Carrier to preserve 'more than a 1000 jobs' instead of 'close to a 1000'

The interesting thing about this carrier situation is how mad liberals are that these people get to keep their jobs.
Cahoots was legit melting about it on here yesterday.

No doubt they didn't want this to happen. They'd rather play politics than see these people keep their jobs.

That's 1000 more votes for trump in 2020

I read that these folks will still probably be laid off in the 2-3 years. Regardless, if they can be temporarily saved that's good news for them. I hate to see anyone lose their job.

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The interesting thing about this carrier situation is how mad liberals are that these people get to keep their jobs.
Cahoots was legit melting about it on here yesterday.

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A huge reason why we lost the election....arrogance.


What is truly amazing to me though is how interested the GOP and the right is in the middle class all of a sudden. If this new found interest in solidifying the middle class is genuine and the Right and the GOP has lost interest in being the party of billionaires and introduces policies which will make the middle class stronger I will never vote for a democrat again as long as I live.

I sincerely doubt the sincerity, however. Not necessarily of Trump, but I sincerely doubt that the GOP has suddenly realized that policies that keep sending jobs overseas is a bad idea for the middle class.

I don't care where the support comes from...left, right, center...it makes me no difference....if you are going to support the middle class with policy you had me at hello. If Donald Trump needs his anus licked for saving any of these jobs....the numbers vary between 400 and 1200 from what I have seen....it needs to be done....I don't care how many gay marriages are nullified, how many men in dresses have to piss in the men's room or how many uninsured people there are in the United States....at the basis of all of that is the need for the middle class to be strong....when folks ain't scared of being foreclosed on and going bankrupt they will once again be open minded enough to care about one another.....but GOP policy for the last 40 years has pitted us against one another and removed any compassion for one another from our society....and the democrats were in a foot race to keep up and, as evidence by the down playing of the importance of a single job being saved to the individual whose job it is, are still in that mind set. I don't know what if any influence Trump had BUT he made the fricking effort which is more than can be said about any President from either party as far as I know forever....at least since Reagan was elected.

This country became great because the middle class was strong....the GOP set out to destroy that strength and the democrats couldn't have cared less as they promoted an agenda of individuals having the right to do what felt good to them while both sides lined their pockets with money and power. If Trump reverses that and strengthens the middle class I will openly admit I have been wrong for years and will gladly be a Trumpkin....

I am not overly optimistic that the GOP has changed its stripes as far as working people go. What I am VERY optimistic about is the fact that working people are still interested enough to be involved....and the GOP is now going to have to answer to the working class like neither party has ever had to listen to them....because the GOP has the reigns now completely....from the lowest levels of local government to Washington the GOP has the tiller...any sort of pothole is now the GOP's to own...if they prove capable of strengthening the middle class, regardless of the damage done to progressive social policies (if woman wanted an abortion they should have turned out and voted...sorry but if you die in a botched abortion that is on you young lady), they will have a convert in me for life....because I know where progressivism started...I know what conditions were like before Social Security and how much resistance there was at the time to such an idea...we will get back to the point where we can once again be concerned about where a man in a skirt pisses....but we will be there in numbers as secure working people and a strong, viable middle class....

I'm not reading all of that, but if you don't think the GOP has been interested in the middle class you have not been paying attention.

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I'm not reading all of that, but if you don't think the GOP has been interested in the middle class you have not been paying attention.

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I have been a member of the middle class since 1965 and in that time the GOP has gained strength at every level of government and the middle class has shrunk and lost strength. The GOP has never given a tinkers damn for the middle class until this election....

That is not to suggest that the democrats have been any better....but they have had to pay attention to labor for a long time....something they stopped doing when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers...


What we have seen in the election of Trump is a new era in the rise of American working people....this is exactly how labor unions started in the United States in the first place. Accept this time around labor and working people are in a much better place than they were the first time around....the first time it was illegal to even mention a labor union let alone be a member of one. We are witnessing a populist working class movement...something that hasn't happened since the 30's because working people were in pretty good shape....they are not ever going back to the days that neo-con policy had us heading toward...the GOP has set itself up to be the new party of labor, organized or otherwise...we'll see how that works out....

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Neither party has given a crap about the middle class for years. Trump hit a cord with the middle class and that is why he is president-elect

That's a good point. There's definitely a multiplier effect

On average, 1 direct job supports the addition of 4.6 indirect jobs. It ranges per industry but this helps paint the picture

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And can you honestly claim "the GOP has gained strength at every level of government" when the GOP itself is significantly further to the left of the Democratic party of 50 years ago?

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I may be wrong about that but I think it is a correct statement to say that the GOP will control more levels of government on January 21 2017 than they have ever controlled...and probably more than any one party has controlled ever in the history of the United States.

The GOP is not to left of the 1966 Democratic party (50 years ago) but I will allow that it is to the left of the Democratic party of nearly 70 years ago when the south was locked into the Democratic party and Truman hadn't yet integrated the military....

You are correct however that the progressive movement won years ago but the reasons are far from anything man can control....the only thing that is certain in life is change and change and progress are more or less the same thing...so of course society is more progressive today than it was a year ago. That is not to say that there is not a large contingency of people who would have us as a society regress...which isn't going to happen.

Conservatism does not require a commitment to never progressing....it is about doing so at a controlled pace....that was a big part of the problem with the civil rights movement....the south was changing anyway....it just wasn't doing it fast enough and when it was forced to change faster than the people of the south were ready to accept it created all manner of ill side effects. The same thing happened in the south before the civil war....slavery was economically unsustainable...but the south was unwilling to change as fast as the anti-slavery movement was demanding and created a situation that was untenable to either side...


As far as the size, scope and reach of the federal government increasing dramatically has it? When compared to the wealth of the nation, the size of the nation and the role the nation plays in world politics has the Federal Government really increased? I know the cost has and regulations beget regulations but has it kept pace with the growth of the nation overall???