Here, from an article at news-grabien.com, are Barack Obama’s thoughts, last June, regarding the prospects for Carrier jobs, among others, being saved from moving out of the country:
In June, President Obama participated in a PBS townhall and was asked about Trump’s promise to keep Carrier’s Indiana plant in the U.S. The townhall participant — Eric Cottonham, a member of the Steelworkers Union employed by Carrier — asked Obama if anything could be done to stem the tide of jobs flowing out of the country, as Trump had recently promised to do.
“Those jobs of the past are just not going to come back,” Obama told Cottonham.
Instead, Obama advised workers losing their jobs to learn how to adapt their skills to “some of these new technologies,” in particular, the “clean energy sector.”
“Let’s focus on those,” he suggested.
Obama also singled out Trump for derision, saying:
“When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I’m not going to advertise for, that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s — there’s no answer to it. He just says, “Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.” Well, how — what — how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually, the answer is he doesn’t have an answer.”
Thank you, Mr. President. Quite an analysis.
Do you look forward to your retirement, when you are no longer President? Me too.
