Obama and Job Creation

...available, I fear. If he, as promised, embraces the radical environmental agenda. So, Semper Lib, we might all be out there on these public works programs bustin' up concrete w/a jack hammer or operating a back hoe. Both of which will be powered and lubricated w/vegetable oil. Ha!
Too bad we can't be "radically" expanding domestic oil production. Now there would be some solid jobs for U.S. workers. To replace the lost "manufacturing jobs" we've been discussing. DD

The problem is these public works jobs require skills, not college degrees. To many people are going to school to get a degree so they don't have to get dirty.Why do you think we have all these Mexicans here picking fruit doing landscaping etc. The average American is too much of a pre Madonna to do these tasks. Give me one ex AIG executive who will get in a ditch? Trade and vocational skill jobs are at a premium because people don't want to do them. They all want get fat behind a desk jobs. ME I have never had a desk job. Been into many ditches run many backhoes driven many tractor trailers etc. Now I am going to go take a course to be a farrier. Why because people will always own horses. It is a low competition industry because no one does it. Were I live there is one. The rest come from across the state. So this will be a lucrative industry for me. But other trades are short people too. Just no one wants to really work to be in one. If people want to work there is work out there. You just have to be willing to get your hands dirty to do it and have some skills.

Thanks for your comments, both.

I'd love to see us expanding domestic oil production, but regardless of what our new President does, at $50 a barrel it isn't going to happen anyway. Even the refinery expansions are on hold now, and the chemical industry has bottomed out...

I've never been a fan of government public works projects. Sure, we need some roads, bridges, etc., but the priorities are going to be set by politicians, and no new thing of value is created.