'I'm angry and scared': Trump-backing CEO whines that his proposed tariffs will 'cripple my company'

[Soph0571]

Even though Buchzeiger backed Trump in 2016 and “supports” his “campaign to level U.S. trade imbalances,” she didn’t expect him to enact anything like what he has proposed.

“I am… angry, frustrated and a little scared, because the unintended consequences of the president’s $50 billion tariffs on China would cripple my business in Auburn Hills and strip my 50 employees of their good-paying jobs,” she writes. “This is crazy.”

She then goes on to explain how her company’s supply chain does have some jobs in Asia — but she says those jobs also pave the way for other jobs here in the United States. Trump’s tariffs threaten to disrupt her whole supply chain, she says, which also puts her American employees’ jobs at risk.

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/im-angry-scared-trump-backing-ceo-whines-proposed-tariffs-will-cripple-company/|

Another great example of Karma being a complete bitch!

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Suck it up, buttercup. nt

[ffr]

40. No kidding! +1 What a self-centered stupid ignoramus! I hope her company feels

the pain equal to the pain she put on our nation.

[Phentex]

45. yep!

[SharonAnn]

56. She voted for him and would doit again. So, i don't have much sympathy.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "she didn't expect him to enact anything like what he has proposed."

Because 60 million of you voted based on the dog whistles you heard whereas 63 million knew better.

[forgotmylogin]

36. "But scorpion...you promised you'd not sting meeeeee..."

"...despite your inherent nature...(glub glub) you promiiiiised...(glub glub)"

[bullwinkle428]

49. He sure loved reading that snake story/poem at every campaign rally!!

Of course, all of his brain dead followers couldn't comprehend the idea that THEY were the poor, unsuspecting woman in the story, and Chump was the snake!

[Dulcinea]

51. When people tell you what they're going to do...

...believe them. That also applies to people who tell you what and who they are. Con men gonna con.

[tavernier]

3. I read the whole article.

She remains naive and clueless right to the end.

[elehhhhna]

5. at least she got her tax cut.

[tavernier]

9. And perhaps her aging parents will be thrown out

of their elderly care facility because of those cuts.

No, I don’t wish any bad luck on anyone, despite their horrible voting choices, but in life we all learn quickly that actions have consequences.

[olegramps]

19. It is not bad luck, but actions have consequences. They made their bed, now sleep in it.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

47. They don't learn

They just operate on fear

[louis-t]

43. And THAT is the story. bush gave me $600 tax refund. Cost me $100,000

in income, but got my $600.

[TNNurse]

4. Having trouble finding any sympathy for someone who supported him for a moment.

Sorry for her employees.

[mercuryblues]

27. She still supports him

this is her begging for HER company to get a waiver, because she believes trump cares. Hell this isn't even about her disapproval of the tariffs, she just think they should be applied to other businesses, not hers.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180513/blog200/660491/how-my-presidents-tariffs-would-cripple-my-company

[louis-t]

44. She believes if she could just 'splain it to him

he would give her a waiver. Cuz he really cares.

[mercuryblues]

48. Which feeds into this OP

Trump voters stay loyal because they feel disrespected

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210612538

Trumplodytes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. HE SAID HE WAS GONNA.

[jpak]

7. Cry me a river

You asked for it - you got it.

[dameatball]

8. Yet she still supports him and thinks he had good intentions.

What she means is she wanted tariffs but not tariffs on things that might affect her. I get it. Selfish, arrogant Trumpist.

[CanonRay]

10. Yes, tariffs on somebody else

that's the way these people think...what's in it for me, fuck everybody else.

[keithbvadu2]

33. She is the 'everybody else'... no tariffs on Trump family products?

[NewJeffCT]

18. That's the mentality of a lot of Trump voters

not just the rich.

They deserved their unemployment benefits, but those black/brown people are freeloaders hoping to make a living collecting unemployment.

Their abortion was justified (or their daughter's abortion), but those slutty women in college or those black/brown women are just trying to get knocked up and then use abortion as birth control.

[treestar]

62. Exactly. If they need help, they deserve it

anyone else is cheating the system.

[hatrack]

11. YOU VOTED FOR HIM . . .

You voted for an incompetent, corrupt rageaholic asshole, 'cuz Murca and Money and Jeebus.

And now you're high and dry while he works hard to help Chinese telecom/phone companies, to soothe the tax-inflicted wounds of the very richest of the rich, and to suck as much stolen money as possible into his own swollen gullet.

Paying attention now, you stupid fucking Republican cow?

[Roy Rolling]

12. This

[Johnny2X2X]

13. Bribes

You didn't pay a big enough bribe, cough up a few million for Trump and he'll listen to you for 5 minutes.

