"450X_FTW" (mistermic)
10/06/2016 at 07:42 • Filed to: None
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"450X_FTW" (mistermic)
10/06/2016 at 07:42 • Filed to: None | 1
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When Drumpf calls out Ford, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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When Drumpf calls out Chrysler, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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I prefer the Chrysler method, more direct and no PC terms
Party-vi
> 450X_FTW
10/06/2016 at 08:04 |
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One was also 4 years ago, when Trump was a rich blowhard. Now he’s a rich blowhard that might be making policy for said automakers in half a year.
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450X_FTW
> Party-vi
10/06/2016 at 08:26 |
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Wants to tax automakers 35% for bringing cars in from Mexico. Not sure why he doesn’t want to make the same tax for companies importing their tailored suits from Mexico as well......
Under_Score
> 450X_FTW
10/06/2016 at 08:56 |
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Which significant, large, and well known group of people has been living in terrible conditions for the last couple of decades? The auto builders from Michigan. Along with other factors, Michigan has been doing terribly since the car factories left. Back in the day, families were able to live well with parents that went to the Ford, GM, whatever factory and produced cars. Now that these factories are gone due to cheaper labor in countries such as Mexico (unions were a big part of the disappearance, but that strays away from this), many in the region are unemployed.
I read a piece a few weeks back (on Breitbart, but I believe it was originally on Reuters) about how the residents of a former factory town were switching from the Democrats for the first time to support Trump. The promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to America was a big reason for Trump support; companies outsourcing are what ruined these towns and communities of people.
TL;DR: Trump is appealing to the former auto workers because they were a major part of the economy, and now that they’re jobless, they’ve been ignored by other politicians and candidates.
jimz
> 450X_FTW
10/06/2016 at 09:07 |
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no, he wants to specifically tax Ford 35%. I’m not sure if that runs afoul of the Constitution as a bill of attainder.
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jimz
> Under_Score
10/06/2016 at 09:08 |
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“The promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to America was a big reason for Trump support; companies outsourcing are what ruined these towns and communities of people.”
the problem is that it’s an empty promise. There’s no “there” there. a large portion of those lost manufacturing jobs have been lost to automation.
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Under_Score
> jimz
10/06/2016 at 09:14 |
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That’s a good point, but it’s the factory people that like Trump’s promise. My family has never been involved with factories.
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450X_FTW
> Under_Score
10/06/2016 at 09:24 |
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Michigan is doing great ever since the auto bailout. I know I worked for an OEM for 3 years starting in 2011, now 2 years on the supplier side. The plant that trump claims is shutting down and shipping all their jobs to Mexico, laying everyone off, is being retooled to produce a different type of vehicle. No jobs are going to be loss.
Milky
> Under_Score
10/06/2016 at 09:32 |
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“So Ford is leaving, you see that their small car division, leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio, they’re all leaving.” - Trump
Unemployment in Michigan is 4.5 percent; Ohio rate is 4.7 percent. Both are better than the national average of 4.9 percent
“ Michigan has been doing terribly since the car factories left” Michigan is doing well.
“Back in the day” okay grandpa.
jasmits
> Milky
12/05/2016 at 11:10 |
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TIL, I always pretty much assumed that unemployment in Michigan was pretty bad.
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Milky
> jasmits
12/05/2016 at 11:44 |
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In the heart of the recession we had one of the highest unemployment rates IIRC. I don’t want to say all of the auto jobs are back, but it seems like most are. I graduated 2.5 years and have had zero issues finding an auto related job in Detroit.