We lost 6 million manufacturing jobs under bush. We lost a million more in Obama's first year which he made up in subsequent years.

I would love to see what Trump has in mind that will get anywhere close to replacing that 6 million jobs the last Republican President tanked. Currently he's averaging 400 a week. At this rate, he will only replace 386,000 jobs in eight years.

Maybe Trump needs a Plan B. The bully pulpit is not really working.

All of these announcements are CEO's fawning ways to buy favors from Trump. From the article:

"“You’re paving the way through your administration your policies to make it easier to do business in this country,” Liveris told Trump. “Not a red tape country, but a red carpet country for American business. That’s what we have to do.”"

DOW Chemical, forced by EPA to pay a settlement in 2011 for alleged violations in Michigan of Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is now bringing jobs back to the state that recently went through a water contamination scandal that made national news. Can't imagine any reason at all that Dow's CEO would be sucking up to the PEOTUS who can't even seem to do simple math that 700 lost - 200 gained is still 500 jobs lost overall.

https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/dow-chemical-company-settlement

I suppose those factory workers can become lab researchers?

Anonymous wrote:http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/09/trump-prepares-address-grand-rapids-rally/95223894/

Trump is making American job creation a priority.

so Dow Chemical, one of the largest chemical corporations in the world, with over $60 Billion in sales, promises to bring 200 (two hundred) R&D jobs to Michigan in the future (they are now just in the early phase of start thinking about planning what exactly they will do eventually) but in the meantime cut 700 manufacturing jobs.

at 200 jobs at a time, it will take Trump about 2000 years to make America great again.....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You forgot to post this part:

Liveris did not say how the Michigan expansion plans would fit with Dow’s ongoing multibillion-dollar merger with rival Delaware-based DuPont. He made the announcement almost six months after Dow Chemical announced in late June it would cut 700 jobs from its Midland workforce of roughly 6,400 people as part of its drive to cut costs globally following its acquisition of Dow Corning Corp.

The company’s news release did not say when it would break ground on the new research facility. Company spokesman Jarrod Erpelding said the firm is “in the very early stages of developing specific plans and time lines for the center.”

Thanks chicken little.

LOL, it's from the same article. You Trumpers need to learn to read to the end.

Anonymous wrote:You forgot to post this part:

Liveris did not say how the Michigan expansion plans would fit with Dow’s ongoing multibillion-dollar merger with rival Delaware-based DuPont. He made the announcement almost six months after Dow Chemical announced in late June it would cut 700 jobs from its Midland workforce of roughly 6,400 people as part of its drive to cut costs globally following its acquisition of Dow Corning Corp.

The company’s news release did not say when it would break ground on the new research facility. Company spokesman Jarrod Erpelding said the firm is “in the very early stages of developing specific plans and time lines for the center.”

Thanks chicken little.

OMG people. In a year when we measure the number of manufacturing jobs lost, this is all going to seem silly.

Anonymous wrote:They are rebranding something they were already planning to do. Corporations do not make new expansion plans in a couple of weeks based on an election. This would have been studied and planned for a year or more.

Exactly.
Not that this will stop Trump and his sheeple from trying to claim credit.

Anonymous wrote:"Dow Chemical Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris said the Midland-based chemical giant would build a new research and development center in its mid-Michigan hometown.
“We’re going to invest in a new state-of-the-art innovation center in Michigan,” Liveris said on stage at Trump’s rally at the DeltaPlex Arena near Grand Rapids."

LOL.. how many "manufacturing" jobs are going to be created in an R&D facility?

Yes, the one bright spot of our economy is R&D. And you know who a lot of R&D companies hire? That's rigth... foreign scientists. LOL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You forgot to post this part:

Liveris did not say how the Michigan expansion plans would fit with Dow’s ongoing multibillion-dollar merger with rival Delaware-based DuPont. He made the announcement almost six months after Dow Chemical announced in late June it would cut 700 jobs from its Midland workforce of roughly 6,400 people as part of its drive to cut costs globally following its acquisition of Dow Corning Corp.

The company’s news release did not say when it would break ground on the new research facility. Company spokesman Jarrod Erpelding said the firm is “in the very early stages of developing specific plans and time lines for the center.”

What's the point? Trump is saving some jobs that Dow was shedding, and Dow has plans to expand in MI.

Trump plans to cut the tax rate for business in half to create a favorable business climate and encourage business to stay and do business in the US. My home state, NY, uses reduced tax rates to induce business to build and employ NYers, but taxes the crap out of them after approx 10 years. (This business stay for 10 years, then flee when NY starts the blood/tax sucking routine that has caused people to flee NY in unprecedented numbers.)

Every study of tax incentives shows that they subsidize the baseline - they waste money subsidizing projects that would have happened anyway with private financing. Nobody builds something new just for temprary tax credits. It has to be a good long-term business decision first.

They are rebranding something they were already planning to do. Corporations do not make new expansion plans in a couple of weeks based on an election. This would have been studied and planned for a year or more.

Anonymous wrote:You forgot to post this part:

Liveris did not say how the Michigan expansion plans would fit with Dow’s ongoing multibillion-dollar merger with rival Delaware-based DuPont. He made the announcement almost six months after Dow Chemical announced in late June it would cut 700 jobs from its Midland workforce of roughly 6,400 people as part of its drive to cut costs globally following its acquisition of Dow Corning Corp.

The company’s news release did not say when it would break ground on the new research facility. Company spokesman Jarrod Erpelding said the firm is “in the very early stages of developing specific plans and time lines for the center.”

What's the point? Trump is saving some jobs that Dow was shedding, and Dow has plans to expand in MI.

Trump plans to cut the tax rate for business in half to create a favorable business climate and encourage business to stay and do business in the US. My home state, NY, uses reduced tax rates to induce business to build and employ NYers, but taxes the crap out of them after approx 10 years. (This business stay for 10 years, then flee when NY starts the blood/tax sucking routine that has caused people to flee NY in unprecedented numbers.)

You forgot to post this part:

Liveris did not say how the Michigan expansion plans would fit with Dow’s ongoing multibillion-dollar merger with rival Delaware-based DuPont. He made the announcement almost six months after Dow Chemical announced in late June it would cut 700 jobs from its Midland workforce of roughly 6,400 people as part of its drive to cut costs globally following its acquisition of Dow Corning Corp.

The company’s news release did not say when it would break ground on the new research facility. Company spokesman Jarrod Erpelding said the firm is “in the very early stages of developing specific plans and time lines for the center.”

"Dow Chemical Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris said the Midland-based chemical giant would build a new research and development center in its mid-Michigan hometown.
“We’re going to invest in a new state-of-the-art innovation center in Michigan,” Liveris said on stage at Trump’s rally at the DeltaPlex Arena near Grand Rapids."

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/09/trump-prepares-address-grand-rapids-rally/95223894/

Trump is making American job creation a priority.