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