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Old 11-26-2018, 10:55 PM   #1
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The Big Con is starting to show it’s true effects, it must be someone else’s fault.
Get ready for the spin
so when one company has layoffs, that means that the federal
government has failed? what if it’s the company’s fault?

when solyndra
went under, did you post about how obama failed?
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:59 PM   #2
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so when one company has layoffs, that means that the federal
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its called taking the money AKA tax cut buy back stock then thin legacy costs (workers) MAGA
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Old 11-26-2018, 11:29 PM   #3
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its called taking the money AKA tax cut buy back stock then thin legacy costs (workers) MAGA

Wait. I though the Previous CINC took the money and company and gave it to the workers? Ya know the means of production to the people??

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Old 11-27-2018, 07:05 AM   #4
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its called taking the money AKA tax cut buy back stock then thin legacy costs (workers) MAGA
please share the evidence that the tax cut had anything to do with this. maybe if not fornthevtax cut,
they would have had to lay-off more.

Newsflash- sometimes
companies fail, and it’s not always the fault of the sitting president.
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Old 11-27-2018, 07:33 AM   #5
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please share the evidence that the tax cut had anything to do with this. maybe if not fornthevtax cut,
they would have had to lay-off more.

Newsflash- sometimes
companies fail, and it’s not always the fault of the sitting president.
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Again any blame towards Trump is due to his own comments and actions why do you need evidence Trump doesn't use evidence ..

the same people who elected him dont use facts ... they see it the same way "

I smell a rat! GM planned this all the time. They got that big corporate tax break and then screwed us! POTUS "


Amid criticism from President-elect Donald Trump in January 2017, General Motors announced plans to invest an additional $1 billion in manufacturing in the United States and said it would add or keep 7,000 jobs in the US — a decision it admitted was “years in the making.” Trump thanked the company at the time.


Now they are slashing 15 percent of its salaried workforce, a total of some 14,700 jobs....

He cant bully them Now to change course they already got the money
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Old 11-26-2018, 11:24 PM   #6
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so when one company has layoffs, that means that the federal
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There’s the spin
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Old 11-27-2018, 07:08 AM   #7
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it’s only spin if it’s not actually true. Please provide some evidence, any evidence, that Trump caused this.

Trump has done stupid things, he has attacked Amazon, causing their shres to plummet. His tariff war has hurt people. These are facts, and he deserves criticism for these actions.

Tell us why he caused GM to cut production of cars that weren’t selling. I’m listening.
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Old 11-27-2018, 07:41 AM   #8
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it’s only spin if it’s not actually true. Please provide some evidence, any evidence, that Trump caused this.

Trump has done stupid things, he has attacked Amazon, causing their shres to plummet. His tariff war has hurt people. These are facts, and he deserves criticism for these actions.

Tell us why he caused GM to cut production of cars that weren’t selling. I’m listening.
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Much like Trump’s claims that all that is good is his doing, the jobs GM added in 2017 were his of course but any loss is someone else’s fault
The standard Trump pattern
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Old 11-27-2018, 11:25 AM   #9
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Much like Trump’s claims that all that is good is his doing, the jobs GM added in 2017 were his of course but any loss is someone else’s fault
The standard Trump pattern
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As usual, you didn’t answer my question. What is the evidence, that Trump caused GM to struggle?

Most fair minded people
give Trump credit, in a macro sense, for helping the economy. the tax cuts, the elimination of regulations, have helped. That doesn’t mean that every job created us because of him, though he will claim it is. Sure as hell, not every corporate failure is his fault.

You didn’t give him
any credit for the economy improving, but blame him for every bad thing. You can’t have it both ways.
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As usual, you didn’t answer my question. What is the evidence, that Trump caused GM to struggle?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/business/automakers-tariffs-job-cuts.html
Most fair minded people
give Trump credit, in a macro sense, for helping the economy. the tax cuts, the elimination of regulations, have helped. That doesn’t mean that every job created us because of him, though he will claim it is. Sure as hell, not every corporate failure is his fault.

You didn’t give him
any credit for the economy improving, but blame him for every bad thing. You can’t have it both ways.
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As i have said many times, Trump gives himself plenty of credit for anything good that happens, including much of which he had no hand in. I'll let him give himself grades all he wants, he said it would be more than A+
Months ago, GM told him the tariffs were going to hurt their business, he had no comment. Trump has no clue what he is doing, there will be worse to come. Nothing happens immediately in big business.
It's his turn in the barrel now and they purposely are hitting him where it hurts his base. He's not good for their business.

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Old 11-27-2018, 12:54 PM   #11
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As i have said many times, Trump gives himself plenty of credit for anything good that happens, including much of which he had no hand in. I'll let him give himself grades all he wants, he said it would be more than A+
Months ago, GM told him the tariffs were going to hurt their business, he had no comment. Trump has no clue what he is doing, there will be worse to come. Nothing happens immediately in big business.
It's his turn in the barrel now and they purposely are hitting him where it hurts his base. He's not good for their business.
Did you even read the article you posted? The article was written in June, about what "could" happen. How about what "did" happen?

GM is not going out of business. They are shutting down production of cars that people don't want. Tariffs did not shift consumer demand away from hybrids toward full batter-operated cars. Tariffs did not shift demand away from sedans to crossovers.

"Trump gives himself plenty of credit for anything good that happens, including much of which he had no hand in"

yes he does. He's an egomaniac. That doesn't mean that everything is his doing. Not all the good things, not all the bad things.

Pete, let's make this simple. If Trump's tariffs are responsible for people no longer wanting to buy the Chevy Impala, why didn't the tariffs curtail demand for the Silverado, which is GM's best-selling vehicle?

Please answer that question? Good luck!!
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Old 11-27-2018, 12:58 PM   #12
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Trump has no clue what he is doing, there will be worse to come. Nothing happens immediately in big business.
It's his turn in the barrel now and they purposely are hitting him where it hurts his base. He's not good for their business.
"Trump has no clue what he is doing"

Tell that to the blacks and Hispanics who are enjoying historically low unemployment. That happened after a few years of Trump, and after several years of a GOP-led congress. I know exactly how much you hate that fact. It's still a fact.

"He's not good for their business"

GDP has risen nicely. How come? Lemme guess, because of obama...
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Old 11-27-2018, 07:45 AM   #13
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obama didn't buy the chevy volt he promised to buy after he left office...probably because he couldn't get that big government rebate they were using to get people to buy them and so he couldn't afford one...
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