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Flashback: Obama Mocks Trump for Promising to Keep Carrier Plant in U.S.
Grabien News ^ | 1 Dec 16 | Staf Writer

Posted on 12/01/2016 7:27:36 PM PST by SkyPilot

n June, President Obama participated in a PBS townhall and was asked about Trump's promise to keep Carrier's Indiana plant in the U.S. The townhall participant -- Eric Cottonham, a member of the Steelworkers Union employed by Carrier -- asked Obama if anything could be done to stem the tide of jobs flowing out of the country, as Trump had recently promised to do.

"I see here you’re doing a lot of things, but in Indianapolis, there’s nothing there for us," he asked. "I mean, what’s next? I mean, what can we look forward to in the future as far as jobs, employment, whatever? Because all of our jobs has left or in the process of leaving, sir.”

"Those jobs of the past are just not going to come back," Obama told Cottonham.

Instead, Obama advised workers losing their jobs to learn how to adapt their skills to "some of these new technologies," in particular, the "clean energy sector."

"Let's focus on those," he suggested. "The days when you just being able to — you just being willing to work hard and you can now walk into a plant and suddenly there’s going to be a job for you for 30 years or 40 years, that’s just not going to be there for our kids because more and more, that stuff’s going to be automated."

Obama also singled out Trump for derision, saying:

When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I’m not going to advertise for, that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s — there’s no answer to it. He just says, “Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.” Well, how — what —

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KEYWORDS: economy; obama; trump; workers
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To: TigersEye
https://www.barackobamafoundation.org/">https://www.barackobamafoundation.org/

"Eight Years Is Only The Beginning!"


21 posted on 12/01/2016 8:05:39 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

They sure as hell did and it will not be forgotten.They are scum.


22 posted on 12/01/2016 8:13:15 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SkyPilot

obama has been mocking America since he arrived from Indonesia


23 posted on 12/01/2016 8:26:57 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: SkyPilot

Nevertrumpers are with Obama on this


24 posted on 12/01/2016 8:33:26 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: SkyPilot
End of the article:Pardon me White House, ya got a list?
25 posted on 12/01/2016 8:33:54 PM PST by upchuck (Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
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To: TigerClaws

“...Did Barry ever have a real job?...”
Probably not, the lying loser that he is.
He is quickly fading away to being nothing more than a nasty little fudge stain on Lady Liberty’s under-panties.
Now, that my FR friends, it s a legacy....LOL


26 posted on 12/01/2016 8:33:59 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: gaijin

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-told-president-obama-regulations-and-teachers-unions-were-killing-america-2011-10

Steve was wrong only because the GOP picked a real dud in 2012.


27 posted on 12/01/2016 8:38:49 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I’ll be blessed to never hear his voice again.

How I wish that was the case but Jughead has already said he wasn't going to shut up after he finally leaves.

28 posted on 12/01/2016 9:16:07 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: SkyPilot

Happy...happy...happy


29 posted on 12/01/2016 9:17:45 PM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: SkyPilot
It was a nice social experiment, and it maybe made a lot of white liberals feel less guilty about all their "privilege," but there's a reason why we never had a black president before, and an even better reason why we may never have another.

Barrack Obunghole.

They just bring too much thoughtless emotional baggage, and the enormity of the job never sinks into their brains. A guy like Trump will realize the historic import of the office and be changed for the better by it. A snot-nosed punk like Obama gets up, looks in the mirror, remembers how much he hates Whitey, and spends the rest of his day trying to screw him over.

The socially and emotionally immature average negro (is there really any other kind?) will always take any situation or interaction and view it through the dark lense of racism... they are taught by hyper-emotional/hormonal women to view and react to the world this way... and then respond with emotion rather than logic or thoughtful consideration.

Blacks are not inherently well-suited to being president. We know this now.

NEVER AGAIN!!!

30 posted on 12/01/2016 10:46:43 PM PST by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: SkyPilot

I get sick of this type of statement when it comes to someone losing their job :”Instead, Obama advised workers losing their jobs to learn how to adapt their skills to “some of these new technologies,” in particular, the “clean energy sector.”

It is so heartless. Why do they expect someone to do? Take out 100 k in student loans and take a couple of years off to learn these new “skills.”


31 posted on 12/02/2016 2:35:24 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: TigerClaws

Do you think America can now put behind us the experiment of trying to elect a person to run the country that’s never done a damn thing in his life and won because he’s “cool” or because of the color of someone’s skin or sex? Do you think America maybe has learned a lesson? I am so afraid that Trump may be only a reset of our values for a while, at least while us baby boomers are around. The milinealls scare me as they start to take over. This socialist movement scares me. It has become accepted in today’s culture. Do any another of you feel that way? How do we stop what has happened in the future to what had happened these last 8 years. Pray a lot I guess.


32 posted on 12/02/2016 4:16:30 AM PST by lilypad
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To: SkyPilot

can’t obozzo see nobody cares about his bs...only the idiots,dreggs of society, pervs, illegals like the Bast%$#...we love watching your agenda go to Hell Obamma, you su%$..


33 posted on 12/02/2016 7:12:35 AM PST by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: TigerClaws

yea he was suckin up to pervs a long time back..his main thing..captain liar perv and his muslim circus..

so yes his job is supporting Satan..


34 posted on 12/02/2016 7:15:32 AM PST by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

I think they have tricks up their sleeves coming..pray God kills their plans and exposes the true nature of these peoples and buries them with all that have opposed Israel..


35 posted on 12/02/2016 7:18:07 AM PST by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: SkyPilot

suddenly there’s going to be a job for you for 30 years or 40 years, that’s just not going to be there for our kids because more and more, that stuff’s going to be automated.”

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Not if we here in America design and build and repair those robotics.


36 posted on 12/04/2016 10:31:30 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: SkyPilot

Bttt.

5.56mm


37 posted on 12/04/2016 10:35:09 AM PST by M Kehoe
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