As U.S. jobs flee the country, one of Trumps biggest campaign promises is already going down in fla

[Judi Lynn]

SATURDAY, APR 8, 2017 04:34 PM CDT
As U.S. jobs flee the country, one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises is already going down in flames

Despite the president's ludicrous boasts, American companies have not slowed in exporting jobs.
KALI HOLLOWAY, ALTERNET

Again and again on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made promises he couldn’t keep, playing on the ignorance of his base and revealing his own glaring misunderstanding of policy. The GOP candidate repeatedly vowed to strongarm companies into keeping jobs at home instead of sending them to Mexico, renegotiate NAFTA and impose stiff import taxes on foreign goods. It was a message that appealed widely to Trump supporters, blending the illusion of economic hope with the rubric of “America First” nationalism.

Problem is, nothing about Trump’s vision has anything to do with reality, and U.S. jobs continue to be sent across the border. As Bloomberg reports:

Illinois Tool Works Inc. will close an auto-parts plant in Mazon, Illinois, this month and head to Ciudad Juarez. Triumph Group Inc. is reducing the Spokane, Washington, workforce that makes fiber-composite parts for Boeing Co. aircraft and moving production to Zacatecas and Baja California. TE Connectivity Ltd. is shuttering a pressure-sensor plant in Pennsauken, New Jersey, in favor of a facility in Hermosillo.

Those companies aren’t alone. Indianapolis-based firm Rexnord is moving 300 jobs to Monterrey, Mexico, despite a December tweet by Trump meant to shame the company into staying. That company is located just up the road from Carrier, the air conditioning manufacturer Trump falsely claimed to have bribed into keeping 1,100 jobs in its home state. Like nearly every victory claimed by the president, it too was a lie. As CNN Money notes, only 800 factory jobs were saved while 500 are still being shifted south.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/04/08/as-u-s-jobs-flee-the-country-one-of-trumps-biggest-campaign-promises-is-already-going-down-in-flames_partner/

[napi21]

1. What can we do to get THIS info on TV? The media seems too eager to air his bragging about

saving jobs, even though he lies about them, but your post is the first time I've heard about any recent exports.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. When the Auto companies due their annual

turn around,the next model run will need less manpower. Robotics will replace hundreds of workers with each turn around cycle.

Sad to say,Trump supporters really are not getting it. And we as a Nation have not put in place polices to address the real world changes.

[defacto7]

3. For perspective

these are long term job losses. Building new factories means the long haul. They ain't comin' back. They're not going to say, "oops, we decided for the blessing of American workers that we'll now build another plant in the US and just trash the one we just built in Juarez. It's going to be gone. Market growth is too lean to hope for long term expantion. They're moving not expanding.