Senator Reid: 'jobs agenda' next week

[mystieus]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Thursday that the Senate will have a 'jobs agenda' out next week following President Obama's call in his State of the Union speech to pass a jobs bill.

[endless october]

1. manufacturing in America is key.

it's essential to have a strong middle class.

[Berry Cool]

2. Manufacturing matters, but other things do too.

Largely because this recession hasn't put only blue-collar assembly-line workers out of a job. It's put lots of different kinds of people out of work.

[Left Coast2020]

3. Absolutely. Like media consolidation, outsourcing various

other industries. In media, if they restricted media ownership and allowed more than one owner in a single market, theres 50,000 or so jobs there. In outsourcing, and I think the prez mentioned this in SOU, or implied that if you outsource jobs, you pay a penality. So goal is to bring those jobs overseas back. I don't believe much of the talk or stigma that certain jobs are lost--some, but not all. I believe that companies can be coaxed back to this market. But someone has to fight to do it. And with conditions as they are, and many repugs up for re-election too, I think WH can paint them in a corner on this. For gawd sake, if a company is starts in this contry and locates elsewhere--forcing many people to be laidoff, I think the company owes those people something for taking a dump on them. Really.

[burning rain]

4. I hate to think what sort of appalling concessions Senate Democrats will make so as to get to 60.

Even "right to work" wouldn't surprise me.

[PA Democrat]

5. Is there some American company out there that could manufacture a spine for Harry?

That would be a GREAT first step in stimulating the economy!