Where does G.E. have most of it’s products made? One guess, and it aint here in the U.S.
“Develop training partnerships with community colleges and vocational schools to help fill what they said were more than 2 million job openings in advanced manufacturing in the United States.”
This makes NO sense. We have about a 9% unemployment rate yet cant find qualified people to take 2 million “advanced manufacturing” jobs. Furthermore these jobs are SO advanced you need community college level training to be qualified? The whole thing is ridiculous.
1) Develop training partnerships with community colleges and vocational schools to help fill what they said were more than 2 million job openings in advanced manufacturing in the United States. (Note: More pork barrel spending. This program is nothing new. It's already in existence. Note the Times use of “what they said were more than 2 million job openings.” I asked the National Association of Manufacturers to verify the 2 million job openings. They could not. It’s an estimate based on retirements over ten years, not jobs right now.)
2) Increase travel and tourism industry jobs by making it easier for foreigners to get visas to visit the United States. (Note: More illegal immigration.)
3) Streamline the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects. (Note: More high-speed trains and union transport jobs. This one’s for Richard Trumka.)
4) Make it easier for companies to obtain Small Business Administration funding. (Note: More too-big-to-fail loans)
5) Encourage retrofitting of commercial buildings to be more energy-efficient, creating additional construction jobs. (Note: More green jobs.)
1. This is just paying to get people to go to school so they get off the job-seeker rolls and reduce the top-line unemployment figure. There is no, nor will there ever be, job training available at community colleges that high-tech manufacturing employers require. This is specialized training that must be provided by the employer.
2. Tourism is the last-ditch economic activity of every moribund thrid-world economy, and Ireland. We're suck, but we don't suck that bad.
3. Every time this crew says "streamline" or "reform", they just make things worse. The best you can hope for is that they will process your denial faster, so you can stop wasting your time on expansion plans.
4. Reward businesses tha can't make it without a government handout, and tax successful businesses to pay for their own subsidized competition. Sounds like a winner to me!
5. Green Jobs is nothing but a Socialist community-organizer slush fund. No actual jobs (or greening) is produced.
No, I have been trying for 3 years to get a Thai Girl here to see America. She has been though 3 interviews at the US Embassy ($135) each, and been denied a tourist visa each time. So I am off to Thailand again, spending money there instead of adding to our economy.
Looks like someone decided to use Mussolini’s model of corporate fascism as the vehicle for hope and change. Maybe we can call our leader “Il Douche.”
If we need more revenue, start raising taxes on the half of people in the US who currently pay 0 federal tax instead.
Don’t forget that GE was behind the planned obsolescence of normal light bulbs to be replaced by the dangerous curly-cue bulbs that cost more, use more electricity to get the same amount of light and are dangerous to dispose of. Blame GE for the stupid CFC light bulbs too.
This is exactly the scenario Rand forsaw in Atlas Shrugged. She was so spot on it’s scary.