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SAN FRANCISCO — The Japanese business mogul Masayoshi Son pledged to President-elect Donald J. Trump nearly two weeks ago that he would invest in the United States and create about 50,000 jobs.
On Monday, Mr. Son’s conglomerate, SoftBank, took what it described as the first step in fulfilling that commitment.
By leading a $1.2 billion investment in OneWeb, which makes satellites for internet access, SoftBank said it was continuing to invest in new technology and supporting job creation in the United States. In their announcement, SoftBank and OneWeb said the investment would create nearly 3,000 jobs in the United States over four years.
“Earlier this month, I met with President-elect Trump and shared my commitment to investing and creating jobs in the U.S.,” Mr. Son said in a statement. “America has always been at the forefront of innovation and technological development, and we are thrilled to be playing a part in continuing to drive that growth as we work to create a truly globally connected ecosystem.”
Mr. Son, whose technology and telecommunications empire has made him one of Japan’s wealthiest men, has positioned himself as a prospective partner of the coming Trump administration by promising to help spur job growth.
At a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan this month, Mr. Son pledged to invest $50 billion in the United States, which, by his reckoning, would create about 50,000 jobs. Mr. Trump has cited the pledge as a sign that he could persuade the private sector to lead improvements in the national economy.
originally posted by: Christosterone
I have a unique understanding of Japanese culture and can tell you that this is exquisitely rare for such a "deal" would be struck with a foreign[American] president-elect such as this…
It is true no Japanese mogul would have ever met with President-elect Obama out of deference to George W Bush whose father had been a great warrior...
originally posted by: DeadMoonJester
originally posted by: Christosterone
I have a unique understanding of Japanese culture and can tell you that this is exquisitely rare for such a "deal" would be struck with a foreign[American] president-elect such as this…
It is true no Japanese mogul would have ever met with President-elect Obama out of deference to George W Bush whose father had been a great warrior...
This is the part I'm flabbergasted by.. George Bush senior was a great warrior? I'm not an American but I was under the impression that he was actually criticized for not being tough enough and even called a sissy by some of his critics?
Gotta love the honour of Japanese people though..
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, George HW Bush decided to join the US. Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.
After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.
He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as the photographic officer in September 1943. The following year, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, where his lanky physique earned him the nickname "Skin".
During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant on August 1, 1944, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima. His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.
During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire. Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.
With his engine ablaze, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft; the other man's parachute did not open.
Bush waited for four hours in an inflated raft, while several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine USS Finback.
For the next month he remained on Finback, and participated in the rescue of other pilots. Several of those shot down during the attack were executed and eaten by their captors.
George Bush in his Grumman TBM Avenger on the carrier USS San Jacinto in 1944 Bush subsequently returned to San Jacinto in November 1944 and participated in operations in the Philippines until his squadron was replaced and sent home to the United States.
Through 1944, he flew 58 combat missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to San Jacinto.
originally posted by: Christosterone
originally posted by: DeadMoonJester
originally posted by: Christosterone
I have a unique understanding of Japanese culture and can tell you that this is exquisitely rare for such a "deal" would be struck with a foreign[American] president-elect such as this…
It is true no Japanese mogul would have ever met with President-elect Obama out of deference to George W Bush whose father had been a great warrior...
This is the part I'm flabbergasted by.. George Bush senior was a great warrior? I'm not an American but I was under the impression that he was actually criticized for not being tough enough and even called a sissy by some of his critics?
Gotta love the honour of Japanese people though..
Umm...HW was an excellent aviator..
From wikipedia(not always a fan but am tired and I have a lot of gifts to wrap tomorrow)
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, George HW Bush decided to join the US. Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.
After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.
He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as the photographic officer in September 1943. The following year, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, where his lanky physique earned him the nickname "Skin".
During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant on August 1, 1944, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima. His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.
During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire. Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.
With his engine ablaze, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft; the other man's parachute did not open.
Bush waited for four hours in an inflated raft, while several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine USS Finback.
For the next month he remained on Finback, and participated in the rescue of other pilots. Several of those shot down during the attack were executed and eaten by their captors.
George Bush in his Grumman TBM Avenger on the carrier USS San Jacinto in 1944 Bush subsequently returned to San Jacinto in November 1944 and participated in operations in the Philippines until his squadron was replaced and sent home to the United States.
Through 1944, he flew 58 combat missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to San Jacinto.
If that is not a description of a warrior then I cannot help you…
The Japanese correctly identified George Herbert Walker Bush as a mighty warrior and always treated him with the utmost of respect befitting a warrior of such stature…
-Chris
originally posted by: Snarl
50,000 U.S. Jobs
multiply by 10
500,000 U.S. Jobs
multiply by 10
5,000,000 U.S. Jobs
multiply by 10
50,000,000 U.S. Jobs
We're now at half the unemployment 'problem' in Murica.
I apologize for being negative in your thread.
An ethos constructed largely by the MacArthur constitution which saw new deal era egalitarianism combined with the morality of the Judeo-Christian ethos brought to imperial Japan and lead to Japan rising to the top of the world's economic ladder in a heretonow unprecedented fashion…
Gingrich's definition of Trumpism is essentially a third attempt – after Ronald Reagan in 1980 and himself in 1994 – by conservatives to break the country cleanly away from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" big-government mindset. He sees it as a push to decentralize the many functions and services that have been guided by elites in Washington and return power and decision-making to the populace outside of the nation's capital. What makes such profound change possible this time? Trump is as disruptive as President Andrew Jackson, as energetic as President Theodore Roosevelt and as effective a salesman as P.T. Barnum, Gingrich says.
In the United States, meanwhile, the New Deal drive to greater equality shifted into reverse in the 1970s and has been speeding backwards ever since. Americans have paid for that reversal. In 2004, according to U.N. data, the people of the United States ranked 30th in global life expectancy. The Japanese ranked first.