Posted on 06/13/2011 11:50:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
DURHAM, N.C. — President Barack Obama promoted job creation in politically important North Carolina Monday, trying to assure Americans he's focused on their No. 1 concern — and his greatest political weakness — as his potential GOP presidential opponents prepared to target his economic policies in their first major debate.
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"I am optimistic about our future," the president said, even while acknowledging that "we can't be complacent."
Obama announced details of a program to train 10,000 new American engineers every year, saying private companies will join the government to promote education in science, technology, engineering and math. They'll offer incentives to students to finish their degrees and help universities pay for their engineering programs.
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News to Barry...there are no Engineering jobs!!! Everything is going overseas you moron...
This guy is soooo out of touch.
And that's why unemployment moved from 7% to 9.1%.
All someone from North Carolina has to do is watch him sic the NLRB on Boeing for wanting to put jobs via a 787 assembly line in South Carolina to see how he will treat anyone who wants to move jobs there and away from his union masters.
Until the government backs down and gets the heck out of the way, there will be no improvement in the job situation. The government is the problem, not the solution.
Remind to not fly in a plane. Or cross any bridges.
Prob should get off the power grid, too.
What are they gonna engineer? Maybe train engineers on all the high speed trains to nowhere, that Obama is pushing.
10,000 engineering jobs and 100 french fry cooks at McDonalds. Yeah that’s the ticket.
As always, Obama has everything backwards. If there are good engineering jobs, you will get new American engineers without government involvement.
Why not just create jobs for the 10,000 unemployed engineers we got already?
10,000 New Engineers?
An engineering degree would making flipping burgers at McDonald’s in the Obama Economy much easier, doncha think?
That's why thousands of NASA workers have been given the boot.
Environmentalism is the new NASA -- modeling anyone?
They probably don’t meet the demographics he’s planning to help (age, race, citizenship, sexual orientation).
This sucks. My child is a math/engineering/science major. Maybe she can be a pharmacist instead. We’re going to need a lot of blue and red pill dispensers anyway since there will be no real health care.
Our family has four generations of engineers too. Sad.
We have thought a lot about geological engineering. These guys seem to be in demand still as many are in their 50’s. Who knows.
This idiot does not realize that this company has over half its ops in China!
Barry is apparently operating under the illusion that one can train to become an engineer within a year.
It ain’t the International Bartending Academy, Barry.
That, and engineers aren't "trained".
Not like you wake up one day and say "This whole burger-flipping thing just isn't working out. I think I'll go learn solid state physics."
Not to say that it can't be done. People do it all the time. But, not just anyone can do it, IMHO.
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