[Initech]

14. Well when you fall for a con artist, don't be surprised when you get conned.

[BSdetect]

15. She's more worried about her profit than her employees losing jobs.

[lunasun]

29. +++ typical repug only concerned for self

[Sherman A1]

16. You pays your money

And you takes your chances.

Tough Luck.

[Lugnut]

17. Bummer.

[stevenleser]

20. Lucerne Intl CEO Mary Buchzeiger, let me get this straight...

https://www.facebook.com/steve.leser/posts/10156258000169361?notif_id=1526305186801362&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

...you voted for a lunatic who ran on crazing things like blowing up trade with Asia and now you are upset they are blowing up trade with Asia?

[AllaN01Bear]

21. you voted for him donald ding dong.

[dalton99a]

22. Democrats scare her more, so she'll vote for him again

It's guaranteed

[Botany]

23. Oh well his 4,000 lawsuits either against him or times that Trump sued other parties, ...

.... all his failed businesses, and his 6 (?) bankruptcies might have given you a clue
Ms. Buchzeiger but still you voted for him.

[Firestorm49]

24. Maybe she should do some soul searching and change party affiliation.

But for now, she got what she deserves. I feel for her employees.

[catbyte]

25. She was perfectly fine if the orange horror's policies devastated "those people",

she thought her lily white Republican ass was safe. Well, suck it up, buttercup, this is what YOU voted for. I'm sure she also wanted to "stick it to that bitch", well, guess who's stuck now? The only ones I feel sorry for are her employees who are going to lose their jobs because of their jackass boss.

Don't cry for me, Auburn Hills...

[workinclasszero]

26. Sending thoughts and prayers to ignorant deplorable CEO's

[keithbvadu2]

35. You're too kind.

[Turbineguy]

28. Another frog and scorpion tale.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Typical Repug attitudes - never accepting fault.

That deer looking in the headlights attitude. I'm sure she's found a way to blame Democrats for this and from reading the article, she will never fault Trump.

She not only drinks the Kool-Aid, she actually helps make it by spreading this bullshit. She may even be one of those that would proudly let tRump grab her by the you-know-what.

Maybe she needs to pay Cohen a visit with a plain envelope in hand, LOL.

.....

[Lonestarblue]

31. No excuse for not doing your homework before the election.

Anyone who had bothered to do a few Google searches in 2016 would have found out about Trump’s frauds (e.g., Trump University), his poor management that drove six businesses into bankruptcy, the fines for his casino not following banking rules (hard to do that when you’re laundering money for the Russians), the Polish workers he hired to work on Trump Tower and then refused to give them all their pay because they could do nothing as they were in the country illegally, the numerous lawsuits small business owners had to file to get paid for work completed, his so-called charity that used donations to buy things like a full-sized portrait of Trump as well as paying business expenses, his constant lies so that even his own lawyers attended meetings in pairs so they could substiantiate what he said, and perhaps worst of all his long-time association with Roy Cohn, his disbarred lawyer with his bag of Mafia-like dirty tricks. All this should have eliminated him from even being the GOP candidate, much less being elected. Then add his hateful rhetoric about Mexicans and Muslims, as well as his overt calls for police to use more force to hurt people when arresting them, and his incitement of violence among his supporters, and you have a known entity. If people are surprised, it means they didn’t bother doing any research whatsoever prior to voting for literally what historians will say has been the worst president in the history of the U.S.

[IronLionZion]

32. "I've got to believe he will change his mind, grant sensible exclusions"

One of the reasons for the strong Trump economy: More workers in the U.S. make products that are made from steel than make steel itself. Billions of dollars are pumped into the American economy by the unique and ingenious ways U.S. companies use steel and aluminum components — like we do at Lucerne.

I wonder: Does President Trump know that his tariff on imported components threatens almost every manufacturing job in Michigan?

Does he know that my little company in my little corner of Michigan would lose 90 percent of its business overnight? Does he understand that a 25 percent tax on the components Lucerne uses would evaporate my profit margins? That it would shut us down?

I don't think he does. Because I know my president cares — and I've got to believe he will change his mind, grant sensible exclusions, and help companies like Lucerne make America great again.

Hoping he'll only screw other people. My brain hurts from reading her impeccable logic.

[NCjack]

64. What a dumb witch. She will vote Trump beyond the point where her

profit margin deteriorates more than her withered fingers. Vanish, witch!

[John Fante]

76. Does President Trump know that his tariff... threatens almost every

manufacturing job in Michigan?"

Trump showed throughout his campaign that he was embarrassingly clueless on all the issues, including trade. This woman is was either too stupid to notice (doubtful), or she was so enamored Trump's racist rhetoric that she didn't care that he was dumber than a stump. Either way, she can fuck right off.

