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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by melling on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:42PM (#12934695)
Why are you telling me this?

I was explaining why Clinton lost the election. Someone needs to solve the Rust Belt problem. I have no idea if Trump has a plan but he did not ignore the people in those states so they voted for him.

You don't win votes by telling people their jobs aren't coming back.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by enraged_camel on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:28AM (#12937017)
>>You don't win votes by telling people their jobs aren't coming back.

I think you can, if you present them with alternatives that make sense. Coming up with such alternatives requires a lot of planning and creative thinking through, which Hillary thought not worth it because polls showed her ahead in those states...

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by threeseed on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:57PM (#12934846)
Because I would argue Hillary didn't lose the rust belt.

Trump won it. By lying to those people that he will bring their jobs back.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by chillacy on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:10PM (#12934946)
I think with enough regulation, he can bring their jobs back. It just comes at the cost of productivity, which means we end up paying extra for it.

Consider the Obama tire tariffs. Tire manufacturing is up in the US, we created some jobs, but overall we all collectively pay way more in tires.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by jessaustin on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:28PM (#12935434)
Yeah tires are really expensive now. It stands to reason, that they would pick a product that even poor people have to buy. Couldn't have tariffs on fancy phones and luxury cars!
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by chillacy on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:56PM (#12935606)
Yup. More details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/23/how-o...

We all collectively paid $1.1 billion dollars to give up to 1200 people a job in the tire industry.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by YuriNiyazov on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:44PM (#12935840)
Yup, and we should've been willing to pay a whole lot more, so that more people kept their rust-belt jobs, and weren't swayed by Trump's "jobs, jobs" appeal.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by melling on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:25PM (#12935042)
Wow, i feel better now. She didn't lose, Trump won. Do you belong to a generation where everyone is a winner?

The person who runs our country depends on those votes. It's really important that people are not forgotten. If Trump makes even a little progress with jobs, he'll be a two term president.

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