Push the reset button. 1861
Posted on 12/16/2009 5:52:34 AM PST by reaganaut1
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The [Republican] message [should be], "Put men back to work." Seventy-five percent of employees thrown out of work in the current recession have been men. We're about to pass the point where there are more women than men in the workforce. Obviously this idea is going to have a constituency. But it's not just men who will respond. There are millions of women out there who would like to see their men back working again as well.
The reason men are out of work has nothing to do with feminism or "feminazis" or any of that stuff. The problem is we don't build anything in this country anymore. The reason is the twin towers of bureaucracy and environmentalism. The main products of our economy are now lawsuits and environmental impact statements. This creates a lot of jobs, but they're all for pencil-pushing bureaucrats -- male or female -- who sit around telling other people what they can't do. Just the other day at a rally at a Democratic sponsored job rally in California, somebody got up and complained, "I wanted to put solar panels on my house and found the first thing I have to do is fill out 400 pages of government forms." Solar energy isn't even off the ground yet and already it's mired in bureaucracy.
As David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy in Princeton, N.J., puts it, "We don't make anything in this country anymore." Crane should know. He's been trying to get a license to build the first new nuclear reactor in this country in 30 years. Already he's discovered that America's nuclear industry -- which led the world into this technology -- has now vanished. Remember Westinghouse? It's now a Japanese company. GE doesn't do anything in nuclear anymore without partnering with Hitachi.
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I think he's absolutely right, although "twin towers" is a goofy way to put it.
I worked for Babcock & Wilcox who, I believe , had the last 2 orders for nuclear power plants. Both were cancelled. Thank you, Jimmy Carter (and Nixon who gave us the EPA if my memory serves me). Back then, I remember the big 4 were Westinghousw, B&W, Combustion Engineering, and General Atomic...
Just abolish every county’s, state’s and HOA’s regulations against manufacturing on one’s own property, and men will get back to work. Otherwise, prepare for the big default. Despots cannot continue to rule without revenues, and the debts-for-imports rackets are heading toward a wall.
The [Republican] message [should be], "Put men back to work." Seventy-five percent of employees thrown out of work in the current recession have been men. We're about to pass the point where there are more women than men in the workforce. Obviously this idea is going to have a constituency.
Corporate lobbyists have not identified out-of-work men as a viable constituency for the GOP.
Men are merely consumers who are expected to borrow and consume more after they've been downsized and outsourced.
And BTW, there are man-haters running interference against new competition in every locale for their families in local, monopolizing business and government.
Pushing papers creates nothing except more restrictions.
Even a hamburger joint is at least helping turn that cow into a sandwich. A clothing store is at least putting a suit on someone.
Now, if we were only making the suits.
Someone will get rich some day after figuring out how to bring competitive manufacturing/production of consumer goods back to the USA.
There are enough jobs in natural gas, coal, and offshore drilling + the associated industries to win back our entire economy, but the paper pushers say "no."
And therein is their real danger.
Bureaucracy and red tape killed the addition of a second reactor near me that would have created several thousand jobs over 10 years, plus adding megawatts of badly needed electricity for Missouri.
If we don’t expand energy, we will crumble economically.
We don’t make anything in America. Our economy has moved offshore and we are just sales agents for Red China.
The collapse of Rome is a very good description of what is happening to America. Not because of the will of the people will we fail. Failure will happen because of the will of the government.
“Someone will get rich some day after figuring out how to bring competitive manufacturing/production of consumer goods back to the USA....”
Easy answer. Hard to get there. Need to deregulate, detax, and defederalize....
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
American autarchy, a notion worth considering.
Americans need to accept the reality that we have to be cost-competitive. Outrageous labor costs (which includes OSHA protection, etc., in additionto wages) compared to China is another problem.
He's right about the waste of using natural gas as a fuel, rather than a chemical feedstock. It sickens me how much we are throwing away.
Push the reset button.
1776
As Robert Reich said in that congressional hearing, we can’t have a stimulus which would mainly give jobs to “white male construction workers”. Not that he has anything against such workers, just that we can’t see them as benefiting from government programs.
I will get reamed for this but this country would be a lot better if mothers stayed at home and raised their kids while the fathers worked. Maybe more men would have jobs.
Push the reset button. 1861
In 2008, there were 29.6 million businesses in the United States, according to Office of Advocacy estimates. Census data show that there were 6.0 million firms with employees in 2006 and 21.7 million without employees in 2007 ( the latest available data). Small firms with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.9 percent of the 29.6 million businesses (including both employers and nonemployers), as the most recent data show there were about 18,000 large businesses in 2006."
Small business employs just over half of the country’s "private sector" workforce:
Hires 40 percent of high tech workers, such as scientists, engineers and computer workers
Include 52 percent home-based businesses and two percent franchises
Represent 97.3 percent of all the exporters of goods
Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms
Generate a majority of the innovations that come from United States companies
Small firms create a majority of the net new jobs, their share of employment remains steady since some firms grow into large firms as they create new jobs. Small firms’ share of part-time workers (21 percent) is similar to large firms’ share (18 percent).
Updated September 2009 ( (More sba.gov stats)
When you see increases of one group over the other..[2005] Whites made up 76% of the American population. White Americans (non-Hispanic Whites together with White Hispanics) are projected to remain the majority, percentage said decreasing to 73% of the total population by 2050. So White Americans (males) in numbers are apt to be show larger numbers when downward turns (in this case employment etc) comes into "play". White men in America, on average, still get paid more than women and minorities for doing the same work ; and by other accounts about 20 to 25 percent more. Minorities typically suffer more from unemployment during down economic times.
You had white women employment booming in the 1980's, leveling off; then black women employment rising in the 90's but not to the level of the working white female in the 80's.
But life is difficult when anyone has lost their job, just the numbers tossed around in headline commentary often breed hysterial-one group vs the other.
Americans want products made by well paid workers toiling in clean, environmentally pure factories - they just aren’t willing to pay for them.
The reason men are out of work has nothing to do with feminism or “feminazis” or any of that stuff.
Not so fast! Just like the promotion lists where they put all the candidates in columns - black - hispanic - native american - female and then take the top 2 from each category. They do the same when laying people off. If a male and a female are equally talented the female is always promoted and the male always layed off first. So much for equal.
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