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“We’re just shipping company after company after company is leaving this country and leaving jobs behind,” president Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last year. “And I’m going to get it stopped.”
So far, not so good. A group that advocates for federal workers says government records show (pdf) more than 10,000 jobs at federal contractors have been sent over overseas since Trump was elected. That’s more than double the average annual amount during Barack Obama’s presidency. The organization, Good Jobs Nation, funded by unions and faith groups, wants the White House to hold these contractors accountable.
All told, in the year since Trump was elected, more than 93,000 jobs have been certified by the Department of Labor as lost to outsourcing or trade competition, slightly higher than the average of about 87,000 in the preceding five years. But federal contractors made up 10% of that number, rather than the previous average of 4%. That suggests companies that work for the government like General Motors, Boeing and United Technologies aren’t worried about political repercussions from the man in the White House.
Consider United Technologies, which is the parent company of Carrier, a maker of air conditions and heating equipment. Carrier became famous shortly after the election when Trump loudly and personally intervened to “prevent” the company from outsourcing jobs to Mexico by offering it tax breaks. Since the spotlight has shifted along with Trump’s limited attention span, Carrier announced more layoffs, including 215 after the holidays. Local labor leaders say they feel betrayed.
I keep wondering what is the tipping point when the non-racist or batshit crazy Trump supporters will suddenly realize that they were duped.
I think stories like this might help make that a reality.
The idea that this idiot could deliver on ANY of the promises he made was always completely ridiculous.
MAGA my ass.
I keep wondering what is the tipping point when the non-racist or batshit crazy Trump supporters will suddenly realize that they were duped.
ReplyDeleteAs long as they can parrot it's fake news, they never will.
And fake news is all they take in. They think the plutocrat's crap is reality. They will never realize the plutocrats are playing them every which way. Anyone who isn't extremely wealthy who votes republican is a dupe.
DeleteThere is only one promise, drain the swamp and get out trump you are fired. You have met the wall with fire and fury. Welcome to America dotard dildo. GEE.
ReplyDeleteSeem to me that his pronouncement of only backing incumbents this fall, he's not draining the swamp but stirring the cesspool.
DeleteJake Tapper is my new hero...https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/trump-rages-jake-tapper-flunky-after-he
ReplyDeleteThey are going to continue to ship them overseas,nothing to stop them.
ReplyDeleteThey could have put a provision in the tax scam bill inorder to receive the tax cut a certsin percentage of the work force must be located in the US if they were really concerned about American workers.
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ReplyDelete"Trump After Saudi Palace Coup: ‘We’ve Put Our Man on Top’
"It’s MBS who brokers Trump’s Louis XIV-like reception in Riyadh, a gaudy spectacle of adulation in which the Saudis assembled a host of Middle Eastern strongmen to seal a symbolic allegiance with Trump through touching a bizarre glowing sphere. “Jared’s gotten the Arabs on his side,” Wolff quotes Trump. When MBS moved in November to purge his opposition, Trump “would tell friends that he and Jared had engineered a Saudi coup,” Wolff writes, with Trump boasting: “We’ve put our man on top!”"
"MBS, now entrenched as crown prince, already got what he wanted from Trump."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-after-saudi-palace-coup-weve-put-our-man-on-top?ref=home
https://www.snopes.com/trump-touch-orb-saudi-arabia/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/netanyahu-tiptoes-around-u-s-threat-to-cut-off-palestinian-aid-idUSKBN1EW0M4
Deletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5243819/Israel-names-20-banned-NGOs-anti-boycott-push.html
DeleteYour ass has a better chance of making America Great again than the ass in the White House.
ReplyDeleteCatchy meaningless slogans are about all Trump voters respond to. They are ignorant of the man-child's nature because they cannot see.
Deletehttps://thinkprogress.org/companies-gop-tax-bonuses-layoffs-fdf07fdf90d2/
ReplyDelete"Comcast and AT&T were among the businesses that claimed Republican lawmakers’ effort to restructure the tax code in favor of wealthy corporations would allow them to be more generous to their workers, and publicly announced $1,000 year-end bonuses for their employees. The CEOs of both companies specifically cited the tax bill in separate press releases touting these “special” bonuses." NEXT>
YOUR FIRED!
There are no non-racist trump supporters. If you support(ed) rump, you either support, condoned or tolerated racism. Period.
ReplyDeleteOT?"“good people don’t smoke marijuana,”
ReplyDelete" According to the ACLU, half of the drug arrests made in the U.S. are marijuana arrests."
"As for the “growing drug crisis” Sessions refers to, the only growing drug crisis in America is the opioid crisis, and the legalization of marijuana could have a chance of containing that."There is still more research to be done on legalizing marijuana, but Sessions’ fight is nonsensical."
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/07/legalizing-marijuana-is-risky-but-not-for-the-reasons-jeff-sessions-says/