12/28/2022 0 Comments White pages michigan macomb county![]() The pawn shop owner did not dwell on the handsome tax sweeteners offered to Carrier, or to the US state department estimate that Keystone will create only 35 long-term jobs. I believe in the pipeline I also believe in global warming but you can’t have everything Wallace Kotharz “I believe in the pipeline I also believe in global warming but you can’t have everything,” he said. He referred to the much-vaunted deal to stop the Carrier air-conditioner plant moving from Indianapolis to Mexico, and to Keystone which he said would create 28,000 new jobs. Kotharz has bought the line from Trump that he will be the “greatest president for jobs that God ever created”. It’s given him a vantage point on the decline of manufacturing in the rust belt that is etched into the faces of his customers who bring him jewelry, watches, laptops and dolls in their desperation to make ends meet. Wallace Kotharz, 74, has run Gold-n-Stones, a pawnshop in Mount Clemens that he calls a “poor man’s bank”, for the past 15 years. “I’ve had an application in with the Keystone pipeline for a mechanic’s job for two years, but every time they came close to hiring me Obama would say the project was dead.” So when Trump announced that he was reviving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, incurring the wrath of climate change activists and Native Americans, Redmond was overjoyed. He has been out of work for the past two years and says he is so desperate for a job he would “sweep floors for $10 an hour if I had to”. Wallace Kotharz’s pawn shop has given him a vantage point on the decline of manufacturing in the rust belt. If it don’t put a dime in my pocket, I don’t worry about it.” “Papers? I’ve no idea what they are talking about – I don’t see them. Redmond was unaware of the critical coverage that has saturated newspaper front pages and cable news reports since inauguration day. Niel Redmond, 54, a mechanic who in 2012 voted for Barack Obama but this time went for Trump, said: “I think he’s doing a phenomenal job.” It is as if all the raging controversy of the week had somehow washed off him on the 600-mile journey from Washington to Michigan, leaving a cleansed and beatific Trump committed to creating jobs and putting America first. Then there is how residents of Macomb County, an overwhelmingly white working-class suburb of Detroit, see their new commander-in-chief. On the one hand, there is Trump as seen through the lens of the coastal mainstream media that has called him out with historic bluntness, epitomized by the lead story of the New York Times: Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote. ![]() “I’m 100% for Trump,” the pawn shop owner said.Įven for a country as accustomed to division as the United States, the split perception of Trump’s first week in office could not be more worlds apart. “I absolutely love him,” the window cleaner said. “He’s awesome, he’s great,” said the car worker. ![]() “Thank the Lord for Donald Trump!” exclaimed the waitress in Angelo’s diner when asked how she thought he was doing. Tell that to the people of Macomb County in Michigan. ![]()
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