Pressured By Trump, Carrier Will Keep Jobs Here In The USA.
Pretty impressive, no?
Too bad (like everything else Trump says) it's a lie.
Yes, Carrier may be keeping a measly number of jobs in the US,but it had nothing to do with being pressured by Trump; quite the opposite is true.

United Technologies – Carrier’s parent company – was basically bribed with taxpayer dollars to keep a few hundred jobs in Indiana – and it had nothing to do with Trump himself.

According to CNBC, “There were new incentives on offer from the state of Indiana, where Pence is governor, that helped clear a path for the agreement.”

In other words, Pence served up a massive, taxpayer-funded handout to the company in order to score a short-term PR win. Trump will claim victory on Thursday when, really, it was a state-funded handout that convinced Carrier to keep some of its employees in the state.

The deal also represents a huge departure from Trump’s campaign-season rhetoric, when he repeatedly promised to take a tough stance on companies, specifically Carrier which Trump promised to penalize with a 35 percent tariff if they moved operations to Mexico.Trump and Pence allowed the company to blackmail the Indiana government in order to have a nice photo-op.  

Trump claims that the Carrier deal is saving 1,000 jobs, for the record it is only saving 800, but for the sake of simplicity and consistency, we’ll use Trump’s number of 1,000.

Obama’s economic policy created 178 Trump Carrier deals in a month, with the cost to taxpayers of $0, compared to the cost to Indiana taxpayers of $7 million for Trump’s deal.

Today it was announced:
The Obama recovery surged by adding 178,000 new private sector jobs in November. This is the equivalent of 178 Trump deals with Carrier at zero cost to taxpayers.

Last edited by DollyLongstaff (12/02/2016 12:38 pm)