Even after 100+ days of Trump, companies are still shipping jobs overseas
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« on: May 03, 2017, 07:58:45 AM »

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/28/news/economy/foreign-job-losses-trump-100-days/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

So tell me, when exactly does the winning start? When are we going to Make America Great Again? When?
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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2017, 08:32:07 AM »

The vast majority of Trump voters were not people who had their jobs shipped overseas but just plain voters motivated by racism so they don't care

He won the rustbelt on the backs of people who had their jobs shipped overseas. Without those votes, he wouldn't be president.
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2017, 08:40:00 AM »

The vast majority of Trump voters were not people who had their jobs shipped overseas but just plain voters motivated by racism so they don't care

Perhaps you are right, but do you have any documentation that racism had the most salience for the "vast majority" of Trump voters in making their candidate selection?  My intuition is that protectionism was the most juicy bait for Trump. Voters whose standard of living is stagnant or tanking, with higher paying blue collar jobs getting scarcer and scarcer, grabbed on to the "it's due to jobs being shipped overseas due to bad trade deals" line as if it were a life preserver. They hope that's true, and things will get better once we get rid of the bad trade deals.

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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2017, 11:30:07 AM »

The Republican strategy:

(1) Enact job-killing economic policies that increase inequality
(2) Enact deregulation and blow up unstable bubbles to give the appearance their policies are working
(3) Hand things over to a Democrat to fix when the jig is up
(4) Blame minorities for the resulting discontent of the working class
(5) Get back into power by blaming minorities
(6) Go back top step 1
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« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2017, 12:53:13 PM »

The Republican strategy:

(1) Enact job-killing economic policies that increase inequality
(2) Enact deregulation and blow up unstable bubbles to give the appearance their policies are working
(3) Hand things over to a Democrat to fix when the jig is up
(4) Blame minorities for the resulting discontent of the working class
(5) Get back into power by blaming minorities
(6) Go back top step 1

The Democrat strategy:
(1)  Enact job-killing economic policies that increase inequality
(2) Enact excessive regulation to give the appearance their policies are working
(3) Hand things over to a Republican to fix when the jig is up
(4) Blame Republicans for the resulting discontent of the working class
(5) Get back into power by blaming Republicans
(6) Go back to step 1

Hmm...the similarities between the two parties is pretty astounding.

     And people wonder why our country is so politically dysfunctional. Don't worry about tomorrow so long as you can push the blame on someone else.
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