Alibaba's Jack Ma backs down from promise to Trump to bring 1 million jobs to the US

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  1. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So much winning!

    Indeed, Jack Ma, who promised to bring 1,000,000 jobs to the US states his previous promise is null and void due to a change in the relations between the US and China.

    Among other things, he cites "trade tensions", which I assume is related to the escalating trade war started at the behest of our president.

    Seems this is the sort of winning the president said we would get tired of seeing.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/jac...ger-planning-to-create-1-million-us-jobs.html


    Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Chinese retail giant Alibaba, says the company no longer plans to create 1 million jobs in the United States in the wake of the ongoing trade conflict between the U.S. and China.

    Ma made his original job creation pronouncement during a high-profile meeting with Donald Trump in January 2017 before Trump's inauguration as president.

    "The promise was made on the premise of friendly US-China partnership and rational trade relations," Ma told Chinese news site Xinhua on Wednesday. "That premise no longer exists today, so our promise cannot be fulfilled."
     
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  2. Quantum Nerd

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    Alibaba was NEVER going to bring 1 million jobs to the US. Not even Amazon employs 1 million people. This was always just wishful thinking by Trump fans. Of course, they are making a habit of counting Trump's chickens before they hatch.
     
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    Probably good news because our existing employers cannot find workers too fill open jobs.We have millions of prime working age lazy assed Americans who prefer staying home watching TV and playing on the internet.
     
  4. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    Well the suggestion is that the gullible of the Trump Fan Boys need to take their snow flake coloring books and color us thinking and suspicious non fan skeptics surprised. NOT,
     
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    Ohh no we should let China keep raping our economy and intellectual property... You guys are too much.
     
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    That I million jobs by Ali Baba and the Seven Thieves was always nothing but a stream of bovine excrement propelled by diarrhea stream which is constantly streaming from the oral oriface of one DJT.
     
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    You do realize that if Ali Baba was going to "create" any jobs here they would be for selling Chinese make goods that Chinese workers are making money manufacturing. There is virtually no " intellectual property" involved with an Amazon WannaBe. Ali Baba is a Chinese Company shine profits would go to China.

    Ali Baba us one of the rapists not saviors of America.
     
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    Your own link says that experts doubted the 1 million job claim to begin with.

    lol

    Did you even read your own link?
     
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    Ah well... we'll survive.
     
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    Good. It turns out that we don't need them. That may have been an attractive offer when unemployment was high, but there is no shortage of retail jobs as of today. This is good news.
     
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    They're already invading our Universities and pushing out Americana. I don't see the left fighting that.

    Oh wait, it doesn't involve Trump so it's not worth the protest. :roll:
     
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    You sure would have said that if Obama had bragged about 1 million supposed new jobs, which then never appeared.
     
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    A presidential candidate promises to bring jobs back, a sitting president says those jobs aren’t going to come back. Who would you rather roll with?
     
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    Yeah, if the job market and economy was bad.
     
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    Just out of curiosity, how are they “invading our Universities and pushing out Americans” ?
     
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    Unemployment wasn't high when the offer was made.
     
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    Uh if you don't realize China has raped America of billions of dollars a year than it's literally not worth arguing. Hate to tell you even the left admits this one. We don't need his million jobs, what we need is china playing fair. We're roaring right now, their market is down 30%, they have point blank said they want to allow no imports by 2025, uh if you think that's fair free trade and we should play nice then I'm sorry your delusional.
     
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    A pretty pathetic thread, in my view. The Trump economy has been strong and because Trump has rightly addressed the trade imbalance with China someone backs out on a pledge to deliver jobs.

    I guess some petty opportunists can't wait to get their shots in. Sad.
     
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    If you do not realize that "we" , that is our companies allowed China to "rape" us then it is you and not I who is delusional. No union, no POTUS, no administration forced "us" to allow China to rape us. If you do not realize that our companies agreed to have their goods manufactured in China because itvwas cheeper than American labor producing goods.
    It was our companies who agreed to "trade" their intellectual property for "cheep" labor then for "cheep" goods. It is our companies who sold out our laborers our American workers fir cheep goods.

    There was no "you must let China produce our products" law proposed by Congress or proposed by a POTUS nor signed into law by a POTUS.
    There was no law that forced Trump or Ivanka to have stuff made in China. There was no law that forced Trimp to have his MAGA hats made in China. There was no law to force Trump to have his 2020 campaign signs made in China.

    If you do not understand that or not believe that you are the one who is "delusional" not I.
     
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    We never needed any foreign company to come here to sell goods manufactured by foreign companies.
     
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    Oh coome on be serious. The trade war was just started by Trump several months ago, the economy has been improving slowly for years. We do not know what the fall out effect of the Trump Trade wars will be.
     
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    The ChiComs are invading our universities?? Which one? Do you have videos of this invasion? Why hasn't Trump ordered our military which Trump Fan Boys say is now under Trump is stronger than it ever was been under any other POTUS ever ever ever to attack those invading ChiComs? Come on we demand an answer.
     
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    Wow! When Trump ****s up it is everyone else's fault?
     
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    Itvwas 't an offer it was BS spouted by the current king of BS none other than DJT himself.
     
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    More deflection and blame slamming
     
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