Fun With The Candidates Part II: Rubio On Guns, Trump On Jobs
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 2 months ago
So much for the Rubio pro-gun rights advocacy.
Trump on outsourcing jobs overseas.
Back in the days of Trump’s blog on the website of his now-defunct Trump University website, however, he wrote a post in defense of outsourcing titled, “Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.”
“We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs — how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses,” wrote Trump. “But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing.”
“I understand that outsourcing means that employees lose jobs,” continued Trump. “Because work is often outsourced to other countries, it means Americans lose jobs. In other cases, nonunion employees get the work. Losing jobs is never a good thing, but we have to look at the bigger picture.”
But as Trump himself has said, “everything is negotiable.” And just like Rubio above, this was all before he decided to run for president. So there’s that.
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On March 3, 2016 at 9:25 am, Josh said:
There’s also this portion of the health strategy Trump released yesterday, ahead of tonight’s debate:
So, bring back jobs and manufacturing to the USA, except for the ones in pharmaceuticals. Those can go (along with all the innovation through R&D, via profit). Trump is not a stupid man, not by a long shot. He knows that would-be importers such as TEVA out of India are doing nothing but reverse-engineering our drugs, manufacturing them by the truckload with far less QA, and dumping them all over that side of the globe.
Is he serious? Is it this merely another “wall,” a negotiating piece? I don’t know how to tell fact from fiction at this point, and that is precisely his goal.
Trump is a master candidate. What comes next is literally up for debate, because no one can say they know where he will land on anything.
On March 3, 2016 at 10:20 am, Herschel Smith said:
And of course, reverse engineering drugs (or anything else) is a violation of patents, in addition to being unethical and immoral. A government that allows that to happen is fomenting illegality and immorality. It’s called “theft” in the Bible.
On March 3, 2016 at 11:55 am, Blake said:
Expanding on your theme, it costs billions to develop new drugs and for every successful drug, there are many failures.
Anyway, drug reimportation will not fix the market distortions created by government regulation.
Also, the US basically subsidizes drugs for other countries. Countries like to price-control US developed drugs and Americans wind up carrying the cost because the cost has to be paid by someone.
On March 5, 2016 at 10:06 am, Ned Weatherby said:
In sum, Trump was in favor of outsourcing jobs before he was against it.