About Trump promising to bring jobs back?

It is a very tough assignment for Trump or anyone to bring back to the US the type of quality entry level job that you are seeking. Trump's real life experience is with outsourcing such jobs overseas and hiring firms that imported workers to take the place of Americans at domestic work sites. The only obvious jobs he created in the US for Americans are those he created for family members, which were high level management positions. Trump needs to explain what his promises will look like. So far all we get out of him are those worthless promises.

SInce Trump's own businesses benefited from outsourcing and bringing in immigrants to work for low wages, it will be a real leap of faith to trust that he will suddenly work for your benefit over the benefit of his own pocketbook now. There is a better question to ask. Should you and America trust this man to turn himself around and restart in a new direction that will hurt him once we give him the power of the US presidency?

One thing Trump claims he will do: use import tariffs. His campaign pledges to impose 45 percent tariffs on all imports from China and 35 percent on many goods from Mexico. Such proposals would be inflationary, raising prices on so many products that Americans routinely buy now. Can you imagine what a 45% increase in the price of a cell phone or car parts will feel like to your pocketbook? Such moves could also spark financial market turmoil and even bring on a recession. That's not going to help you much.

All politicians are full of the hot air they use to tell people what they want to hear.

Trump talks about encouraging business to bring the manufacturing jobs f/ over seas back to America but these tend to be unskilled/low skilled labor jobs that won't pay very much.

If you want to get ahead, there are plenty of decent jobs that require trade school training or get a world class education that competes w/ the global economy.

Gov can create jobs by funding infra structure improvement but Trump doesn't talk about where the money will come from.

For the most part, job creation gets stimulated by consumerism which is directly affected by confidence. But, good paying jobs are getting harder to find as the US sinks below standards to compete globally because higher education constantly prices people past what they can afford.

His main proposal and he's right is that we've made trade deals with other countries that were terrible for us and therefore jobs moved to those countries.

NAFTA, for example, made it easy to outsource work to Mexico and bring the goods back here tax free. So, employers moved their factories there.

China also does what's called money manipulation, where they artificially keep their currency low value so in their country, they get a relatively strong wage but it is low on the world market. This allows them to produce goods cheaply.

Furthermore, by allowing illegal immigration, we lower the value of the jobs that remain because illegal immigrants will work for low wages. Furthermore, it puts more people in the job pool. It's supply and demand...if there are fewer jobs than workers you can offer less because people have a hard time finding jobs. If there are fewer workers, employers have to pay more because they have a hard time finding workers.

Our government has consistently made the most whorish trade agreements for decades, whether Democrat or Republican or a mix. Trump seems to be the only person in politics whose eyes aren't completely blind to that glaring reality.

Fix the trade deals and make them Even Steven, already!

He has explained a lot of it. The keys to adding good jobs is to enforce immigration laws and get out of really bad trade agreements ("free trade" sucks!)

Trump lies a lot.

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Trump said he could pay off the 19 trillion or so in debt in 8 years WITH decreasing taxes, taking out ISIS, having a deportation force, improving infrastructure etc.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/w...

He does lie often.

Eliminate the minimum wage so Employers can hire three for the price of one.

Its a lie.

There is not now nor has their ever been any substance whatsoever to anything Trump promises or says.

I am speaking to you as a former Labor Advocate from the days following the firing of PATCO (the Professional Air Traffic Controllers) by a scripted Alzheimer's-afflicted Ronald Reagan that declared all-out WAR on our nation's full-time workers, especially union workers with benefits such as overtime pay, vacation pay, vested pensions, employer-provided healthcare, or profit-sharing. The focus shifted in the wake of the PATCO firing away from the well-being of workers to the greed-driven profits-grubbing interests of the newly deregulated (by the GOP) corporate executives, who had gotten the signal from the Reagan/Bush White House that if their full-time workers could be pressured into striking or quitting, the corporate bosses could then hire PERMANENT PART-TIME REPLACEMENT WORKERS to "expand profit margins." Soon even the "pesky" minimum wage requirements here in the U.S. were resented by corporate leaders, so the Reagan/Bush administration turned a blind eye to floods of illegal immigrants willing to work for far less than minimum wage became the GOP "norm" as more and more American workers were displaced. Then came the "bright idea" for the greedy-gut CEOs to OUTSOURCE to third-world nations where the average "pay" (in India, for example) was $300 PER YEAR, with no benefits, no limits on hours a worker could be asked to work, no overtime pay---slave conditions...and always in this new Reagan/Bush ERA OF GREED, the motive went back to Wall Street to "expand profit margins" and cater to investors at the terrible expense of U.S. workers and our economy.

Here is a book you can read (I sent it to Bill Clinton when he was first campaigning for President): Donald Bartlett & James Steele, "America, What Went Wrong?"

Trump availed himself of the Era of Greed post-PATCO firing and he has been fined more than once for hiring undocumented workers, then UNDERPAYING those workers while keeping them in substandard conditions. There is a newly released documentary I highly recommend that you can download from ITunes: "Trump: What's The Deal?" This documentary was 25 years in the making, and was at first blocked from any release by Trump himself, so the investigative reporters who assembled the details finally released on ITunes. Get Trump's TRUE COLORS by watching this film!

To "Spread the Poverty": The immigration laws have been enforced and the borders more secure than at any time in modern history by the Obama administration (see whitehouse.gov). Our illegal immigration flow has been at NET ZERO since 2012, especially after President Obama set up a covert "Operation Coyote" through ICE and Homeland Security to track, then mass arrest human traffickers at our southern border, confiscating all these coyotes' equipment (including telltale cell phones), freezing any monetary assets in U.S. banks, and uncovering their U.S. contacts.

The misguided rants against "free trade" fail to comprehend some basic threats to the U.S. economy if we fail to counter Chinese (or other nations') aggression and remain competitive on the world stage. Here, as a former UNION Advocate, I can credibly BAWL OUT union leaders for being short-sighted and not GOING GLOBAL back in the 1980s on into today. Our union leaders should have set up branch offices in the Third-World nations to become "outside agitators" for these slave-wage countries, encouraging those abused workers to FORM A UNION just as was done here in the U.S. during the days of child labor.

Trump is a guy who admits he tries to game the system to his advantage---to pay zero in taxes by hook or crook, to hire illegal immigrants for his hotels and construction projects, to outsource, to renege on signed contracts once the work is done (refusing to pay for the work). The guy really is a total conman who is facing fraud charges filed by the New York Attorney General (with a $40 million fine attached) for his bait-and-switch Trump University.

Look at the JOBS CREATION RECORD of President Obama and his administration, and that includes former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (whitehouse.gov and recovery.gov), who was able to get far away nations like Mali and Malaysia to sign off on buying more American-made goods during her tenure at State. The rebuilding of the U.S. manufacturing jobs base began in mid-2009 with the wise application of Recovery Act dollars (see recovery.gov) to push the "Green Energies Initiative" that had the potential for making the U.S. a world leader in the manufacture, marketing, and world-wide sales of renewable energy products.