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It is not good news for everyone.
On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump traveled to the Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Indiana to tout the deal he helped orchestrate to keep about 800 manufacturing jobs in the United States in exchange for state and federal incentives, including $7 million from Indiana.
Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen. Its not going to happen, Ill tell you right now, Trump said during a speech at the factory.
What Trump didnt mention, either then or during a subsequent thank you rally later Thursday in Cincinnati, is that the deal he and Vice President-elect Mike Pence helped broker wont prevent Carrier from outsourcing more jobs than are being saved in Indiana. The company will keep about 800 jobs at the Indianapolis plant, but will still move 600 jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico. Another 700 jobs are being moved to Mexico from a separate factory in Huntington, Indiana, which will be closed.
In sum, about 800 American jobs are being saved, but another 1,300 are disappearing. Those painful details were acknowledge in a letter Carrier sent to affected workers on Thursday that was posted to Twitter by Indianapolis-based journalist Rafael Sánchez.
https://thinkprogress.org/carrier-letter-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-read-bccb2eee9c3d#.43e8r1t3r
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,593 posts)Too bad that the folks who voted for him didn't.
K&R
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,600 posts)hatrack
(59,584 posts)Yeah, no shit.
CatWoman
(79,296 posts)Carrier Got A Taxpayer Handout Because Trump Owns Stock In Their Parent Company
By Jason Easley on Fri, Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:53 pm
The Carrier deal has turned into a prime example of the sorts of conflicts
of interest that will be coming to the White House with Donald Trump. It
turns out the president-elect gave Carrier $7 million in taxpayer money
and he owns stock in Carrier's parent company, United Technologies.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)not a very good negotiator
murielm99
(30,736 posts)No wonder he has declared bankruptcy so many times.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)Thanks, Obama!
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)vanlassie
(5,670 posts)Ought to be the message.