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8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com)
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Sprint is moving 5,000 offshore jobs back to the United States and OneWeb, a satellite Internet startup, is adding 3,000 more jobs in the U.S. From a report on USA Today: The jobs were made possible, Trump said, through Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, a Japanese billionaire and technology investor, who met with Trump in New York earlier this month. After that meeting, the two businessmen announced Softbank would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 jobs. Softbank owns 80% of Sprint and this month it invested $1 billion in OneWeb, a venture that intends to offer affordable Internet access. Son called the investment a "first step" in his commitment to Trump.
I don't think those 5,000 jobs hand-delivering cellphones announced in 2015 are the same jobs being announced at the end of 2016.
The 2015 announcement is a possible number of jobs as a pilot program grows out of Kansas City.
The 2016 announcement is a transfer of 5,000 existing jobs located outside the US into America.
One is about new jobs, the other is about existing (mostly call center?) jobs back into America.
The only two things these reports have in common is the employer (Sprint) and the number of jobs (5,000)... Is Sprint still planning to hand-deliver cellphones nation-wide? It's been well over a year since they announced plans to do this nation-wide, but I've never heard about it.
Ken
nameless faceless sources....like the director of the CIA, the head of the DIA, and the head of the NSA.
also, do you think the CIA just burns their sources in Russia so quickly?
or did you not realize that the evidence would itself reveal who those assets are?
read the news, the real news, for once in your life and you'd know why these agencies are being slow to write their report; it has to be done without also tipping their hand to Russia as to how they know.
and again: I am so glad we're more concerned with some DNC emails that showed office staff being office staff, more than we are with electing the most unqualified man to run for office, an admitted sexual assaulter, scam artist, and general nincompoop. we really dodged a bullet there.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
You mean like telling the truth about a corrupt politician?
Didn't work.
He got elected anyway.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
"I am so glad we're more concerned with some DNC emails that showed office staff being office staff, "
Yeah... that's all it was. No attempts to try and get Trump to be the nominee because the DNC didn't feel Clinton beat many of the others... no attempts to sabotage Sanders campaign in various ways. Nobody from CNN provided debate questions to Clinton... Just office staff being office staff.
"nameless faceless sources....like the director of the CIA, the head of the DIA, and the head of the NSA.
also, do you think the CIA just burns their sources in Russia so quickly?
or did you not realize that the evidence would itself reveal who those assets are?"
Except Wikileaks -- who LEADED the emails says they didn't get those from the Russians.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
the Palestinians weren't negotiating in good faith before - they've never recognized Israel's right to exist.
Because Israeli policies are so focused towards a two-state policy. Except they keep building heavily fortified and armed Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land (these settlers are armed by the Israeli government and are afforded practical immunity for killings of Palestinians), have cracked down on elected Arab members of the Knesset (and also passed a law that allows them to be expelled from the Knesset by a 2/3 vote), deny Palestinian building permits and access to reliable water and electricity, and will shoot dead teenagers who throw rocks at armored vehicles.
But in all fairness, Israel and Palestine really are true "co-belligerents", but since the leaders of both sides need the status quo to remain in power the possibility of both sides negotiating in good faith is extremely small. At this point any solution that doesn't involve the eradication or expulsion of one side will have to be enforced. With emphasis on "force".
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil