Here are some interesting comments responding to Trump's interview:
See China isn't taking our jobs, American businesses are sending them there. When is the US going to stop catering to big corporations. It shouldn't be let's give businesses incentives to create jobs here. It should be, "you're an American company and you ship jobs overseas we are going to tax the hell out of you. And yeah right now Trump is talking about how China is investing in infrastructure and we aren't doing it. Hello the President has a jobs bill proposing that exact same thing.
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Where was The Donald's Big Mouth when we were spending gazillions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; between 3.2 and 4 TRILLION dollars to date and, oh yes, blood! Last year? $720 Million a day! That's where a lot of the money went. And the Bush Cheney team kept the accounting OFF THE BOOKS!
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Trump sounds better this time around. I hope he's sincere in spite of the non-sense Obama birth certificate. How's his real estate business doing?
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Donald Trump is in absolutely no position to give any advice on the economy. His business ventures have gone into bankruptcy numerous times, and he shows absolutely no remorse about what this has meant to his creditors or to the MANY employees of his failed projects that are now unemployed. Has anyone done a study about how many jobs his business practices have eliminated, versus how man jobs he claims he has "created"? Does anybody thinks he cares how many jobs disappear when he chooses to file chapter 11? Mr. Trump is a really good example of exactly why this country is facing such economic difficulty, especially among the poor and middle class. His net wealth has hardly been dented, but his self-serving greed has cost others billions. Let's stop making heros out of the people who don't give a rat's behind about anyone else's "economy" but their own. Mr Trump doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he can engage in blatant self-promotion while raking in tons of cash. The word is hypocrite at best; crook at worst.Economist? Example of wise and fair business practices? Please.
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WOW! Donald finally opens his eyes and sees 3rd world USA by looking at airports. He should take a drive through our inner cities. The USA may not have a single city in the world's top 20. Maybe Donald, you should compare other aspects of America to foreign nations, like healthcare costs, campaign financing (bribery), tax rates, nationwide standards of living, vacation benefits, job protection, immigration policies, military costs, anti trust law enforcement. You will find we are very far behind and to pretend that we are still the world leader is joke on us.
We are not a respected country because our leaders are all greedy pigs who only see this country the same as the Chinese - a country to be pillaged. There is not a single politician or business leader who cares about this country. They would see it burned to the ground for fistfull of dollars.
Crumbling bridges are not the problem Donald, they are a symptom.
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Outsourcing is such a great topic. Key point is we are pushing jobs to lower wage countries to help a US companies bottom line. Nothing to do with productivity. It is sad times when an executives wage goes up (1 person) when many employees lose there jobs to overseas. This has always been bad press in the US .. so US companies now outsource to US IBM (for example) and all seems well. US IBM will use 90% India IBM for this contract. Win-Win except for the US employee who is now out of work.
Give Donald credit for not sugar coating the downfall of the US.
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Vendor finance from China is here to stay - they loan us (the US) money to buy their crap. Our economy has evolved to accomodate this system and change would be harsh to say the least and most people will take the devil they know.
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Lamenting the state of America's roads, bridges and airports vs. those in the world's emerging economies, Trump breaks with Republican orthodoxy and endorses big infrastructure spending. "I'm talking common sense," he says. "Our country has to rebuild itself."
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Two of the biggest and most successful Companies have their products made in China - Apple and Walmart. If we closed that spicket today, even if we wanted to - we could not get manufacturing going in America to provide the supply needed. The few manufacturers that we have left in the USA are having a harder time finding skilled tradesman. Nobody is going into the apprenticeship jobs anymore, because there are no opportunities. And lastly, we are the ones that created the demand for low cost products. To expect people to pay more is like raising taxes - nobody will want to do it.
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