“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. John 6:35 KJV
The Establishmedia was outraged Trump would save eleven hundred jobs at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis. This is just not how things are done in the District of Corruption. They had the freshly texted talking points stating this was cronyism for giving them a seven million dollar tax break. Some even went as far as calling it corporate welfare and favoritism when in reality it was simply proving lowering taxes works. It is used around the country to bring businesses to localities. In reality it tax breaks costs the gummit zero to keep a business like Carrier and will actually make more taxes from the business and employees.
Trump knows business and how to make it work for a community with as little interference as possible. This is an example of what can be done on a national scale which is being done in Indiana. If you bring down the taxes there than you will not only have fewer businesses leave for other lower taxed countries like Mejico, but you will have businesses begin to move here. This is a great visual for all Americans of what can be done by a President who is willing to do what needs to be done to keep jobs in America.
This really irritates the Marxists especially since Trump said he would not let companies like Carrier leave the Country and would do everything he could to keep them here. The Marxist way is to the District of Corruption send grant money to a PC business like Solyndra which nobody wants their product and later have Solyndra make a large donation to the DNC. For a politician from Moscow on the Potomac they want to centralize everything out of there rather than what Trump just did and simply let them keep more of their profits and not cost anybody anything in real dollars.
What is truly amazing is how he made this deal happen. He explained he used his tried and true method of calling the head of the company. He was going to call the head of Carrier at first, but knew if you were going to get something done he had to call the head of United Technologies which owns Carrier who is Greg Hayes. He calls Greg on Thanksgiving Day since he had nothing better to do and began negotiations on what it would take to keep that plant open. It must have been a positive meeting since he tweeted out that he met with him and it would be announcing something soon. What a great Thanksgiving it must have been for the families of that plant.
How great is it to have someone who has a business mind rather than a political shill. There is no way a politician would think he could make a deal with the CEO let alone his manager allow a call to be made for political fears. Rather, Trump calls Pence to tell him what he wants to do and then conference calls the CEO and begins negotiations. He knows why this company is leaving and what Mexico has to offer which Indiana cannot match.
Mexico has wages of twenty dollars a day with no benefits while Carrier is paying around $40 per hour with benefits which is a tough hurdle to leap. They also have very few confiscatory taxes to pay state and federally in addition to low construction costs down there. Donald likely assured him that they would be lowering Federal taxes from forty to fifteen percent and would be eliminating many of the ridiculous regulations which have nothing to do with clean air or water but costs the company time and money.
He also told him he was throwing out all of the Global Warming restrictions since he has installed one of the great Warming skeptics as the head of the EPA transition team Mike McKenna. He is going to bring this debate to the nation and show what a scam it is. This will free companies like Carrier from being forced to make costly plant additions lowering CO2 emissions. It will also allow coal fired plants to be restarted and lower the cost of energy for heating, cooling and manufacturing. He likely gave his view of an energy abundant America and what that means to Carrier and United Enterprises and how he really wanted them to be a part of this rebuilding of our once great Country.
There are three basic components to any manufactured product labor, energy and taxes while labor is a byproduct of energy costs. To produce anything you need to consider these two expenses and how much it takes to make your product. Labor is a component of supply and demand unless you have an artificial factor such as union labor which has been corrupted by politics. Unions tend to force labor costs higher than the marketplace and are fading into the background as companies move to Right to Work states.
Energy is a complete supply and demand commodity with the exception of regulations. If you take out the regulations which Trump is going to do it becomes a real supply and demand which will be lowered dramatically.
There is a level it will be floored at since there is only so low it can go without being profitable, but those levels will be challenged as new technologies come on board and the pricing and labor spiral themselves downward as everything begins to cost less to make.
