Saturday, December 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders Rips Trump for Smoke-and-Mirrors Carrier Deal: 'Workers Should Be Very Nervous'

On Wednesday, Donald Trump—taking a break from fabricating lies about illegal voting, whining about Broadway plays, and rare media truth-telling—boasted he had saved 1,000 jobs at air-conditioning company Carrier from being outsourced to Mexico.

Unlike earlier this month, when Trump outright lied about having a part in Ford’s decision not to move a plant from Kentucky to Mexico, the Carrier deal seems to actually be connected to moves made by Trump and his Vice President-elect Mike Pence, but they are not at all what Trump would have you believe about them. Those moves were classic examples of corporate wheeling and dealing that slide huge tax cuts and other bonuses to big business in exchange for small favors....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-rips-trump-smoke-and-mirrors-carrier-deal-workers-should-be-very


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