Posted on 02/14/2016 5:09:29 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
During tonight's CBS Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump was the only candidate to address the news that Carrier will be sending hundreds of American jobs to Mexico.
The GOP frontrunner said that under a President Trump, Carrier would stay and "build in the United States because we are killing ourselves with trade pacts that are no good for us and no good for our workers."
Video footage emerged yesterday, which went viral, capturing the anger and heartache of 1,400 Indianapolis workers who were informed that they soon would be out of work, as their company will be sending their jobs to Mexico. The New York Post described the video as "stomach-turning."
The company representative tried to quiet the crowd, as workers of different races and ethnicities cried out in outrage and despair. "Let's quiet down," the company representative said in the video.
Trump brought up Carrier's move to Mexico, not just once but on two separate occasions during the debate.
Early in the debate, Trump said:
I'm going to bring jobs back from China. I'm going to bring jobs back from Mexico and from Japan, where they're all -- every country throughout the world -- now Vietnam, that's the new one. They are taking our jobs. They are taking our wealth... We're going to bring that money back. You take a look at what happened just this week, China bought the Chicago Stock Exchange, China, a Chinese company. Carrier is moving to Mexico, air conditioning company. Not only the ones I talk about all the time, Nabisco and Ford and -- they're all moving out.
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There are two different points here. One is the use of Federal government incentives/compulsion to maintain or increase employment opportunities in the United States. This is, in my opinion, a matter of prudence, “What measures will work?” as well as a matter of what the Federal government may legitimately, under the Constitution, do. Obviously, tariffs are a measure specified in the Constitution as a Federal power.
The other question is about an individual’s “caring” about other individuals, and what that means in terms of personal action.
Don’t want to belabor the point with you, and yes maybe my imagination is not the greatest but I do not trust Trump to follow thru on 10 percent of his claims!
And by the way I thank you for serving our country!
Okay. You are entitled to your opinion.
And thank you for your kind words.
Democrats care about illegals 'living in shadows'... The GOPe cares about big money donors... Jeb cares about Mexicans and other illegals - - and Trump? Trump cares about Americans.
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