Link. Ross Perot once famously said, "Big sucking sound," but in a different context.
I looked it up, what Perot said, "Giant sucking sound," not big. There's a Wiki page.
Quoting Wikipedia:
In the second 1992 Presidential Debate, Ross Perot argued:
We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.
... when [Mexico's] jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals.[1]Perot ultimately lost the election, and the winner, Bill Clinton, supported NAFTA, which went into effect on January 1, 1994.
Arguably, plant mobility overseas has been supplanted by labor mobility, from overseas or cross-border to here. Trump promised deportations. Musk promised an H-1B "war."
Citizen Laborers, in large numbers among non-union labor, voted for Trump.
Aside from distant and yesterday's history, AP reports:
Zuckerberg once seemed a foe of the former president, banning him from Facebook and Instagram after a mob of Trump’s supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But lately, he’s been endearing himself to Trump as one of a number of tech executives who have been seeking to improve their relationships with the new president.
Meta declined to comment Tuesday.
In a between-paragraph thing, AP notes another of its stories -
As Biden warns of an ‘oligarchy,’ Trump will be flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration
where checking out the story it is saying -
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, took an unprecedented, hands-on role in the final stretch of Trump’s campaign, spending some $200 million through a super PAC. Musk has a new role reshaping government in the upcoming administration and will be joined on the dais by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Both men’s companies have enormous contracts with the federal government.
Rounding out the trio is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently changed his company’s priorities to align with Trump’s and has cozied up to the president-elect less than six months after Trump threatened to imprison him.
The three men are worth nearly $1 trillion combined and will be joined at the inauguration by the chief executive officers of OpenAI and the social media platform TikTok, which is scheduled to be shut down in the U.S. over the weekend under a new law that Trump opposes.
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On the dining room table, a bookmark from The Nation, an outlet with the slogan, "Truth to Power," had that particular bookmark printed having an image of Franklin Roosevelt and a quote from him -
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
And Roosevelt, who was s polio sufferer, might think little of the Kennedy health czar nominee, for we have effective polio vaccines now, along with anti-vaxxer idiot denialists, at the current time where Franklin, if alive, would be expected to opt for the pro-vaccine faction and think the Kennedy man is a total worthless blithering idiot. And a danger if given any power.
Perhaps Roosevelt might not think so, some can doubt for he's not around to ask for likelihood confirmation..
But we can rationally extrapolate.
Sheldon Adelson's first trip to Israel, he put his father's shoes on since his father died before being able to set foot on Israeli controlled soil. Widow Adelson, now atop the gambling empire, and having that basketball team while the nation allows sports betting, is also a pro-Israel maven who Trump gave, first term, the Presidential medal Biden gave to Hillary and Soros, and widow Adelson gave the campain a bundle while liking a Greater Israel policy where the occupied Palestinian land would be annexed. Zuck, we know him, while readers can google the other co-sponsoring billionaires if they care to know detail.
I've seen enough already