"I had the view for 15 years I could play professional football. "That doesn't mean they're right," Cohn said. Severl times Cohn just asked the president, "Why do you have these views?" For the same dollars or equal ollars, they're going to choose something else." People don't want to go into coal mines and get black lung. Which one would you do for the same pay?"Ĭohn added, "People don't want to stand in front of a 2,000 degree blast furnace. "See, the biggest leavers of jobs-people leaving voluntarily-was from manufacturing."Ĭohn tried to explain: "I can sit in a nice office with air conditioning and a desk, or stand on my feet eight hours a day.
President, can I show this to you?" Cohn fanned out the pages of data in front of the president. He realized he was being an asshole by rubbing it in because each month was basically the same, but he didn't care. “Cohn assembled every piece of economic data available to show that American workers did not aspire to work in assembly factories.Įach month Cohn brought Trump the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, called JOLTS, conducted y the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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