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Why no lobbyist for creating good jobs in America?
"President Obama believes government has a vital role in creating good jobs in America. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich say American businesses will create good jobs here if their taxes are lowered and regulations eased.
The facts are on the president's side. U.S. corporations are increasingly global and have less and less stake in America. According to the Commerce Department, American global corporations added 2.4 million workers abroad in the first decade of the 21st century while cutting their American workforce by 2.9 million.............
Lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations won't bring good jobs to America. They might lower the costs of production here, but global companies can always find even lower costs somewhere else around the world.
Global corporations - wherever they're based - will create good jobs for Americans only if Americans are productive enough to summon them. Yet a large and growing portion of our workforce isn't equipped to be productive.
We're hobbled by deteriorating schools, unaffordable college tuitions, decaying infrastructure, worsening health (along with rising health care costs) and declining basic R&D. All of this is putting us on a glide path toward even lousier jobs and lower wages.
Yet big American corporations aren't lobbying to fix any of this. They can get what they need globally, and they're designed to make profits rather than create good jobs.
So who represents the American workforce in Washington? Who is lobbying for a national strategy to create more and better jobs here? The answer is no one. Organized labor represents fewer than 7 percent of private-sector workers and has all it can do to protect a dwindling number of union jobs.
Republicans like it this way and for three decades have been trying to convince average working Americans that government is their enemy. Yet corporate America isn't their friend. Without bold government action on behalf of our workforce, good American jobs will continue to disappear."
The facts are on the president's side. U.S. corporations are increasingly global and have less and less stake in America. According to the Commerce Department, American global corporations added 2.4 million workers abroad in the first decade of the 21st century while cutting their American workforce by 2.9 million.............
Lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations won't bring good jobs to America. They might lower the costs of production here, but global companies can always find even lower costs somewhere else around the world.
Global corporations - wherever they're based - will create good jobs for Americans only if Americans are productive enough to summon them. Yet a large and growing portion of our workforce isn't equipped to be productive.
We're hobbled by deteriorating schools, unaffordable college tuitions, decaying infrastructure, worsening health (along with rising health care costs) and declining basic R&D. All of this is putting us on a glide path toward even lousier jobs and lower wages.
Yet big American corporations aren't lobbying to fix any of this. They can get what they need globally, and they're designed to make profits rather than create good jobs.
So who represents the American workforce in Washington? Who is lobbying for a national strategy to create more and better jobs here? The answer is no one. Organized labor represents fewer than 7 percent of private-sector workers and has all it can do to protect a dwindling number of union jobs.
Republicans like it this way and for three decades have been trying to convince average working Americans that government is their enemy. Yet corporate America isn't their friend. Without bold government action on behalf of our workforce, good American jobs will continue to disappear."
Manufacturing is up from what I understand. Obama has been going around trying to turn things around and it has been working I hear? Anyone else hear that?
These loons are not interested in creating jobs! They want to get in bed with ya and tell ya what contraception you should use, how you can have sex and all that. They have climbed right up into the womb of women and think they can dictate their choices.
We better have a separation of church and state cause this is getting messy to say the least. But jobs? I dont think anyone really gives a damn other than getting the one THEY want! The white house! That is the only job anyone is worrying about that I can see!
These loons are not interested in creating jobs! They want to get in bed with ya and tell ya what contraception you should use, how you can have sex and all that. They have climbed right up into the womb of women and think they can dictate their choices.
We better have a separation of church and state cause this is getting messy to say the least. But jobs? I dont think anyone really gives a damn other than getting the one THEY want! The white house! That is the only job anyone is worrying about that I can see!
Hmm lets see, stop unions, send jobs overseas, let corporations elect politicians.
No, I don't see jobs being created either.
Not until we're willing to do slave labor, oops, I mean work like the Chinese.
No, I don't see jobs being created either.
Not until we're willing to do slave labor, oops, I mean work like the Chinese.
Okay, so I am still at a loss as to how government will create good jobs. Anyone care to enlighten me? I really need to try to wrap my head around this, and I am getting nowhere, fast.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/INQB1N0SNT.DTL
op/ed piece by Robert Reich
op/ed piece by Robert Reich
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