Posted on 12/11/2016 12:19:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump took his pre-inauguration manufacturing job bonanza into this former manufacturing hub on Friday and stood proudly by as the CEO of Dow Chemical announced a new, state-of-the-art innovation center in the state.
But the precise number of jobs that would be created wasn’t clear: the CEO seemed to boast that the project would create several hundred jobs, but afterwards the company issued a news release pegging the number at 200, with half being “repatriated” from elsewhere.
It’s at least the third announcement about creating or saving jobs that Trump has presided over since defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton. And in all three cases, it wasn’t clear precisely how much credit Trump deserves for the announcements — or how many jobs will be saved or created. Even taken at face value, the number of jobs for which the president-elect has taken credit represents a tiny drop in the bucket of American manufacturing job loss. But that hasn’t stopped the president-elect from using the announcements to create the impression that he is single-handedly turning around American manufacturing even before taking office....
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And people want more politicians. I say no , Get the CEO of Exxon, Betsy Devos the billionaire woman that wants to privatize government schools etc. nominated ASAP. I'm impressed beyond words by The Exxon guy after watching his video and also with Betsy.
They state, “drop in the bucket” it is a good start in the right direction.
The reality of Zer0’s underachievement is rearing its ugly head. He did nothing to work with Congress. It was all done with a cell phone and a pen. All that he accomplished with his executive orders will be wiped out with a stroke of Trump”s pen. His legacy is a big fat zero. We didn’t call him Zer0 for nothing.
The positive things Trump has already done feel so much better than the 10,000 + destructive things Obama has done to destroy our nation. What surprises me is how much the MSM says the left still supports him. I guess evil will always support evil though...
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