Fool me a hundred times -- God Dammit man, can't you give a brother a break?!

Strike 8

Jobs, jobs, jobs. The Carrier deal.

Fooled again, really?

According to Forbes,

Former Indiana lieutenant governor John Mutz, of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, told Politico the change was fear on the part of Carrier's parent, United Technologies, that Trump would interfere with part of the $6.7 billion in federal contracts it held."

Let me turn it up for you. That's $6,700,000,000 in federal largess, just slightly over 1% of the 2017 insanely obscene defense budget of $618,000,000,000.

Forbes continues, "The quid for the pro quo of saved jobs was $7 million in tax breaks from Indiana to be paid out over ten years. However, the number should have made a lot of reporters suspicious.

Let's break it out:

• The breaks come down to $700,000 per year.

• Divided by 800 workers, it's $875 per worker per year.

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