Smerconish on Carrier Deal: ‘You Can’t Give Mouth-to-Mouth to One Plant At a Time’

"Well, John, I think to the point of the 'Journal,' it’s not a free market solution. This is a case of government having intervened to save 1,000 jobs. I’m elated for those 1,000 people who would otherwise have lost employment. But it’s no strategy to save the economy because you can’t give mouth-to-mouth one plant at a time and call that a strategy. What it does do is perhaps provide some momentum and a context and a feeling as this administration is coming in that it will be all about promoting business and cutting deals. But, you also have to wonder whether there are companies out there now that will seek to gain leverage over the federal government by threatening to move to Mexico unless they’re given the 'Carrier treatment.'"