That's a thought.
Posted on 04/26/2008 10:08:36 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
It's not a new message from the Arizona senator, who follows an unpredictable political muse but typically favors smaller government and less regulation. Yet the context was important. Standing outside the Ohio factory Tuesday, in a state where Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton pandered to protectionists, McCain actually stood up for the North American Free Trade Agreement and free trade. The lost factory jobs aren't coming back, McCain said, and rather than waging a futile fight against globalization, Washington should do a better job training workers for careers in the new economy.
The next day he visited Inez, Ky., where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line and almost half of the adults never made it through high school. President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty in Inez, but McCain was there to withdraw the troops. "Government can't create good and lasting jobs outside of government," he said, adding that it should focus on encouraging businesses to create opportunities for the poor and reduce regulatory barriers to improving education.
In fairness, McCain tailored some of his pitches to please the crowds. For example, his message drifted into government-will-take-care-of-you territory when his tour reached New Orleans, where he condemned the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Democrats responded by noting that McCain had voted against $28 billion in emergency aid to the region.) And his deregulatory stance rang hollow at times, such as when he argued in Kentucky that improving education and training for women was a better response to employment discrimination than making it more feasible for victims to sue -- as if an employer's bias could be overcome by making female workers even more qualified.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
on the contrary, that's a very rational and predictable employer response. In fact, generations of ethnic mothers have counted on it in urging their offspring to "study harder. " It seems that it still works.
The lost factory jobs aren’t coming back, McCain said, and rather than waging a futile fight against globalization, Washington should do a better job training workers for careers picking lettuce for $50 per hour.
That's a thought.
I do agree with McCain on his point concerning the need to retrain displaced workers for needed jobs, but I disagree on his contention that Washington, aka Tax payer, should be responsible for that re-training.
I have changed careers three times due to a US industry disappearing from our economy. All three times I re-enrolled in either a technical school or a University to gain the needed skills, degree, and or knowledge to make myself marketable. This was done without Washington's interference.
The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA. Hernandez believes all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." He believes there should be no border at all between Mexico and the USA, ever.
And this is the man McCain chose for his "Hispanic Outreach Director." In the past week McCain was asked about this choice, and he said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions. If so, McCain is supporting invasion and reconquista.
Then I read our Constitution, Article 4 Section 4, where it says the federal government MUST protect the states from invasion, and I can only conclude one thing: John McCain is our new Benedict Arnold.
"In his own words: McCain’s radical Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez on youtube"
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/27/in-his-own-words-mccains-hispanic-outreach-director-preaches-open-borders/
I can’t stand this jerk McPain and neither can I stand osama hussein or the hildebeast. Sheesh! If there’s a space to write in on the ballot, I’m voting for myself.
>The lost factory jobs aren’t coming back, McCain said, and rather than waging a futile fight against globalization, Washington should do a better job training workers for careers in the new economy.<
Whew! Groan and gasp! If that isn’t a loud announcement, folks, I’ve never heard one before! Not a foot soldier for Reagan after all, but a foot soldier for the new world order for George Walker Bush and Company, McCain will steal the honors of sinking this great ship of state for himself! You could tell by that smile he had pasted on his face, but now you’ve heard it from his liberal lips!
And rather than the private sector, WASHINGTON should do the training? Aauuugh!
No, “contrarian” is a way to describe a person who is against everything you are for, such as Bush wants authority to tap terrorist phone calls and McCain is again it. Take a position and McCain is against it, goes contrary to whatever is right and reasonable. MSM loves him for it.
“I do agree with McCain on his point concerning the need to retrain displaced workers for needed jobs,”
Free trade, open borders politicians have been babbling about retraining workers for almost twenty years now (before that, they babbled about increasing productivity to save jobs).
Do we ever get any reports on how many workers have been successfully retrained for all those needed jobs? Or is the retraining limited to the speeches of polilticians?
If Hernandez actually CHOSE to apply for Mexican citizenship as an adult, I believe he could lose his American citizenship. However, I think the government doesn’t like to go forward on this because there have been many patriotic Americans who have also applied for citizenship elsewhere (Israel comes to mind) for dual citizenship. But I do believe that there are a few things that can cause one to be in a position to lose his American citizenship and one of these is to APPLY for citizenship elsewhere (not just be granted it through marriage or birth, etc.).
Damn those globalist corporations.
“Government can’t create good and lasting jobs outside of government,” he said, adding that it should focus on encouraging businesses to create opportunities for the poor and reduce regulatory barriers to improving education.”
No they can’t, but government can and has passed legislation and entered trade agreements guaranteed to destroy jobs and send entire industries to the world’s cheapest labor.
“reduce regulatory barriers to improving education.”
Any specifics on that one?
LAT: "Got a low-paying nowhere job, ladies? Don't bother going to school or acquiring a skill: sue your employer for discrimination! But hurry -- the evil Scotus has just ruled that you only get six months -- a measly 180 days -- after suffering the abuse in a sexist, male-dominated heteronormative society to make the claim."
McLaim has the stink of boot licker on him..
Little doubt he licked boots in Vietnam too..
He has all the values of a Vampire.. a Political Vampire..
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