Friday, June 1, 2012

Obama promises a million well-paying manufacturing jobs for returning heroes

Obama was in Minnesota today talking up his initiative to fast-track returning service members into "well-paying" manufacturing jobs.

Good luck with that, Mr. President.

Maybe President Hopey-changey hasn't noticed, but those jobs are a little scarce on the ground these days.

I'm guessing the last 30 or 40 years of bipartisan war on America's working class has something to do with that.

The well-paying manufacturing jobs are still well-paying, at least by Mexican standards.

Trouble is, they're in Mexico.

So maybe what this jobs-for-veterans initiative needs is free Spanish lessons and a ticket to Tijuana.

Elsewhere in his remarks the President managed to blame the European economic crisis for America's economic crisis. A trillion dollars on stupid wars in the last ten years and trillions more bailing out the too-big-and-politically-well-connected-to-fail banksters had nothing to do with it.

There was a somber note as well. Obama encouraged the nation to pray for the economy.

Well, nothing else is working, so why not?

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