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Don't waste your time, it's PR bullshit: "“It’s a very powerful headline, and the timing certainly makes Trump look good,” The staffing up isn’t particularly
by anon987 10y ago
Don't waste your time, it's PR bullshit:
"“It’s a very powerful headline, and the timing certainly makes Trump look good,”
The staffing up isn’t particularly surprising for a company moving into multiple categories from groceries, hardware and video to fashion and cloud services. But the move could appease Trump, who tangled with Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos during the election campaign.
- knowaveragejoe 10y agoWhat a shameful and frankly frightening state of affairs we're in when this is the case. Why does the party of small government get a pass on this? Any self-described republican with even the vaguest interest in free markets should see a myriad of problems with the incoming administration. I hope they can actually grow some balls, stick to their guns and shut this travesty down before it really gets going.
- TheGirondin 10y agoWhat does this have to do small government?
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoYes, but first they would have to let go of the utterly divorced from reality bullshit that has become their whole political dogma. Good luck with that.
- matthewaveryusa 10y agoLook, regardless of your political inclinations you can't blankly hate everything Trump does. I get it, it's cognitive dissonance, but give credit where it's do. One company committing to 100k U.S jobs is huge. Looking at the numbers, that alone will contribute to 2.5-5% of job growth in the US (assuming job growth is btween 100-200k/month.) Is it a political move? How couldn't it be? Is it somthing to lambaste about? No, it's basic job creation in the US, something we really need to sustain the America us cosmopolitans have forgotten about.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI agree to be logically consistent you'd also have to make the same argument about Obama's unemployment numbers. Most of the growth lately has been in relatively low paying jobs.
- srtjstjsj 10y agoCredit for what, to whom? First, it's a pledge not a commitment, and second it's a statement about Amazon's continuation of 20 years of steady growth. This isn't "insourcing" or "onshoring" ? Trump did this? How? When you consider the wage of Amazon warehouse workers, it's a lot less than 2-5% of wage growth, which is what matters.
- basch 10y agojob creation isnt basic, especially disruptive change and new economies of scale. these jobs will displace slash replace other jobs. calling the jobs created growth without looking at what the new industry destroys is like going to the casino and bragging about how much you won, while withholding how much you "invested."
- xenadu02 10y agoYou're half-right. Not everything Trump does will be horrible and bad. We should judge him by his actual actions. I'm 95% confident he is going to be a disaster (and so will this Republican congress) but maybe this country needs to experience some pain to understand that both sides aren't equal. Nevertheless I can't lay blame until action is actually taken and the results are known.
- madenine 10y agoIts safe to assume that anything that happened since the election will be claimed by Trump. Regardless of whether he or his administration have the slightest thing to do with it. All jobs created in the next 4 years will be because of Trump, and all jobs lost will be because of Clinton/Bush/Obama.
- choko 10y agoIt's safe to assume because it's SOP for politicians. You aren't saying anything that hasn't been true of any incoming president in my lifetime. Hell, it's often true in the private sector during a management change.
- bryanlarsen 10y ago10 million net jobs were created during the Obama administration. How many of those did he tweet about?
- spoiledtechie 10y agoMore than 80% of those were low skills service jobs. The jobs Trump is creating and the factories he saved are high skilled high paying jobs.
- aaronbrethorst 10y agoAre you referring to Carrier, where some of the 1,100 jobs supposedly saved were never moving to Mexico? They're going to invest some of the money they're getting from the government into automation to further replace human workers. Or Ford, which was never moving the jobs in question out of the country. Or something else?
- MisterBastahrd 10y agoPresidents don't create jobs or lose them. The demands of the economy do that. Presidents can influence the economy, but they also have Congress and the Fed to deal with.
- notyourwork 10y agoYou missed one quote at the very end. Without it, the above reads like a quote with your reply to it. However, the last sentence was a quote from the article too.
- Fricken 10y agoIt's a good day to be a billionaire. Trump is totally open to providing incentives and handouts to anyone who makes him look good. For better or worse, the doors to corporatism are open. How far we go down that path remains to be seen.