Comments on: Public Works Work http://theactivist.org/blog/public-works-work // Culture. Consciousness. Critical Thought. // Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Williams http://theactivist.org/blog/public-works-work/comment-page-1#comment-74495 Andrew Williams Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:47:20 +0000 http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=2484#comment-74495 Thanks. From the sound of tonight's speech, the answer is leaning closer to what our new Governor (thanks for that nice letter to state employees reminding us that you are our new Gov, Bob) wants. Jobs with no real caveots. We have 20% unemployment in Southside Va. due to the gutting of manufacturing. What are those workers hired through those tax cuts going to make if they're unskilled due to your likely school cutbacks, Bob? Nothing better than the previous factories that couldn't compete with low wage labor, I'm sure. And for Obama, this program can run out in front of this "export increase" idea. Don't get me started on that. Exporting more grain from large farms that hire few workers and run off farm subsidies to the wealthiest farms is bad policy, and it's killing the one export countries in Latin America and Africa should have an advantage in. Thanks. From the sound of tonight’s speech, the answer is leaning closer to what our new Governor (thanks for that nice letter to state employees reminding us that you are our new Gov, Bob) wants. Jobs with no real caveots. We have 20% unemployment in Southside Va. due to the gutting of manufacturing. What are those workers hired through those tax cuts going to make if they’re unskilled due to your likely school cutbacks, Bob? Nothing better than the previous factories that couldn’t compete with low wage labor, I’m sure.

And for Obama, this program can run out in front of this “export increase” idea. Don’t get me started on that. Exporting more grain from large farms that hire few workers and run off farm subsidies to the wealthiest farms is bad policy, and it’s killing the one export countries in Latin America and Africa should have an advantage in.

]]> By: wayne lajoie http://theactivist.org/blog/public-works-work/comment-page-1#comment-74489 wayne lajoie Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:39:12 +0000 http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=2484#comment-74489 great article... this is definitely the direction I believe we should be going in....in fact....I just wrote an article on the same subject this afternoon on Salon.com ...albeit it is not as detailed and eloquent as yours...I think it still has some value though...if you're interested check it out... http://open.salon.com/blog/wayniak great article… this is definitely the direction I believe we should be going in….in fact….I just wrote an article on the same subject this afternoon on Salon.com …albeit it is not as detailed and eloquent as yours…I think it still has some value though…if you’re interested check it out… http://open.salon.com/blog/wayniak

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