[pamdb]

34. trump knuckle-dragger

You broke it, you bought it, snowflake.

[awesomerwb1]

37. And yet when asked if she'd vote for Dump again.....

she'd probably say yes.

[WhiteTara]

38. You can call and sympathize with her. Here's

the phone number
248 674 7210 here extension is 3103

She didn't answer the phone when I called but I did leave her a message. I told her that she knew he was a snake and scorpion when she took him in and he stung her.

[onecaliberal]

39. I hope he bankrupts all those assholes.

[barbtries]

41. we'll all suffer

for the idiocy of the minority and the complicity of the feckless republicans and the perfidy of the president.

do i feel sorry for her? fuck no. what was she thinking?!

[BobTheSubgenius]

42. Maybe one more hat will fix it.

Why don't you just put your trust in MAGA and just know that things will work out fine for you. But don't forget the hat.

[mac56]

46. 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,'

sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

[DFW]

50. I wonder how her 50 employees voted.

If they voted for Trump, too, then let the business go under as they quote their bibles: as ye sow, so shall ye reap.

If you insist on shooting yourself in the foot, go ahead, but don't go complaining afterwards that your foot hurts.

[duforsure]

52. He better get used to it...

Unless he pays rump's tribune to him, he's doing like Putin. In Russia under putin he corrupted all businesses , and only the most corrupt won control over their industry sectors , while the others were criminalized with corrupt courts to get control of them. Rump's doing that now here , setting it up to threaten with , and corrupt it where he can pick who'll do the controlling for HIM. Just like Putin did in Russia.

[procon]

53. She had selective hearing and only heard what she wanted to hear.

She wanted to vote Republican and she heard Trump promising that he was good for business. She chose not to hear Trump vowing to make protectionist policies that would isolate the US and break trade agreements that would shut foreign markets to American businesses.

Lessons learned, better late than never; don't trust Trump, and Republicans are detrimental to business.

[muntrv]

54. .....

[LonePirate]

55. He will receive no sympathy from me. Elections have consequences as the right loves to remind us.

[Blue_Tires]

57. Deal with it, fucko

[BadGimp]

58. I dislike going negative on people but...

[Hassler]

59. Elections have consequences.

[lpbk2713]

60. Sell a couple of your vacation homes.

And fall back on the profits you've been making up until now.

Poor baby.

[JHB]

61. From her company's "About" page:

Lucerne International, founded in Oakland County, Michigan in 1993, provides cast, stamped and forged components and assemblies to the automotive and heavy truck industries

As a leading automotive supply chain in the United States, with staff members operating throughout Asia, Lucerne International has expanded operations globally by leading a development initiative to increase both supply and customer base.

This lady takes the cake. And licks the bowl of "dumbass" icing.

[gopiscrap]

63. fuck her

I hope her company fails big time...if you're stupid enough to vote republican then you get what you get. In fact I'll laugh my ass off if she loses everything

[Pepsidog]

65. I hope she loses everything and is left destitute. I pray for it

[dalton99a]

66. "It was her idea to move manufacturing to China"

https://www.benzinga.com/general/entrepreneurship/17/05/9501553/the-boxer-and-the-ceo-a-detroit-love-story

Mary, the daughter of a GM executive, had factory jobs growing up and was expected to work. Her father started Lucerne in 1993 and Mary went to work there. It was her idea to move manufacturing to China.

“We were barreling along, a million or two a shot [per year],” she said. “Now we’re about $32 million in sales.”

She took over operations in 2006 and bought out her father in 2015. “It’s all mine now,” she said.

[jes06c]

67. Hope t was worth it to her to stick it to the Mexicans and Muslims

[ProfessorGAC]

68. Per Wiki, This Is A Private Company. . .

. . . $1 to $5 million in revenues. She's dumb enough to think that a relatively small business like that matters one whit to the mob in the WH?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

69. Read this in a loud and shrill voice: "BUT I VOOOOTED FOR HIM!!!11!" nt

[ProfessorGAC]

70. Afraid I'll Get A Sore Throat

Does it have to be shrill, or would whiny be ok?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

71. Shrill. Whiny is for people who voted for Stein. nt

[Honeycombe8]

72. If she donated enough, Trump will carve out a niche for her business.

That's the way he rolls! That crazy guy!

[ProudLib72]

73. Are there people outside of DU who actually feel sorry for her ilk?

I've noticed a severe drop in the "reaching out" crowd here over the last six months, but maybe there are still some who can muster the sympathy.

[RainCaster]

74. Pay me a dollar and I will give a shit

This guy needs to STFU

[struggle4progress]

75. "I didn't realize that voting for a clueless nitwit could help put a clueless nitwit in office!"