Remember one of Trump's first moves was to subsidize coal mines in west Virginia? Instead of paying for miners to retrain for a new skill with that money he kept an industry everyone knew was dying running. And everyone says "he's a business man" no "business man" would keep an unprofitable industry in business.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

German CDU did similar bullshit.

They cut funding in renewables, costing those sectors >100k jobs to protect around 20k jobs.

One might think it wasn't about jobs at all, but that sweet sweet lobby money

[–] rex30303@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey you forgot we were also leaders in those fields technology wise. And iirc they only protected only 10k jobs.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leaders in lobbyism cough~~legal bribery~~cough?

Yeah i think the 20k was an estimate of a total of jobs in the affected sector, not all of which would be cut? I'd have to look into the source again but yeah, it was pretty clearly cxu bullshit.

[–] rex30303@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No actual leaders our solar panel industry was quite good afaik. And of of the day it doesnt matter if it was a 5:1 or 10:1 ratio bullshit is bullshit. And if you want to have high blood pressure look up who of the NRW Landtag espacially CDU has a job at RWE.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah true, sorry i was caught up im memeing on the party.

I know, in general its fucking crazy how they can claim to be unbiased in these decisions.

Club Deutscher Unternehmer checks out

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

lol that fellas a clown

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The same businessman who is such an utter business failure that he has resorted to declaring bankruptcy SIX times. Checks out.

[–] cantrips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Trump's companies aren't profitable either. So kinda makes sense.