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Originally Posted by bronco67
Really? Exactly? That's only one thing -- and it's only 1,000 jobs. Good gesture but it amounts to a fart in a hurricane.
Snipped from the article you posted.
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Political symbolism aside, saving 1,000 Carrier jobs doesn’t loom so large in an economy that’s created an average of 181,000 jobs a month this year, noted Jared Bernstein, a liberal economist who served as adviser in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.
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I want to see the full details of the agreement, like how much are the tax payers going to pay in tax incentives to keep those jobs!
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