Trump And Pence Actually Bribed Carrier To Keep Only Some Jobs In Indiana

[octoberlib]

The media is prepared to make a big splash over Donald Trump’s claim that he negotiated a deal with Carrier to keep jobs in Indiana it planned to take overseas.

But the reality is, like so much of the announcements that Trump has made and will continue to make in the White House, a lot of it is a smokescreen.

As the New York Times reports (after gushing about the deal with language like “Mr. Trump is a different kind of Republican, willing to take on big business, at least in individual cases”), the Indiana government – which is still under Mike Pence’s control as its current governor – had to bribe Carrier: “The state of Indiana also plans to give economic incentives to Carrier as part of the deal to stay, according to local officials.”

The Times also notes that the Carrier announcement has other strings attached for the future, as Trump and Pence plan to cut regulation that keeps employees and customers safe, while also giving away sweetheart corporate tax cuts which have been proven over history to not stimulate widespread economic activity.

Even with all of those giveaways, Carrier is keeping only 1,000 jobs in the state, less than half of the 2,100 it planned to move away in the first place. Already it looks like Trump, the so-called deal maker, got taken at the negotiating table once again.

http://oliverwillis.com/trump-pence-actually-bribed-carrier-keep-jobs-indiana/

[Horse with no Name]

1. It's all about optics

real live facts don't matter much to this crowd.

[anarch]

2. according to a person I spoke to who is happy about this election,

(although they did not actually vote) the President Elect has already "saved 16,000 jobs," and he's not even in office yet. Fox News as the only information source or something, I guess, but my point is that silly details and facts don't really matter at this point...people who have bought into the con job this far won't understand that they've been had, probably not even if the results of the new administration's policies actually kill them.

[unblock]

3. *he* didn't get "taken at the negotiating table". *he* got what he wanted.

it's the indiana workers who lost.

trump got a way to claim an early p.r. victory. what does he care if indiana "only" lost 1,100 jobs.

[MattP]

4. Who knows what kind of defense contracts the parant company will get

[Vinca]

5. The bribe is going to backfire "bigly."

Now all unemployed or displaced factory workers expect the Pumpkinfuhrer to order their jobs be reinstated ASAP. They won't be, of course. This is a "one of" bribe situation being staged to hide the appointment of the alligators to the Cabinet.

[madokie]

6. You know this, I know this

but his supporters will never ever know this. Anything that doesn't paint the cretin in a positive light just makes their eyes glass over and ears to stop hearing

That is our Problem as it stands today. IMO

[kacekwl]

8. Other than Bernie and Elizabeth Warren

I hear nothing from the opposition regarding this billionaire take over bullshit . If I wasn't reading DU and a few others I wouldn't even hear them What has to be done to get some voices heard ? Trump greatness all day every day on media the lemmings see.

[MaeScott]

9. Send up the Dem Signsl.....

...oh wait, they are keeping their powder dry. Never mind.

Burns me to be end the hay they should be making out of this. These Dems don't fight.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Republicans are major criminals, as we know, but this take real contempt for the American people.

Who knows how filthy they will get once they really get underway.

[nolabear]

10. The best deals...

We are screwn.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

11. More smoke and mirrors.

Yet, every idiot who bought the ticket thinks it's magic!