'Make America Great' billionaire slammed as he moves to offshore factory jobs to China

[lostincalifornia]

One of Donald Trump's earliest Wall Street backers is planning to move his Ohio manufacturing operation to China — and workers are calling on the president to save their jobs.

Workers are furious at hedge fund billionaire John Paulson — who has publicly praised Trump's tariffs as necessary to protect domestic manufacturing jobs — after he told union officials he intended to offshore most of the work at Conn Selmer by June, reported The Guardian.

“To go publicly on CNBC to support the Trump administration’s positive views on tariffs and all that stuff, and then you turn around and [say you] want to go send the work right over to China,” said Robert Hines, president of UAW Local 2359 and a worker at the plant. “It’s a slap in our face.”

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Hines, the union leader, said Paulson's decision to offshore 150 jobs in Ohio is deeply offensive after Paulson has publicly declared his support for domestic manufacturing, and he's hopeful Trump himself might persuade his ally to s

top the move.

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and here are a few of the comments to this report:

"and workers are calling on the president to save their jobs
Do these idiots remember how that worked out for Trane, Carrier Corp., Rexnord, Harley Davidson, Schneider Electric, Siemens, General Motors, and a host of other companies where Cheetolini showed up for the photo op and a few months later they moved anyway, after collecting tax payer dollars to stay?
Of course they don't."

"Hines, the union leader, said Paulson's decision to offshore 150 jobs in Ohio is deeply offensive after Paulson has publicly declared his support for domestic manufacturing, (and he's hopeful Trump himself might persuade his ally to stop the move.)... Good luck with that."

"Welp before I care...WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?"


https://www.rawstory.com/make-america-great/#comments_section_start

[patphil]

1. How much does Paulson contribute to the republican party in general, and Trump in particular?

I think Paulson is planning on things getting worse from an employment viewpoint. He probably has a lot of immigrants in his workforce, and realizes there won't be enough workers to do the jobs that are vacated when they come for his workers.
So, he may just be forward thinking, and this is just a test to see how it goes down with Trump.

We know that a combination of Trump calling for more manufacturing jobs to be brought back into the US doesn't make sense when he's throwing out hundreds of thousands of workers. There are only a few ways to deal with this:
We can have available jobs without workers.
We can see US jobs go away, import whatever we need and pay the price.
We can hold hundreds of thousands of the most desirable immigrants in work prisons.
We can push the nation, and even the whole world, into a deep recession, or even a depression.
We can vote these fuckers out, start fixing what they broke, and hope we can put a stop to this before it destroys the nation.