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Le Gaucher

(1,547 posts)
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 07:57 PM Nov 2018

GM workers think Trump is not at fault.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/business/economy/gm-plant-jobs-trump.html

LORDSTOWN, Ohio — After an election campaign in which he had pledged a manufacturing renaissance, President Trump came to this once-thriving industrial region of northeastern Ohio last year and all but waved a mission-accomplished flag.

The jobs are “all coming back,” he announced. “Don’t move, don’t sell your house.”

That vow collided with the shifting dynamics of the auto industry on Monday when General Motors told workers it was idling Lordstown’s prized Chevrolet factory.

“Some people were crying,” said Joyce Olesky, a 23-year employee of the plant. “I looked over and saw people who looked like they had the flu, turning white.”

Many Lordstown residents recalled that Mr. Trump had promoted steel tariffs and his trade savvy as a way to create jobs. But while critics faulted the president for failing to deliver what he promised, a number of workers were quick to exonerate him.
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allgood33

(1,584 posts)
1. I guess they don't read or use their guts...
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 07:59 PM
Nov 2018

GM warned this summer that the trade war instigated by President Donald Trump could force job cuts in the United States. Trump was irate with GM's announcement this week, tweeting on Tuesday that he was "very disappointed" with the company and CEO Mary Barra for idling plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Sing along, friends
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 08:13 PM
Nov 2018

We're gonna whip inflation now
We'll all eat crow instead of cow
We'll even starve to death and how
So we can whip inflation now

H/T to Dirty Duck.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
8. Hang on -- don't sell out !!! Trump is coming back with jobs for everyone !!!
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 08:16 PM
Nov 2018

Get your "mission accomplished" flags, beer, and hotdogs ready. Big party when he arrives. (Wow, it's hard to shake free when you are gut-hooked.)

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
15. "I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles. Such are promises:
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 09:58 PM
Nov 2018

all lies and jest. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"


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