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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.
Trump is taking credit, but he had nothing to do with it, the investment in question has been in the works for a long time.
Those 5K jobs were part of a previous announcement from before Trump was elected.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-sprint-jobs-233019
They've already asked, it was already announced, they've already admitted it was part of the already announced spending.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/28/trump-isnt-responsible-for-sprint-bringing-5-000-jobs-to-the-us/
"When I reached out to a Sprint spokeswoman asking if the announcement was a direct result of working with Trump or part of a pre-existing deal, she copy and pasted the press release I'd sent along with my first email. I responded saying I already had the press release and asked again if this was a direct result of working with Trump or part of a pre-existing deal in place. I tagged Sprint in a tweet about the situation, and it wasn't until after that started getting retweeted that the spokesperson responded...."This is part of the 50,000 jobs that Masa previously announced," she said."
I'm afraid Trump is very gullible and very needy. They can tell him anything and he'll fall for it like a child.
It will be a race to the bottom for Americans to lower their standard of living faster than China, India, Pakistan, Indonedia and Vietnam.
Or like the Carrier announcement, where he claimed credit for jobs that were never being eliminated
Where did you hear that? These jobs were going to be moved to Mexico:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
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
I agree with this, and say pretty much every single election that $NEW_GUY is going to take credit or get blamed for whatever happens in the next 4 years.
Yeah, we should really quit doing that. Trump has nothing to do with those 10,000 jobs, Incidentally, jobs fluctuate by over 100,000/month, so gaining 10,000 in the almost 2 months since he's been elected is literally in the statistical noise.
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 swear the man using me as a pawn isn't using me as a pawn.
Trust me.
Also, does anyone else remember the time so long ago, like, about a year ago, maybe a tad more, where the GOP was all "Obama gotta bomb Russia cause UKRAINE, and show them he isn't a weak Russia lover!"
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.