but manufacturing jobs are not come canning back in large numbers. we ve not even had the number we had before the great recession in 2007. the idea was 30 years of a kind of selling out the american work wither, themes i think you ve talked about, that other people on the left fobbed about that he railed against naftdau. nafta. he quote on quote saves the carrier jobs. he slaps on tariffs, which can have wiped out the harley davidson plant. he has not delivered on the promise. and used to pay much better than service jobs and the reason is they were unionides. in right-to-work jobs, that s what they re called.
go to education and job training and basic research. it s not helpful to wisconsin. i think they re better without foxconn and the subsidy. the company takes the subsidies and they re hinting they want the subsidies. but manufacturing jobs are not come canning back in large numbers. we ve not even had the number we had before the great recession in 2007. the idea was 30 years of a kind of selling out the american work wither, themes i think you ve talked about, that other people on the left fobbed about that he railed against naftdau. nafta. he quote on quote saves the carrier jobs.
automation. carrier jobs, gone. harley davidson jobs, they re closing it down because of the tpp and trump pulling out of that. this is something the president often talks about in an economic context when he s talking about issues of race and immigration. let me play a little bit from his state of the union address from a few days ago. after years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages. african-american and hispanic unemployment have both reached the lowest levels ever recorded. howe i ll correct myself there. speaking at the retreat in west virginia earlier, reiterating some of what he said in the state of the union. he went on to express some disappointment that democratic members of the house and senate didn t stand, particularly african-american members of the house and senate didn t stand when he was talking about black unemployment. what do you make of what he said about the black unemployment rate? it s pure hipo ochlhypocrisy.
keep the factory open and save jobs headed for mexico. they re not going to leave this country. and the workers are going to keep their jobs. these companies aren t going to be leaving anymore. they aren t going to be taking people s hearts out. i know one man who didn t believe him. since then more than 500 carrier jobs have gone to the company s plant in mexico where workers make about three bucks an hour, according to union officials. in a washington post editorial, the former union leader who represented these workers writes, we feel betrayed. trump continues to lie about his commitment to saving jobs at carrier or anywhere else and workers are taking note. that man joins me now, chuck jones, former president of the local 1999. chuck, the president took aim at you specifically a year ago. you ve lived through this year, you ve seen what happened at carrier and other companies. what s your reaction to what the president promised last night? well, i think, like anything els
look at the stock market, investor confidence, surm confidence. governor, our economy is finally what has he done? starting to move in the right direction. what bill has he passed? not one. he went to michigan. your home state. and he has already started to make some fantastic progress to reduce burden some regulations to that hurt the auto industry. that s why ford decided to move jobs to mexico. carrier jobs continue to move. harley davidson started to move. jobs right there in indianapolis. now you guys are getting started. governor, jason miller, thank you very much. fascinating to see how anthony scaramucci handles all of this. chris? police are piecing together a deadly human trafficking operation, dozens of people, maybe as many as 100 trapped in the back of a semi truck.