Yeah, and this is the kind of deal he'll be making with Russia and China and Mexico and the EU and whoever else. It may be hard to tell whether Trump got fleeced because the people he was dealing with were so much smarter than him or if he knew all along that the lousy deal he made was just for show. In the end we know for sure who gets fleeced: us.

The intended result of Pres. Ronnie's "Let's-defund-public-education-to-create-generations-of -Americans-stupid-enough-to-vote-GOP" pogrom.

yay

Trump never intended anything - except to get elected. He continuously promised to slap a 35% tax on Carrier et al and that in and of itself would be the great equalizer. Companies would not leave becasue they couldn't sell back here in the US without a large tariff being added to their product. Frankly, not a bad idea. But - he didn't do anything even remotely like that. He did exactly what he had been raling about on the campaign trail. He bribed the company to stay with the taxpayer's money. And guess what, not a single member of the tradional media called him on this. This was a "win" for Trump. Bull. This is nothing but smoke and mirrors. He's a con artist through and through. Indianna voters just got fleeced for $7 million.

Trump represents the party of free trade, and not by accident! You won't see Crooked Donny smacking down little Pauly Ryan regarding the TPP...ain't gonna happen. Until Democrats start speaking out like this during the tiny amount of time they get on shows like Meet the Fascist's, we're doomed to have sand kicked in our faces right on through to Crooked Donny's/Mattis nuclear carpet bombing of ISIS...then it's game over anyway.

Trump probably got a bribe himself

I will never understand the left. 7 million in tax cuts over ten years to save 800 jobs. $875 a year per job. Math adds up to me. Hopefully he will stick to his promise and give that same incentives to every company and keep millions of more jobs in America. On the other had the left praised Obama when he handed 500 million of hard working tax payer dollars to Solindra to create zero jobs. He isn't even the President yet and he saved more jobs then Obama did in 8 years.

I guess Skeeter and his "Merica" are all basically braindead to the fact that crooked Donny manufactures all of his crap overseas....it's no secret, but never mentioned by the media, heaven forbid.

So we have a scoundrel profiting from the practice of free trade pretending to be upset about free trade. The god damn lies never end...and we're all at fault for not speaking out...hardly a word mentioned about his Trump U scam settlement, or his ongoing charity fraud. I give up!

Fact : Trump lost the election and the Teapublicans lost the Senate..swing states and all! Without NATO stepping in the election fraud will continue. I don't have stages of grief when it comes to fraud. I simply plan on being very very disobedient!!!!! I hope others join me. The fight has just begun.

No deep space I am not in a bubble i am a business owner so have the unfortunate task of making a profit or I go out of business. How you can compare a tax deduction to a bailout is beyond me. Anyone can give away other people's money anyway to buy jobs. Obama put Americans about a trillion dollars a year in debt. Why is it that democrats don't count debt. All those interest payments are digging right into the healthcare and education budgets.

Yes, Kend, you are in a bubble, one with very thick walls, wherein your math only calculates one side of the equation. What, you think you're something special because you're a business owner, cornering market savviness? Well, "Hooray for me." Or is it, "Woe is me." Hard to tell.

Where do you think your profits come from, if employees/customers don't have enough money in their pockets to buy products because of unlivable wages, when most of the profits rise to the top of the greed pyramid? And who do you think pays the taxes, if millionaires and billionaires and mega-corporations weasel out of their fair share -- the taxes for hi-ways and bridges, sewer and water systems, an educated and healthy workforce, government agencies that ensure product safety, clean air, water, and food, the military, the police force, the firefighters, the court system, and all the rest of the infrastructure, of which tax dodgers take full advantage yet for which they don't want to pay?

Taxes are the price of admission to live in a civilized society. Go live in Somalia; I hear their taxes are nearly nonexistent. See if a business model that pays starvation wages and no taxes can generate a profit there.

So that's how you can compare a tax cut (giveaway) for a greedy, unpatriotic corporation to a bailout for patriotic workers who pay taxes and buy products (perhaps even yours), and who are now earning a healthy profit for their owners. If you can't pay livable wages and just taxes, then you have a piss-poor business model and should shut your doors and allow a smarter business owner to profit on your share of the market.

Oh, by the way, Obama was prudent enough to put W. Bush's stratospheric, hidden debt openly on the books and to shoulder the responsibility. Besides, American Treasury bonds -- largely owned by American citizens -- are still the safest and most sought after investment in the world, affirmed by their low interest rates. So there's your so-called "evil" debt, which Democrats absolutely do count, and which Republicans absolutely do not.

Break out of your bubble, Kend, and look up the "two Santa Clauses theory." It's your guys who've consistently run up the debt to such heady heights, starting with your "Saint" Reagan, who tripled it, while he lavished "tax deductions" on millionaires (mostly Republican donors) and raised taxes on the middle class 11 times. Some studies say 13 times, if you count all the double bank shots and angles of the dangle.

