Let's look at it this way... IF Obama got his proposed budget passed soon after it was crafted, we would not have seen the resurgence in America's oil and natural gas industries - both of which went on a tear, drilling and hiring by the tens of thousands.
Why not, you may ask?
Obama Budget Would Cut 40 Billion in Fossil-Fuel Credits - Bloomberg
The GOP "jobs agenda" is getting the ******* Democrats out of the way of American enterprise, and letting private capital do what it does best - invest in brick, mortar, nails, and steel. NOT Wall Street.
You said: The GOP "jobs agenda" is getting the ******* Democrats out of the way of American enterprise, and letting private capital do what it does best - invest in brick, mortar, nails, and steel. NOT Wall Street.
Republicans held both houses and the presidency under Bush for nearly 6 years. They used reconciliation 3 times to make sure their agenda was passed and in place.
What was the result of their policies?
According to you, we're still feeling the "result of their policies".
You said: According to you, we're still feeling the "result of their policies".
Millions of jobs moved to China from 2001 to 2008. Over 40,000 factories closed. I would say we are still feeling the result of their policies, wouldn't you?
The Plight of American Manufacturing
Since 2001, the U.S. has lost 42,400 factories --
and its technical edge.
Without a printed circuit board (PCB) industry, for instance, a country cannot expect to have an industrial foundation for high-tech innovation. But the domestic PCB industry shrunk from $11 billion in 2000 to $4 billion in 2008, a period during which the industry was growing globally. U.S. PCB manufacturers accounted for only 8 percent of global production in 2008, down from 26 percent in 2000. China's share of the global PCB market in 2008 was 31.4 percent or $16 billion, four times larger than the U.S. industry. Asia now controls 84 percent of the global production of printed circuit boards, which are used in tens of thousands of different products.
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With the Internet and reliable and proven statistics available, Republicans still manage to stay the most ignorant and uneducated people on earth. You gotta give them props for their consistency.
From the same article:
To the disappointment of the domestic manufacturing community, the Obama administration has yet to devise a strategy aimed at creating the industrial jobs needed in America to generate trillions of dollars of tax revenue.
You done got brotched!
You said:
From the same article:
To the disappointment of the domestic manufacturing community, the Obama administration has yet to devise a strategy aimed at creating the industrial jobs needed in America to generate trillions of dollars of tax revenue.
You done got brotched!
Hilarious. You cherry picked a single sentence. The rest of it goes like this:
There are nascent signs that
the administration is awaking to the need for new economic policies aimed at private-sector industrial investment and the creation of good jobs. President Barack Obama has appointed Ron Bloom, a financial whiz, to be his "senior counselor for manufacturing policy." Bloom, a graduate of Harvard Business School, worked for years in the investment-banking industry before taking a job with the United Steelworkers, using his experience to help restructure companies to assure their survival and their ability to employ American workers. He also worked on the
Obama administration's Task Force on the Automotive Industry, which (at least for now) saved General Motors and Chrysler from extinction. Bloom is piecing together a strategy that will build upon investments being made in the $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at helping the U.S. clean-energy sector.
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And then look at the part leading up to the part you cherry picked.
Some important points from the article you are referencing:
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For American manufacturers, the bad years didn't begin with the banking crisis of 2008. Indeed, the U.S.
manufacturing sector never emerged from the 2001 recession (in other words, Republicans could do nothing. They just sat and watched everything get pissed away)
Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
In 2004, it lost world dominance in high-tech exports
(right in the middle of their 6 year run of controlling the government. Remember, they used reconciliation three ******* times)
"The proximity of research, development, and manufacturing is very important to leading-edge manufacturers," a report from President George W. Bush's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology warned in 2004. The continuing shift of manufacturing to lower-cost regions and especially to China is beginning to pull high-end design and R&D capabilities out of the United States.
(Not surprisingly, the Bush White House did not publicize this report.)
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And you guys have the nerve to blame Obama? After all the GOP **** ups, obstruction and disastrous Republican policies???? Republicans are just awful.
