Last edited by volsrock; 12-05-2019 at 05:12 PM.
MAGA MAN (12-05-2019)
This is trump.
"There was a point last year [2018] at which Harley-Davidson announced plans to move some of its production overseas as a result of Donald Trump’s trade policies. The president. outraged, responded that customers were so angry with the developments that they’d pushed down Harley-Davidson’s sales numbers in 2017. That, of course, didn’t make any sense. Consumers upset by developments in 2018 can’t affect sales in 2017. Trump was so eager to make a strange political point that he briefly seemed to forget how time works.
Yesterday, it happened again, when Trump signed the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, which directs the Treasury to issue a commemorative coin to honor the 100th anniversary of American women getting the right to vote. After signing the measure – which passed both the House and Senate unanimously – the president decided to comment on what he considered important: his own awesomeness.
“I am curious why wasn’t it done a long time ago and also, well, I guess the answer to that is because now I am president and we get things done.
“We get a lot of things done that nobody else got done.”
Well, if Trump is “curious” why other presidents didn’t sign the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, I can help. In this country, the women’s suffrage movement led to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1919, and its ratification in 1920.
No one tried to honor the centennial of this because – and this is important – centennials mark the hundredth anniversary of things. In order to recognize the centennial of something that happened in 1920, we had to wait until around 2020, because that’s how time works."
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...how-time-works
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Sailor (12-05-2019)
This has been debunked years ago. MSNBC has become nothing other than a left wing yapping poodle.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ha...ffs-2018-06-26
"The war of words between President Trump and Harley-Davidson over its decision to shift some production to Europe conceals a simple truth: The famed American company has been expanding overseas for years.
Harley-Davison US:HOG made its first foray outside the U.S. near the end of the Clinton administration in 1999 when it opened a plant in Brazil. The company later acquired a parts maker in Australia during the Bush years. It opened a plant in India in 2011 when Barack Obama was president. And shortly after Trump took office in 2017, Harley-Davidson said it would build a plant in Thailand.
Europe is the next frontier."
This is about trump's gaffe, not HD's business decision.
"In 2017 President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan held up Harley-Davidson as an American company that would flourish under the Republican Party’s policies on trade and taxes.
This isn’t what’s happened so far in 2018.
In January Harley announced plans to close its Kansas City plant. Days later it said it would spend nearly $700 million on stock buybacks that would benefit shareholders. And this week the company announced that because of European tariffs, a consequence of Trump’s trade war, it will shift overseas some production — and presumably jobs. The company is already opening up a new plant in Thailand.
Harley-Davidson is an American symbol. Trump and the GOP have trotted it out as a prime example of business success and held it up as a winner from their policy proposals. Now Harley has become a lesson in how the private sector often doesn’t respond in the ways politicians want.
Instead of creating jobs in the United States, Harley’s laying off workers, and it’s expanding operations abroad. And the money it gained from tax cuts? A lot of this is going to stock buybacks.
Trump raged on Twitter on Monday after Harley’s European production announcement.
Harley-Davidson was supposed to be a poster child for the benefits of Trump’s trade tactics and tax cuts. But instead it’s become an example of policy gone wrong — an early loser in an ongoing trade war."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...idson-thailand
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