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How will this help "hollowed out" America? Is the promise that West Virginia will become the next Shenzhen?
by scarmig 9y ago
How will this help "hollowed out" America? Is the promise that West Virginia will become the next Shenzhen?
- 52-6F-62 9y agoNot explicitly related, but funny enough— it comes on the same day this news came out. It seems like they're already done with the guy, anyway: U.S. miners' union to endorse two more Democrats in coal country https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-coal-endorsements-exclus/exclusive-u-s-miners-union-to-endorse-two-more-democrats-in-coal-country-idUSKBN1GY1YM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-coal-endorse...
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- newfriend 9y agoHow is this funny? Don't unions typically endorse Democratic candidates? Union workers are not the same thing as union leadership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers#Recent_Elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers#Recent_Ele...
- product50 9y agoIt brings in jobs from manufacturing given the levees will make it more expensive to import from China. At least that is the rationale.
- robryan 9y agoOnly if companies perceive this as stable. It might take 10-20 years to pay off the investment of moving manufacturing to the US. Trump policies are very unstable themselves but there is a good chance these policies might be quickly reversed by the next administration.
- rbobby 9y agoThere's also a chance Trump himself might reverse course in the next few weeks. Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs went from "no exceptions" to a handful over the course of a month.
- product50 9y agoMost policies are long term. You can't win this game if your timeline is 2 yrs or you just give up assuming in the long term we are all doomed.
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