'He made promises that he didn't keep': Laid-off factory workers feel betrayed by Trump

[DonViejo]

The president has turned his focus to wider benefits of his tax overhaul after a campaign packed with pledges to keep jobs in the U.S.

By MEGAN CASSELLA 01/18/2018 05:01 AM EST

President Donald Trump’s path to becoming “the best jobs president that God ever created” was supposed to run straight through Indianapolis and the Carrier manufacturing plant that had for decades employed thousands of workers there.

Instead, more than a year after the then-president-elect stood before a crowd of cheering workers and trumpeted a deal to save their jobs — and months after the company’s name faded from the headlines and the president himself moved onto other talking points — more than 1,500 once-employed residents are now out of work, Indiana union officials say. More than 200 Carrier employees clocked out of their final shift at the plant just last week.

Trump’s campaign promises to punish companies that move factories overseas, to bring back manufacturing jobs and to revive the once-thriving Rust Belt sector became a constant refrain that helped him win the Midwest and ultimately the White House in the 2016 election. But it was also a pledge he’ll find difficult to keep.

Over the past year since he took office, the president who once pledged to slap tariffs on trading partners and crack down on China has so far softened or abandoned — at least for now — many of his hard-line stances on trade. Trump has moved instead to cut the corporate tax rate and launch a deregulatory push, heralding a wave of announcements from other companies planning to invest and create new U.S. jobs. The president plans to tout those achievements during a visit Thursday to Pennsylvania.

But those plans offer no comfort for the Steel Valley workers at companies like Carrier that had counted on him to keep their jobs in Indiana.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. This will be an issue for the Midterms...........

Used by the Democrats running for the House and Senate in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. These are important states for 2020 as well. If Democrats do well there in 2018, they will retain or gain seats in 2020 and retake the White House.

[randr]

2. Trump made promises he can't keep

The growth of the economy is due to a new model of commerce and manufacturing. It is not dependent on the coal mining and factory jobs of the past. He will not be taking America "back" to any place. The economy rules and even his petrol extraction supporters will be left in the dust.
I'll say it once again, "The stone age did not end due to a lack of stones".
The lsos is stuck in the past and has no concept of the future possibilities he could be steering us toward.
We will get there without him.

[Pendrench]

8. That's an excellent quote: "The stone age did not end due to a lack of stones."

[yallerdawg]

3. There is no reality in the Dotard's head.

He believes reality is what he tells us it is.

And he has a news channel to back him up.

[Botany]

4. Just like Trump "paid" all those people who worked for him

Trump is a con man w/no core values except himself.

[DFW]

5. That Trump was never going to keep the Carrier employees in their jobs was obvious

Apparently to all but them. They voted their hopes--not a wise thing to do when the man upon whom they were pinning their hopes was a well-known con man.

I don't blame them for having their hopes. I do blame them for voting against all rationality. There is nothing Hillary could have offered these people by telling them the truth. Only a lie would have placated them through the election. Trump gave them their lie. Hillary didn't. They rewarded Trump for his lie. Trump rewarded them with disdain.

If 30 million people are all down to their last $20, and have the choice of spending it food or a lottery ticket, and all 30 million buy lottery tickets, one of them will end up having made the right decision. But 29,999,999 of them will realize--too late, of course--that they fucked up.

[Javaman]

6. "There's a sucker born every minute" PT Barnum

and these are the very people that the right wing pray upon.

good people who still have this misguided belief that politicians will follow through with their promises no matter our outlandish or unfounded they might be.

desperate people need something to hang onto when their livelihoods hangs in the balance.

repukes seem to be experts at this, but in the same vein, the Democrats can make hay from this if they wish to.

let's hope they do.

[hatrack]

7. Yes, but you got to "Trump That Bitch", didn't you?

Surely that will fill your bellies and pay your rent for years to come.