People don’t often realize how much 1000 good paying jobs impacts a community.
Let’s say the average family for an employee is a 4.4 / husband, wife, 2.2 children. Therefore, the impact of these thousand jobs is immediately 4,400. These families spend in their communities that help others, etc.
Then you have suppliers to the Carrier facility and that impacts a lot of other families. The impact of the loss of 1,000 jobs impacts tens of thousands in a community.
We heard during the campaign about the loss of over 70,000 manufacturing facilities in the USA. Since 1980, every single year, we’ve had fewer manufacturing jobs than we had the year before. It is past time we put a stop to that.
Thank you, Mr. Trump, for putting Americans first.
Good post.
It depends why the jobs are going away. If they’re being outsourced, trying to keep the jobs here makes sense. But if technology is evolving to the point where less human labor is needed in manufacturing, then we need to let that happen to allow for economic progress and efficiency.