Good day all. It looks like President-Elect Trump has already hit the ground running in regards to bringing jobs back to America. Carrier, which announced during the election that it was closing it’s Indianapolis plant and shipping the jobs to Mexico, has announced it is reversing it’s decision.
Back when Carrier made the announcement, Trump used this as proof that the so called “Free Trade” agreements made over the last 25 years were a complete failure. He also said that company’s could ship their plants overseas, but they would pay a tariff that would make it to expensive to import their products back into the United States. Now, with the election of Donald Trump, and the probability that he will put in place tariffs to punish countries that abuse the free trade deals previous administrations made, Corporations are rethinking their outsourcing plans. Carrier is the first to change their minds. Here are some of the details from the New York Times:
From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move over 2,000 of them from Indiana to Mexico was a tailor-made talking point for him on the stump.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump and Mike Pence, Indiana’s governor and the vice president-elect, plan to appear at Carrier’s Indianapolis factory to announce a deal with the company to keep roughly 1,000 jobs in the state, according to officials with the transition team as well as Carrier.
That’s a good start of course. We also have Ford Motor company canceling plans to move one of their plant to Mexico as well.
Mr. Trump will be hard-pressed to alter the economic forces that have hammered the Rust Belt for decades, but forcing Carrier and its parent company, United Technologies, to reverse course is a powerful tactical strike that will hearten his followers even before he takes office.
Actually, it will be rather easy. No President, Trump included, can create good private sector jobs. What a president, along with Congress, can do is make it far easier for companies to open plants in the United States. It isn’t just lowering taxes for corporations, although that plays a part, it’s making it less expensive to keep or open plants in the United States in the first place. This means crushing the regulatory agencies that have done so much damage over the decades to the American economy.
“I’m ready for him to come,” said Robin Maynard, a 24-year veteran of Carrier who builds high-efficiency furnaces and earns almost $24 an hour. “Now I can put my daughter through college without having to look for another job.”
Trump took to Twitter to make the announcement of course.
Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.We will keep our companies and jobs in the U.S. Thanks Carrier
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Nov. 30, 2016
You know that just had to hurt both the GOP(e) “Free Trader” types as well as the New York Times that Trump was able to pull this off even before being sworn in to office.
And just as only a confirmed anti-Communist like Richard Nixon could go to China, so only a businessman like Mr. Trump could take on corporate America without being called a Bernie Sanders-style socialist. If Barack Obama had tried the same maneuver, he’d probably have drawn criticism for intervening in the free market.
This is because Obama and Sanders are Marxists and have never done an honest days work in their lives, let alone run a business. Besides, Trump isn’t using the government to force the companies to stay here, he’s going to use it to make it profitable to stay in America. Obama didn’t care and Sanders would have preferred to nationalize everything.
In exchange for keeping the factory running in Indianapolis, Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence are expected to reiterate their campaign pledges to be friendlier to businesses by easing regulations and overhauling the corporate tax code, according to a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump.
And there is the knife to the guts of the Chamber of Commerce types.
The message from Mr. Trump that captivated the Carrier workers — keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States after decades of losses to overseas factories and automation — resonated throughout the Rust Belt. That promise, plus his opposition to pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement, were key reasons he was able to edge out Hillary Clinton in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
As I mentioned before, the primary reason for companies to move out of the United States is costs. It isn’t the cost of hiring people directly. It isn’t even the costs of having a unionized work force. It’s all the regulations, mandates and taxes piled on to corporations that force them to look at moving out of America. Once Trump is sworn in along with the new Congress, Look for virtual nuclear strikes to commence on all the federal agencies that have badly harmed the economy. Of course, the New York Times had to take a poke at this good news.
Political symbolism aside, saving 1,000 Carrier jobs doesn’t loom so large in an economy that’s created an average of 181,000 jobs a month this year, noted Jared Bernstein, a liberal economist who served as adviser in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.
Still, he confessed a grudging admiration for Mr. Trump’s political jujitsu. “If I weren’t so scared of the damage a Trump administration might do, I’d find it refreshing to see an administration fighting for factory jobs like this,” he said. “That said, no one should confuse what Trump is doing here with sustainable economic policy.”
Stupid moonbat. You mean all the wonderful economic plans you and your ilk been pushing for decades? And that 181K new jobs? That’s just barely breaking even. I’m sure you’ve also said in other places that the unemployment rate is under 5 percent. Shall I go into the differences between the U2 numbers and the U6 numbers again?
Why not? The U2 numbers only count people collecting unemployment. Once that has been exhausted, the government no longer counts you. You have ceased to exist as far as the statisticians maintaining the U2 database are concerned. The U6 numbers count people who are not working or only working at crappy part time jobs. That rate is somewhere north of 10 percent, and probably closer to 15 percent. Speaking of moonbats, idiots and fools, (But I’m repeating myself), Robert Reich had to toss in his usual $14.65.
Over the long term, and for less prominent firms, the temptation to move to cheaper locales for manufacturing will stay great, said Robert Reich, a prominent liberal Democrat who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration.
“Memories are short but the economic fundamentals remain the same,” he said. “Wall Street is breathing down companies’ necks to cut costs, and the labor savings in Mexico is too great.”
Reich is another outright failure who’s few excursions from the halls of academia have been a total disaster. He has totally missed the point of what Trump wants to do. Reduce the costs of employing people and running a business in the United States.
People such as Robert Reich, the Chamber of Commerce, the GOP(e) and the Democrats, have for decades negotiated, and I use that word very loosely, trade deals that have freely shipped American jobs out of this country. All they have done is benefited the Wall Street types and the “One percent”, (And I hate using that phrase), types at the expense of the average American. We’re in for a few interesting years, and if Trump is able to pull off what we in “Flyover country” hope he does, it will drive a stake through the Progressive Establishment movement for decades.
Thatisall
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