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A pretty wide net:

Special counsel wants documents from Trump, numerous campaign associates

 

All the Trump children are not on the list either. That may be an entirely separate proceeding.

 

Yep, investigation seems to be winding down...

 

So I'm guessing the Second Amendment just declared war on the First.

 

Man, Danica Patrick has really gone nuts.

In all seriousness, Dana Loesch appears to be a really awful person.

 

17 United Airlines Employee Replies to United's New 'Bonus Lottery'

 

I wouldn't mind it so much if senior execs also had to play plinko to see what their bonus is. It's embarassing. I worked at a newspaper that instead of Christmas bonuses had a prize raffle, some people won gift certificates, others won nothing. Wouldn't it be better to just roll all the bonus money into a college scholarship fund for employees and their kids?

 

My hunch is that it’s Trump’s way of striking a harder, better trade deals with other countries.

Of all the things Trump’s done, this is one that’s generally unforgivable to Trump’s richest Republican friends, who have made a fortune on offshoring jobs or investing in companies that do so.

You’d think liberals would consider how much that rankles Republicans and see there’s something to it. But most of them won’t, because they don’t know (nor care) the first thing about the slow, constant decline of the manufacturing base in America.

 

Many liberals know and care about manufacturing decline.

Is Manufacturing’s Future All Used Up?

Upper Mismanagement

THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING AND THE AMERICAN WORKER.

The Plight of American Manufacturing

Hiring workers for manufacturing jobs isn't all that hard

Why We Should Care About Manufacturing

Bringing Back Manufacturing

 

Poor guy.

 

1) Your claim that liberals don't care or know about the decline of the manufacturing base is just false, see, e.g., @garrow 's post.

B) Technology in factories has drastically increased productivity--and therefore drastically decreased the number of employees who are needed to produce the same amount of goods. Advances in transportation have, in many cases, eliminated the need to produce goods locally. Pretty sure these factors have a lot more to do with the decline in the manufacturing base than policy initiatives on either side. But please let us know what you would have done instead and what you'd do now.

III) You do realize that there are manufacturing jobs in fields other than steel and aluminum? And that increasing prices for those materials will hurt workers downstream?

Four) For someone who claims to be so saintly and moral, you seem to care a lot more about Americans than people who happen to be born overseas.