America's backbone...

[WhiskeyGirl]

What about all the white and pink collar jobs that have disappeared overseas during the past 15-20 years?  Any relief for those folks from the new administration?  Anyone care about all the jobs for office people that no longer exist in the US?

"We need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs and provide relief to families that are watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear," he said.

Among the high priorities for the transition team is to work on policy options to help the ailing automotive industry, he said. "The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing and a critical part of our attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."

http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=941496

Office workers may not be union, but many supported families and and themselves with those jobs.

How many age 40 plus people will be getting those factory or construction jobs?  How many roads does a country need?  Roads and bridges to no where?

At one time, the manufacturing sector was alive with jobs.  American manufacturing made a wide variety of products.  It seems like autos are the only thing left, and many of the components are imported, imho.

[Ree]

What about all the white and pink collar jobs that have disappeared overseas during the past 15-20 years?  Any relief for those folks from the new administration?  Anyone care about all the jobs for office people that no longer exist in the US?

"We need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs and provide relief to families that are watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear," he said.

Among the high priorities for the transition team is to work on policy options to help the ailing automotive industry, he said. "The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing and a critical part of our attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."

http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=941496

Office workers may not be union, but many supported families and and themselves with those jobs.

How many age 40 plus people will be getting those factory or construction jobs?  How many roads does a country need?  Roads and bridges to no where?

At one time, the manufacturing sector was alive with jobs.  American manufacturing made a wide variety of products.  It seems like autos are the only thing left, and many of the components are imported, imho.

If he really wants to help the auto industry as well as the rest of the economy, he should teach those at GM and Ford to make a quality product, stand behind it when quality is what it should have been and not to make deals with the unions that put them out of business.  It also wouldn't hurt to reduce taxes on businesses so they wouldn't want to move so many jobs overseas.  Korea exports larger and larger numbers of vehicles to the US, but there are still extremely high tariffs on American made cars in Korea.  I'm not sure exactly what it is now, but when we left in the mid-ninties, it essentially doubled the price of a new car.