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No Presidential Candidate is going to bring jobs back to Ohio unless they re-develop education and re-educate 50 year old factory workers that have just been laid off. The only way for new jobs to appear in Ohio is to either a) eliminate NAFTA and global trade or b) invent something new. No candidate has sponsored either of these.
Ohio is screwed, more so than most states, and I hate to say it because I’m a buckeye and Ohio is my home, but in order for Ohio to find salvation it will take more than a person in the White House…especially when the person who wants the White House only cares about Ohio when Ohio’s primary is next on the calendar.
Tell me, Senators Obama, McCain, and Clinton: In what way are these jobs going to be created? Out of thin air?
Yeah… I think I thought these exact thoughts when watching Clinton say something like “We’re going to bring manufacturing jobs back to Ohio.” If she can do that, then I can get Wal-Mart to source everything it sells from the US.
We need new energy policy, and green-collar jobs. If politicians would seriously get behind wind, solar, etc, then we could bring real jobs back to places like Ohio.
The strength of a functioning federal system is that a “fix” in one place necessarily means an overlay of replicative “fixes” across the nation. The NAFTA revolution has the same problem that all revolutions have. That problem is that in any new system or method, there will be surplus labor and from a financial view, it is better to recruit younger labor units than to retrain older labor units. Any way other than the abandonment of surplus labor is too inefficient for the MBA class.
Abandonment of a large part of the US population to second class or third world existence is not an option.