[henkster]

McCain told Michigan industrial workers their jobs weren’t coming back. He was crucified in the press. 0bama says the same jobs aren’t coming back and he gets a pass.

Oh, that’s right. 0bama is replacing the U.S. Steel jobs with “green” jobs. That’s right, we’ll take the steelworkers out of the now-closed mills, and give them the poles with the point on the end so they can pick up litter on the highway. It’s a great “green” job.

[chimera]

That's basically what Clinton did at Idaho Lab in the 1990s. Then the mantra was “No NET loss of jobs” at Idaho national lab (sounds like “create OR SAVE 3 million jobs"). So they took Ph.D.-type people who were working on things like advanced nuclear fuels or waste management or the Integral Fast Reactor, gave them the boot, and hired a bunch of high school dropouts and put brooms in their hands and told them to sweep up. But it was no NET loss of jobs, you see (just underemployment).