Again (I'm serious), why do right-wing trolls bother to post comments on this blog without (obviously) listening to or reading what Thom has to say? If they did, it would engender more fruitful discussions. Thom is the first one to admit that he doesn't always get stuff right, but he sure tries hard to, and he is one helluva step ahead of most political observers out there, on either side of the aisle.

1. It's always election fraud unless your guy wins. Fact pure and simple.

2. Trumps point to Clinton and the world in the debate was. "I use the laws and rules to my advantage. If you don't like it, change the laws or rules." Amen brother.

3. Trump is not yet president and he is being attacked by progressives for whatever position he takes. Calm down. If he changes the trade laws he too will have to change his country of manufacture or pay the appropriate tariffs.

4. Accept the fact you lost. It's over, done, dead, period. Trump will be YOUR president. Complaining is one of the progressives great attributes. You are good at it because you have had a lot of practice. You have eight years to regroup. Get at it.

@#20:

1. Your "fact" is not pure and simple. Quite the opposite, it's a direct lie perpetrated by shameless, Republican propagandists and parroted by their gullible blind followers. Statistically, Democratic voter fraud does not exist anywhere at all; Republican election fraud absolutely does -- on a massive scale! If you don't want to remain ignorant, study up on the "Interstate Crosscheck" program, engineered by Kris Kobach, that illegally purges millions of mostly Democrats off the registration rolls. And that's certainly not the only way Republican Secretaries of State have been fraudulently disenfranchising Democrats for many, many election cycles now. Greg Palast, Brad Friedman, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among numerous others, are excellent and thorough investigators of the large body of actual facts, not your made-up variety.

2. In context of that debate quote (paraphrased):

"Sniff. believe me; It's simply genius to declare four bankruptcies (okay, maybe six), stiffing bankers, small investors, contractors, employees, taxpayers, and anyone else within sniffing distance. But, hey, I came out on top of all those losers, which is all that matters in the end. Right? Because it's all about me, not you. Try to ignore the fact that I lost more money, which wasn't really mine, than a mere commoner could earn in several lifetimes, during a phenomenal economic expansion in the boom years of (Damn, I hate to say this!) a Clinton presidency, when virtually everyone else was winning, and nobody was as big a LOSER as I was. (Yikes, who could possibly lose by owning Atlantic City casinos in the roaring 90's?!) Ahem, so put me in charge, and I'll fix your economy all right, so fast you won't believe it. Believe me.

"Sniff. Believe me; I was so damn lucky that crooked Hillary and the rest of the adults in Congress could not vote until years after the fact -- thanks to Republican Supreme Court dithering -- to close the fuzzy Republican loophole that allowed me to declare almost a billion dollar loss of OPM (other people's money)! Yet, such sleazy, er, genius finagling then allowed me (I kid you not!) to offset, 'bigly' (big league), my personal earnings, so as not to pay any Federal taxes (to support the troops) for nearly two decades. Damn the little people! See, that's why I'm rich and you're not. Genius, I tells ya, pure genius! Sniff."

3. Oooh, a little truth leaked out there: you admit to Trump's unpatriotic, bald-faced hypocrisy: manufacturing his cheap-ass products in countries with scandalously cheap labor laws and scant pollution regulations, and then hawking them back to us as over-priced trinkets and baubles. Tariffs as a solution to so-called "free" trade is a purely progressive Democratic battle they've been waging desperately against your party (and Corporate Dem sellouts) for at least fifty years to keep jobs in America. I'm glad you're finally on board, but do you really think the Republican Congress is going to let the orange fruitcake puppet get away with it -- let alone his own Cabinet filled with fellow billionaire, Wall Street swamp gators? Puhlease!

4.Right-wing swamp critters ( to the right of Attila the Hun) should know all about whining and complaining since that's all they've ever done for the last eight years about Obama, Hillary, Democrats, and liberals in general. In psychology, they call that projection. The difference is that the sniveling crybabies in the Party of the Rich and Privileged are basing their complaints on endlessly debunked lies. Please look in the mirror while you spew out such nonsense.

Trump may be your President, but he is not mine and never will be. Movements start from the ground up, not the top down. Until this country amends the Constitution to honor the popular vote (go to "National Popular Vote.com") and relegate the ridiculous Electoral College to the dustbin of history, the People should refuse to recognize this clown as their representative. Just like in every other democracy and every other election, it should be: one person, one vote. Some Faux News-brainwashed hillbilly in Aladamnbama should not have his vote count more than any other person, regardless if they happen to live in a city or anywhere else. "Done, dead, period."

And you still haven't adequately addressed 2950-10K's comments "about Trump's outsourcing of his own jobs, Trump U, charity fraud, and election fraud." Because you can't!

The 1% owned mainstream media will not report on how many jobs Obama saved. 800 is a pitance compared. Now who pays the $7 million? The people of Indanna.