The details are in. Only 800 jobs are being saved, plus 300 that weren't getting outsourced. They are giving $7M over 10 years in tax rebates, with the expectation of $16M investment. So, basically $875 rebate per job per year to stay. Mathematically it makes stupid simple sense. The employees would've probably happily take a $875 pay cut to keep their jobs. Overall though. Seems like a missed opportunity to smack the shit out of company to set an example. They are still outsourcing more than they are keeping.
Many think there may have been threats made to the parent company which gets about $6 billion a year in federal defense contracts. Usually republicans are publicly against this kind of thing. They certainly raised a stink when Obama helped a solar panel company. Picking companies to win is the same as picking companies to lose. Carrier now has a government provided advantage over other air condition manufactures. That in itself isn't so bad but when it's used for personal political gain it's crony capitalism.
The Solandra stuff is more analogous to Tesla. Companies almost entirely dependent on govt funding. Carrier got a standard incentive to keep business local. Granted, it's SOP and not the tough talk Trump was spewing on the campaign trail. It is crony capitalism, but I'm not as idealistic as I once was. What is the alternative? Other companies aren't getting $700k, but also not required to spend $1.6M in Indiana either. This either didn't happen, or Trump is a terrible negotiator.
In Trumps own words. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/business/economy/trump-carrier-pence-jobs.html?_r=0
lol... this explains his many bankruptcies. I don't know exactly where I stand on Presidents directly negotiating with private companies yet. But the simple math is, UTX savings in Mexico is worth $0.08 a share. The federal contracts are worth $8.13 a share. They have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to take the net $8.05 and keep all jobs in Indiana. Trump had them by the balls and somehow got reverse trolled. That doesn't even include non-defense govt spending UTX may get. He should've gotten a full concession and reversal with the deck of cards he was holding.
Sanders would agree with you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...-to-beat-donald-trump/?utm_term=.b8c0dfbc3fe2
Trump is playing the long game. The first step is to give the opponent a false sense of superiority. It's gonna be huge.
What's the end game with Romney? Will Trump actually pick him for secretary of state or will we see a Stephen King type ending with Romney standing alone on stage covered in pigs blood? I called set up from the beginning. Once Romney kisses Trump's boot he can never again be a Never Trump.
The GOP is an anti-democratic party now. Their goal is to convince the majority of Americans that the role of government is to provide financing for autocratic corporations, not act as a check-and-balance to private interests.
Fucking lol at "Pizzagate." Right wing consipracy theorists on 4chan decided a pizza parlor was part of Hillary's satanic Illuminati child sexual slavery ring. So a crazy man with an AR-15 shot up the place. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-edgar-maddison-welch.html http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/100705403/pizzagate-the-truth
I actually enjoyed his initial and follow up trolling of China. But today he trolled the CIA and largest contractor in the DoD. He's playing a very dangerous game now....
Trump is taking the troll game to new heights. He wants to be more than just troll of the year. He wants to be troll of the century.
I can only imagine that one of the most retarded conversations in history went down when those two met.
Well it will be official in a few hours unless the electors go rogue. Some of the Colorado electors have been ordered to vote for Hillary after they announced they would be voting for an alternate republican in an effort to get more republicans to defect. It would take 37 electors to switch their vote to stop Trump.
I've suspected that a Trump victory wasn't necessarily going to be a GOP victory, as much as them just riding his coattails. He ended up trolling them on day one: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/u...ick&contentCollection=Politics&pgtype=article
They failed to steal the election from Trump. So what's next? Will there be an assassination attempt on inauguration day? A major terrorist attack in the US?