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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (367726)	1/21/2008 3:48:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578305

"I'd hire 10 machinists right now if I could," said John Dalrymple, president of the company, which makes high-end parts for military helicopters and nuclear submarines. "That's eight to 10 percent of our workforce." While millions of jobs making everything from textiles to steel have moved to new powerhouses like China in recent years, precision manufacturing remains a crucial niche in the United States, one that is overworked and chronically understaffed. See that's what the gov't should be doing....determining where there are employee shortfalls like in precision manu. and retraining people for jobs in that industry. Of course, that's not happening because we have leadership that is more interested oil than anything else.