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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.
... the name of a telecom company, as opposed to a bank? Or why doesn't this company have more of a 'communications' name to it? Everytime I see this company and its name, my mind tells me Cap Markets, Mutual Funds, Banking, et al
Normalizing? You mean like saying the Russians didn't try to influence the election?
We have yet to have a single piece of evidence that supports that claim. In fact, we don't even have a NAME of a source that makes the claim. We DO have Assange and others associated with Wikileaks explicitly stating it was NOT the Russians, but an inside job. So who do we believe: nameless, faceless sources in the CIA (who have shown no evidence at all) or Wikileaks who have leaked true and accurate e-mails (as not a single one was disavowed by the Democrats or the Hillary campaigns)? Who stands to benefit, politically, from blaming it on Russia? The same team claiming it was Russia...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!