President Elect Trump painted his long term picture to the CEO who understood these changes will add to his bottom line. He explained how the tax advantages he would be seeing both as the incentives being discussed and the tax plan Trump is planning. These arguments won over Greg Hayes and he agreed to keep half of his plant open with expectations to expand it in the future making it a win, win. Trump may not have been able to keep all of the plant open, but half a loaf is better than none and what a powerful signal to send to workers and manufacturers across America.
What we saw was the difference between Marxism and a Capitalist. The Marxist would have let the plant shutter and watched the jobs go knowing the workers would soon be under their control. They would be have forced social justice through strangling taxes and regulations and the centralized planning. The unjust Capitalist would be forced to close his doors in return for some Politically Correct company to replace them with gummit subsidies to pay for those makework jobs often greater than the job is worth. Hillary was planning to subsidize solar panels even though they are made cheaper in China which owns that tiny market. She certainly was not going to lower taxes and regulations as a solution.
The Capitalist rolled up his sleeves and solved the problem. He had an idea what the issues were to keep their company competitive in the air conditioner market and verified them. He told the CEO what his vision of the economic landscape would be after a couple years of his administration and how that would improve their bottom line. In the end they made a deal and Carrier was able to keep their employees working at this plant.
This negotiation was not only for this one plant it was for every large and small plant across the country as they realize this is a new day. There is a new business friendly climate change coming and those eleven hundred families are going to be eleven million celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas with jobs in their futures.
Pray America woke
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Oh, and not a policy I agree with, but Trump tweeted out the following 7 tweets about an hour ago:
The U.S. is going to substantialy reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, but any business that leaves our country for another country,
fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product back into the U.S. ......
without retribution or consequence, is WRONG! There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35% for these companies ......
wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border. This tax will make leaving financially difficult, but.....
but these companies are able to move between all 50 states and negotiate a tax free deal! Our country cannot keep losing these jobs, & won’t
these companies are able to move between all 50 states, with no tax or tariff being charged. Please be forewarned prior to making a very ...
expensive mistake! THE UNITED STATES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Ugh—how do his team come up with some of these choices? Now supposedly they are considering the CEO of Exxon as Secretary of State? That sounds like a joke!
“...a recent add to the mix, Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson...”
Little did Donald Trump know he would be savaged so much for saving these jobs. Or that it would become sooooo controversial pitting the likes of Sarah Palin against Trump and forcing us to choose sides.
Easy to choose however:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-03/sarah-palin-slams-trump-carrier-deal-crony-capitalism-corporate-welfare
For Sarah to claim that Trump engaged in "crony capitalism" just because he tried to level the playing field a little for Carrier is a bridge too far for me.
Everyone here knows how much I love Sarah Palin and would support her on almost anything but can't do it on this one.
She's assuming that Trump would not do the same for any other a/c company trying to stay here instead of moving overseas. How does she know that he wouldn't to the same for Frigidaire,Lenox,GE or any other a/c company looking to stay here?
Answer is she doesn't and should not have taken the stance she did.
Meanwhile the true devils of the left attack Trump by zeros mouthpiece claiming the Donald has to do it 803 more times to stay up with zeros accomplishments when it comes to saving jobs.What a lie!
Truth is all this regime in power now, The Chicago Thugocracy has accomplished is to create a job market where 100 million Americans have given up looking for work. Amazing accomplishment in only eight years.
What BS claims they make.
“If you take out the regulations which Trump is going to do it becomes a real supply and demand which will be lowered dramatically.”
What will be lowered?
The economic nationalists want our economic policies to benefit our people and workers. They want to keep our jobs in America thru both carrots and sticks. We can improve the conditions in the US to make it more welcoming for investment from abroad as well as keeping US businesses here for economic reasons. The stick of tariffs and duties can be used as well. The deterioration of the American middle class and reduction of our national manufacturing and tax base are national security issues.
The US is the world's biggest consumer market. We have tremendous leverage over the rest of the world, which wants to tap that market. Trump wants to use that leverage to make America great again. A growing economy generates the revenue needed to enact his agenda.