Subj : Re: Is AI ruining social
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 01:26 am

DW>That smells like just propaganda from the media.

RM>> That was on our national news but Mike Powel my Sysop on this BBS
  >> also heard al about it down there.

MP>I didn't just hear it on the news, I saw the President's tweet about it. ;)

Oops, Sorry.. I don't follow tweets unless they get repeated on the news..  B)

RM>> I have a feeling things are not going to go anything like Trump hopes
  >> and expects them to. He won't be in power for enough years to pull
  >> you out of a borderline recession as he tries to take on the world.

MP>It is already costing us some jobs, or at least delaying them.  A tech
  >giant... M$ or Google... has put a multi-billion dollar investment in Ohio
  >on hold due to the tariffs, which is costing Ohio potential jobs.  Another
  >company has put a battery plant in Kentucky on hold for the same reason.
  >It was supposed to bring a bunch of jobs.

Yes, we are seeing the same things here. It's bad enough we lost over
30,000 jobs in one industry last month but now we keep hearing about
business expansions or new ones planning to move here that are being
cancelled, or at least postponed..

RM>> Right.. he's offered us 2 ways out of it. To either move all our
  >> car plants to the USA, and lose 125,000 direct jobs and many times
  >> that support jobs, or join the USA as the 51st state..

MP>Two pretty crappy alternatives.  ;)

I'm not sure you, as an American, should call joining you 'crappy'..  B)

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