Posted on 09/06/2009 5:51:22 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama has named Ron Bloom, an influential figure in the national labor movement before joining the administration's auto task force earlier this year, as his senior counselor for manufacturing policy.
In that role, Bloom will help Obama try to rebuild a U.S. manufacturing sector that has lost millions of jobs in recent years, the White House announced Sunday. Obama is expected to discuss Bloom's new position Monday when he speaks to the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati.
"Last week we learned that our manufacturing sector expanded for the first time in 18 months and had the highest monthly output in two years," Obama said in the statement announcing Bloom's new role. "It's a sign that we're on the right track to economic recovery, but that we still have a long way to go."
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whoa...never saw that one comin’ did we?
BAAWWAAAHHHHHH....let the research begin! Just what we need a UNION THUG “helping” the manufacturing sector.....what a JOKE!
I would not call him a “union thug” just because he comes from Big Labor. He might be a thugmaster.
***Mr. Bloom served as a research and negotiating specialist for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).***
http://www.revenue.state.pa.us/tax_reform/cwp/view.asp?A=321&Q=223212
Just great. A union guy advising on how to bring manufacturing jobs back to this country when UNIONS are one of the causes of the destruction of manufacturing jobs in this country.
Let’s see:
Dems = Commies = Unions = Thugs = Organized Crime = will bring back manufacturing jobs to this country??
One more indication that the JOBLESS RECOVERY will continue!
That’s rich. A service specialist is going to have input on manufacturing...
ok abc. cbs AND nbc
I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU lol
Oh man another ONE who never ran a company or manufactured anything.. What a loser.
It's up to anyone who loves his country to do it.
He’s a thug ~ SEIU has demonstrated time and again that’s all they have on hand.
Sure he has manufactured something.....VOTES.
>>***Mr. Bloom served as a research and negotiating specialist for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).***
I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt because in every factory I’ve ever worked (I worked as an Industrial Electrician for 15 years in three different factories), the rank and file union members (and front-line supervision) usually understood manufacturing processes better than the corporate managers.
But since he comes from a non-manufacturing union, there’s no hope that he “gets” it. Even when Obama has a chance to turn a politially-motivated appointment into something that could actually help by choosing someone from a union that makes something and hasn’t destroyed it’s own industry, he makes the wrong choice.
“Sure he has manufactured something.....VOTES.”
Sorry, I stand Corrected!
Is this a new one?
This CZAR crap has to stop now! I never found this title for a American government position when I was in school.
This has to be made up by the bozo whack job you dumb folks elected to make “changes we can believe in”.
President wee wee cannot lead on his own and knows we the people will tar him if he tried.
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