Obama Names Manufacturing Adviser

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/obama_names_manufacturing_advi.html?wprss=44">Obama Names Manufacturing Adviser

By Scott Wilson

President Obama has named Ron Bloom, an influential figure in the national labor movement before joining the administration's auto task force earlier this year, as his senior counselor for manufacturing policy.

In that role, Bloom will help Obama try to rebuild a U.S. manufacturing sector that has lost millions of jobs in recent years, the White House announced Sunday. Obama is expected to discuss Bloom's new position Monday when he speaks to the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati.

"Last week we learned that our manufacturing sector expanded for the first time in 18 months and had the highest monthly output in two years," Obama said in the statement announcing Bloom's new role. "It's a sign that we're on the right track to economic recovery, but that we still have a long way to go."

Bloom is currently a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, assigned to the auto task force that earlier this year recommended billions of dollars in government aid to help see General Motors and Chrysler through bankruptcy

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[firedupdem]

1. K&R! He has a strong union background. Good news n/t

[Deja Q]

2. Ditto!!

[FreakinDJ]

3. Try placing "Equal Tariffs" on Chinese Goods

No more 2% tariffs on Chinese goods entering America and 20 - 45% tariffs on American goods entering China

[msans]

4. wow

i guess this will be beck's new target

[SpartanDem]

5. It's stuff like this that make people calling this Bush's third term look like fucking morons

[Cha]

11. They're lazy and don't want to investigate

anything beyond their latest whine.

"bush's 3rd term" has such a nice whiney ring to it.

[jenmito]

6. K&R back up to 5 recs.

:hi:

[firedupdem]

7. kick! n/t

[HamdenRice]

8. Why aren't the alleged DU "Socialists" hailing this appointment?! This is great news!

First I'll answer the question -- many are not real socialists, but whack job WSWS Trotskyites who hate unions. They hate the actual Socialist, Green, Democratic, Labor, Social Democratic and Democratic Socialist parties of Europe and North America that are not splinters of splinters of splinter Trotskyite factions.

Bloom has made a career of creating worker owned companies and he will probably come up with some very creative solutions to manufacturing's problems.

[ArnoldLayne]

9. I remember him I met him through the International of the United Steelworkers Union

rally for us when I was on strike in 1997 at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. He was considered the USW boy genius or "financial wizard" which was what I believed they referred to him as. He reminded me now as I look back as that character Reed on Criminal Minds when it comes to financial matters and numbers. Some sort of extreme photographic memory as I now recall was how a couple of our Local Union officials had said after being in negotiations with him between the Union and Company during that strike.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Sounds promising. :^)

[ArnoldLayne]

12. I think he is the right person for the job.

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