Jen Kuznicki
Didn’t we put our kids through college so they wouldn’t have to work the jobs we did? While Obama panders to unions, people with college degrees are wondering why they should vote for Obama if he has no plan for their future other than a step down.
From Mercury News Fact-checking Obama’s convention speech:
OBAMA: “We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years.”
THE FACTS: Obama has claimed an increase of some 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the past 29 months. But this is cherry picking by the president. From the beginning of Obama’s term 3 1/2 years ago, manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 500,000, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing jobs have been on a steady decline for nearly two decades.
Even though there has been a modest uptick in manufacturing jobs this year, unless there is a major turnaround, it seems unlikely that Obama’s goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs can be reached by his target date of 2016.
And if the manufacturing jobs Obama claims he can create actually appear, why are we claiming that college is a national right, when manufacturing jobs require skill and on-the-job training?
And doesn’t every middle class parent try to help their children do better than they did? Doesn’t he say here that the middle class, under his leadership, will stay where it is at?
I believe so. He says that if you are middle class, you’ll stay middle class, and your spot in life is chosen by birth.
There is no upward economic mobility with Obama.
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If you listened carefully to the DNC speeches, the jobs saved and created were jobs where hours were cut across the board to save as many jobs as possible, and jobs that are low pay, and part time. You need 3 to make up for one…and there aren't even enough of these to go around.
It doesn't take a math wizard to figure out that if you made more on unemployment (1/2 pay) than you do at your current job, you are in a bad state of affairs. I feel sorry for those that weren't terminated too…those who have had to endure much less pay just to say they have a job. It's almost like the living dead – with no option of mobility.