John Bolton

I couldn't care less.  I care more about those blue collar factory WORKERS that are now Employed.   

Let's Keep America Great !! 

Midnite - yea i knew all that. Personally, if they wouldn't have rushed and went thru the courts, they may have got him out during

             his second term. To close to election. Censorship would have made more sense. Still can when vote taken today but doubt it.

            See ya for number #3. Good luck in Nov

It's not my job to audit the federal government.   Go put the work in yourself to find out the names of these companies.   Then , if you you still have doubt, go pick up the phone and ask to speak the HR department.   God, you are lazy ! 

Hey joe...here are the FACTS that Rush doesn't care about.

One way to think about President Trump's electoral victory was as a referendum on the nation's changing economy, in which the manufacturing jobs of the 20th century were giving way to service-sector employment of the 21st. 

Trump won an electoral college victory by flipping votes in the industrial midwest, where those shifts have been most jarringly apparent. His inaugural address lamented that "factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind." His campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, was at least in part a nostalgic appeal to an old economic model, in which manufacturing employment and output was a form of national greatness. 

But although it is true that America's economy has, on the whole, performed admirably well under Trump, with unemployment numbers hovering near historic lows, one of the notable dark spots over the last year has been manufacturing jobs—particularly those in the upper Midwest. 

Last week, the Federal Reserve reported that U.S. manufacturing was in a recession for all of 2019. This wasn't slow growth; the sector actually became smaller. The slowdown was relatively mild, with factory production shrinking by about 1.3 percent. But it was the worst performance since 2015, the year that Trump started his presidential campaign. Under Trump, the manufacturing economy has returned to the Obama era. 

Manufacturers have a clear culprit in mind for the sector's poor performance. As The Washington Post notes in a report on the Federal Reserve data, the uncertainty and increased costs surrounding Trump's trade war, which was billed as a way of supporting American factory jobs, has instead wreaked havoc on an export-heavy sector that relies on the global flow of goods to operate. Trump's interventions were intended to prop up U.S. manufacturing. But they backfired, harming the people he claimed to help—who also happen to be some of the people who played a crucial part in his election. 

And while manufacturers did add jobs during the first two years of Trump's presidency, the largest share of those jobs weren't in the nation's old industrial heartland, but in the sunbelt and the West. In states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, manufacturing employment has fallen. 

As Reuters reported last year, there were signs of serious manufacturing sector weakness in five of the six states that flipped from twice supporting President Obama to backing President Trump in 2016. 

Nor are manufacturing jobs the only ones to be hit by trade costs and uncertainty. As a New York Times report notes, middle-wage job growth, which includes manufacturing as well as occupations like mining and construction, slowed considerably over 2019, dropping from 2.6 percent to 1.3 percent, owing to trade-war squabbling. "That slowdown is driving the deceleration of job growth across the American economy," the report notes. Farming, another industry that Trump campaigned on helping, was so harmed by the trade war that the Trump administration ended up spending some $28 billion—more than double the price tag of President Obama's auto bailout—to keep them afloat. 

You guys can just go back and watch the SOTU address for the data points that speak to ALL AMERICANS.   News flash you guys.  Manufacturing jobs make up 11% of the economy. 

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