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In reply to the discussion: Cutting Medicare by $700 Million to fund failed Trade Adjustment Assistance and fuck us [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)48. Yes, but was it your job that moved?
I suppose if they came out and said,"We moved all of factory A in west world to South America." Then it might be enough. But the administrator specifically said that general comments, memos or press releases indicating the business was moving to a treaty nation was insufficient. From what I could understand, 1st you had to be located in certain parts of the US deemed to be hardest hit. Then you had to have a statement from the bussiness saying that your specific job was moved. As the administrator told us, the bussiness might decide to no longer maintain your function at the new location.
Anyway, we didn't qualify and the administrator was a snotty, nasty person. You would think it was her money she was using for retraining workers.
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Cutting Medicare by $700 Million to fund failed Trade Adjustment Assistance and fuck us [View all]
cali
Jun 2015
OP
I think the Medicare thing was just theater - so the Dems who want to vote yes ANYWAY can
djean111
Jun 2015
#2
Load of horse shit. LGBT voters are not idiots. We vote. We do hard core politics.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2015
#38
I believe the proposed Medicare cut is $700 MILLION (0.1% of Medicare costs), not $700 BILLION.
pampango
Jun 2015
#19
"We know this trade deal is so bad it's gonna cost $700M to retrain workers who lose their jobs, so
Scuba
Jun 2015
#20
Some companies have openly stated they were closing plants and moving to Mexico
Art_from_Ark
Jun 2015
#33
How does TAA help long term unemployed who were hoping to get another job as the painfully slow
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#30
But we aren't going to lose any jobs because of this agreement, according
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jun 2015
#34