Trump’s Misleading Numbers About the Carrier Deal

The leftist media continues it's war against President Trump, or are they? This article written by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post delves into, and tries to account for the numbers put forth by Trump on the Carrier deal. Sadly, I guess it depends on what newspaper is covering the article nowadays to tell fact from fiction in the political landscape. After reading this article by Mr. Kessler twice, I have come to the conclusion that his numbers are pretty accurate and to the point. You'll come to your own educated opinion or conclusion after perusing this controversial blog post.

Please feel free to comment below. I'd like to know what you think about the numbers put forth in the article and if you feel the public was mislead or not by President Trump's claims on job creation at Carrier Worldwide, which specializes in the advancement heating and cooling equipment for both commercial and residential applications.

The Post's Fact Checker took a closer look at the claims President-elect Donald Trump made during a speech in Indiana on Dec. 1, about the deal to keep jobs at a Carrier plant there that were due to be shipped to Mexico. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“But I will tell you that United Technologies and Carrier stepped it up and now they’re keeping — actually the number’s over 1,100 people, which is so great, which is so great …. I just noticed — I wrote down because I heard it — since about six years ago, 260 new federal regulations have passed, 53 of which affect this plant. Fifty-three new regulations. Massively expensive and probably none of them amount to anything in terms of safety or the things that you’d have regulations for.”
—Donald Trump, remarks in Indianapolis, Dec. 1, 2016
With great fanfare, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had saved 1,100 jobs in Indiana that were due to be shipped to Mexico by Carrier, a unit of United Technologies. The deal came after the state of Indiana (where Vice President-elect Mike Pence is still governor) promised $7 million in incentives.
But there are two aspects of Trump’s speech that were rather fishy — the number of jobs he claimed to have saved and the effect of regulations that he suggested had caused Carrier to leave. Let’s dig through the numbers, but first watch the YouTube video below on Donald Trump and Mike Pence's meeting at Carrier last December.

The Facts

Jobs saved
Trump claimed he saved 1,100 jobs. That’s false.
Earlier this year, United Technologies announced that it was sending 2,100 jobs in Indiana to Monterrey, Mexico — 1,400 from the Carrier plant and 700 from a United Technologies Electronics Controls (UTEC) facility. About 300 administrative and engineering jobs at the Carrier plant and 100 similar jobs from UTEC plant would remain in Indiana. Both announcements were made on Feb. 10.
Trump’s deal would keep 800 workers in Indiana, or about 38 percent of the total who were due to leave the state, according to a spokesman for United Technologies. These jobs were focused on making gas furnaces. About 600 jobs — focused on making fan coils — will still go to Mexico. Meanwhile, the 700 UTEC workers will also lose their jobs to Mexico, though workers at the plant — which makes microprocessor-based controls for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration units — had gotten their hopes up after Trump’s announcement that he had struck a deal with United Technologies.
(Update, Dec. 6: Union officials say the number of jobs saved shrank to 730, once the official paperwork was submitted. The number of fan coil jobs going to Mexico is 553. Counting the UTEC jobs going to Mexico, Trump saved 37 percent of the jobs.)
(Update, Dec. 8: Greg Hayes, chief executive of United Technologies, told CNN that even more jobs eventually would be lost through automation. “We’re going to…automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive,” he said. “What that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.”)
In claiming 1,100 jobs, Trump is including 300 jobs that never were going to Mexico in the first place. He also is conveniently forgetting about the 700 jobs from UTEC, though both announcements were made at the same time. Trump tweeted Sunday that he will slap a 35 percent tariff on any company that ships jobs to another country, so it’s unclear whether United Technologies snookered Trump or Trump snookered United Technologies.

Read the entire article from the Washington Post right here!