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Originally Posted by ResAlien
So anyways...
A Pro Trump superpac is fighting to stop the Wisconsin recount and has filed a federal lawsuit. Michigan's AG is also fighting a recount in his state. Trump only won Michigan by 10K votes I believe.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/1...recount-232121 |
But there were millions of illegal voters! A recount would find them!
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Originally Posted by ernie
Deal with reality instead of hoping reality will change.
A federal government can guide the general direction of an economy and make the environment favorable for full employment. They can not and SHOULD not be involved on that small local level.
Manufacturing has lost 250,000 jobs this year yet the economy has created a whole mess more overall. Those jobs aren't coming back. No matter how many deals someone wants to make those jobs will continue to move out of country.
That says in order to participate you need to shift your expectations. You need to deal in reality. There will always be some manufacturing in the US but the economy is shifting and people need to shift with that.
It's a horrible truth, I understand, but it's the truth.
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You can't stop progress. Factories that needed thousands of workers are now automated so as to only need a fraction of those employees to run properly.
Where there were coal mines all through the mountains of WV, you now see those closing because the risks and costs of mining coal for energy are vastly higher than the costs associated with the shale gas industry, and solar/wind/renewables are gaining ground. We aren't going back to coal, and as hard as that is to accept, at some point these people have to realize that and move on.
I know these people. These people are my customers, and they're angry, and I get it. But you can't stop progress. At some point you need to adapt or you're going to get left farther and farther behind.
My family history is full of ridiculously poor railroad workers from tiny mountain towns. When the railroad jobs dried up, they moved, they went to school, they found other ways to support themselves. I don't have too much sympathy for people who see the writing on the wall for decades and refuse to change.
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Originally Posted by photon
Looks like Trump's not going to block the AT&T / Time Warner deal after all.
AT&T is reportedly feeling confident about its ability to buy Time Warner after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team—even though Trump himself vowed to block the merger during his campaign.
"Donald Trump’s transition team has reassured AT&T that its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner will be scrutinized without prejudice," the Financial Times reported yesterday. "After talking with the president-elect’s team, AT&T executives are confident that their deal has a good chance of passing regulatory scrutiny, people informed about the conversation said."
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As he prepares to shift the Federal Communications Commission from Democratic to Republican control, Trump has also appointed advisors who want to reduce regulatory burdens on telecom companies. That's likely good news for telecom companies that want to increase consolidation and face fewer consumer protection regulations.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...to-trump-team/ |
Just what we need, even less telecomm competition in the US market.
