Trump works through Thanksgiving
Donald Trump may be spending Thanksgiving with his family in his Florida club Mar-a-Lago, but the President-elect promises he hasn’t stopped working. On Thursday he tweeted: ‘I am working hard, even on Thanksgiving, trying to get Carrier A.C. Company to stay in the U.S. (Indiana). MAKING PROGRESS – Will know soon!’
Earlier this year Carrier announced that it would relocate its production plant to Mexico, causing the loss of 1,400 US jobs in Indianapolis. In a campaign speech in the city, Trump promised he would ‘tax the hell’ out of Carrier’s Mexico-produced products – to the tune of 35 per cent – to make them change their mind. Carrier responded to Trump’s tweet with one of his own, saying: ‘Carrier has had discussions with the incoming administration and we look forward to working together. Nothing to announce at this time.’
I have seen an endless number of announcements that a company is shipping jobs overseas. I have never once seen a President care, let alone spend his Thanksgiving trying to keep those jobs in the country. The general assumption always was the jobs would go, and it was no big deal.
I hate to beat a dead horse, but again you have one psychology that views each job as vitally important and requiring of conservation and protection, and another which views jobs as ever present, and able to be lost with no cost.
America is now entering a period where the rest of the world is still operating in a very r-mode, while our leadership is about to turn K, and do it hard. This would lead one to believe that the US will enter the Apocalypse with a superior amount of resources.
Now all Trump needs to do is apply K-stimuli to the nation, so it enters that Apocalypse with a superior K-psychology as well.
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Still not getting at the root cause — the US government constantly checks businesses to make sure they’re hiring and not firing certain types of Americans. So you have to employ incompetent-Americans and also employ competent-Americans at the same wage to clean up their messes.
Whereas in Mexico the workers are all just plain unhyphenated Mexicans, so you can hire and fire anyone you want. It may be worth paying a 35% tariff (which you will of course pass on to your customers) just to keep the EEOC out of your hair.
Very True.
You are not beating a dead horse, AC, you are hand riding a hot horse.
Not if, but when, Trump says Carrier changed their mind, America will wake up bigly.
K-stimuli seems to have hit Europe pretty effectively over the past few years as well – they’re beginning to have a collective amygdala awakening and once again perceive the in-group/out-group dichotomy like they’re all coming out of a drunken stupor. Populist politicians spewing K rhetoric are winning positions of power and migrant violence is getting worse – ironically the worse it gets and the faster it happens the sooner we’ll see severe backlash from the dormant K’s. Recent migrant riots have spanned 8 countries (several have occurred in a few of these): Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, France, UK, Sweden, Germany, Belgium. http://cruxenigma.blogspot.com/2016/11/african-migrants-riot-in-italy-when-r.html
http://cruxenigma.blogspot.com/2016/11/more-recent-migrant-riots-in-europe.html#more
Very True.
I was just listening to David Emory’s ‘For the Record’ – http://spitfirelist.com/category/for-the-record
and it turns out Trump isn’t big on saving American jobs, or wasn’t, historically. When he needed a building demolished some of his people got Polish illegals to do it for $5 / hour, working 84 hour weeks. When challenged, Trump fought it all the way and finally settled.
Not saying he can’t have a late-life switch of identification from his own ego and wealth, to his country and people, as is common as the end comes into view, though.
I think it is different if you are in a system, competing against others playing by those rules. If your business has to win, you do what you need to in order to win. I could see myself saying “Hire foreigners,” if that is what my competition was doing, and the other choice was to lose, and see my company go down and all my employees on the street. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t change those rules once I came in, or hate them as I played under them.
Exactly. Unilateral disarmament is a losing strategy. As is dying with your principles fully intact; which is the cuckservative way.
That said, I really do get the sense that Trump is a different man now. Something I can fully empathize with as I grow older (now 53).