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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (4565)	2/29/2004 9:15:18 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

CR, what we need to do about outsourcing. Here is a excerpt. ..contd from ajc.com What the global economy shifts demand is leadership, planning and coherent follow-through. In his State of the Union address, Bush sent the right message when he talked about increasing funds for two-year colleges, which provide skills in viable fields such as medical specialties and information technology and in trades such as auto mechanics. But when it came down to turning his talk into action, he blinked. In his proposed budget, Bush continued to reduce expenditures for Labor Department programs such as the Workforce Investment Act, which assists people in finding work and training for existing work. The president spoke about helping ex-offenders, but he failed to address real issues such as a prohibition in the Higher Education Act that restricts prisoners from having Pell grants or the barriers many states have erected to prevent ex-offenders from holding certain jobs. On another front, it is inconsistent for the Bush administration to praise business formation while reducing the budget of the Small Business Administration. A visionary leader would embrace efforts such as the National Innovation Initiative, co-chaired by Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, to encourage new technology and new fields of work with high-paying, high-skill jobs. Similarly, Kerry proposes a worthy initiative to provide tax incentives to businesses that produce new manufacturing jobs. Moreover, the federal government needs to expand the safety net for people who are laid-off. They need extended unemployment benefits and cheap (or free) health care until they find decent jobs. Congress should also consider a system of wage insurance, which would pay jobless workers a stipend while they are re-trained for new jobs. Global economic forces are too big to be stopped; nor should they be. But the next president should have a focused and realistic strategy to help workers survive those forces without losing their homes, their savings and their self-respect.