Andylusion
Platinum Member
Correct, Trump should have led by example, "Do as I do and not what I say". So companies did, they went to China.He paid a factory in China to make his products. He could have accepted a smaller profit margin and paid Americans
Nah. That's ridiculous. Do you really think CEOs are making business decisions based on what Trump did? Really? Truthfully, does that seem even remotely likely to you?
You actually think that executives are sitting around saying to each other:
"We need to open a manufacturing plant. How do we pick where to build our plant? We could base that on access to the market, or regulations, or cost of building the plant, or the cost of transportation, access to utilities, or the cost of labor, or ability to get through government red tape...... or..... or! We could just follow the example of whomever is in the White House! Let's see.... Trump had a tie made in China, so that's what we'll do!"
Really? Because that is what your nonsense implies. That somehow people in these companies are just blindly following the president, without any bases in reality? No I don't think so.
It's like Candycorn up there, who posted American Apparel. Wouldn't the executives at a company look at what happened to American Apparel? They would look to see how a company dedicated to making cloths in the US would end up? Which in American Apparels case, they went bankrupt after years of not making a profit, and ended up sold off in bankruptcy, all their factories were closed, and now all of their clothing is made cheaply in south America.
Would not executives look at that, and make decisions based on economic facts, rather than "Trump did it!"?
And by the way... who are these people who based their choices in life on the president?
I'm really baffled by this idea, that people change their lives, because the president did something.
In my entire life, I have never at any point choose to not do something because Clinton or Obama did X, nor have ever chosen to do something, because Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr, or Trump did something.
Lead by example? I can see someone following someone's example, if they say... open a company, or investing, or as a successful sales person, or a successful electrician or programmer.
But the president? Who does that? Ho sits around saying "Well what did Trump do today? I need to know, so I can decide how to live my life!" Who does that for any president? I didn't see ghetto people who supported Obama, changing their lives, to stop talking like a hoodrat, stop popping out kids unmarried, and living like a respectable person, because Obama did it. Who did? Where are these people?