Creating new jobs-President tackles unemployment by assembling A-list team of advisers

[babylonsister]

Creating new jobs
President tackles unemployment by assembling A-list team of advisers

Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 | 2:01 a.m.


President Barack Obama has shown he is serious about wanting to find ways to create jobs, this time by recruiting an impressive roster of corporate and union executives to serve as nonpartisan advisers on the new President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Members include top executives from General Electric, Xerox, American Express, Citigroup, Boeing, Intel, Facebook, Comcast and Eastman Kodak to name a few, along with leaders of the AFL-CIO and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

At the council’s inaugural meeting Thursday in Washington, Obama set the tone by stating that although the economy is beginning to grow, unemployment remains too high.

As Obama said: “It’s critical for us to have input from folks who are actually hiring, putting people to work, making payroll, making the products and services that make our economy so powerful.”

For the council to succeed, it should be willing to consider input not only from corporate and union leaders, but also from small businesses that create most of the nation’s jobs, individuals who are struggling to find employment and educators who are needed to help train America’s workforce.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/28/creating-new-jobs/

[MannyGoldstein]

1. He should try FDR instead of Immelt

A boy can dream, no?

Actually - did you know that leftist Massachusetts is producing new jobs at the fastest rate in the country?

[Armstead]

15. Yeah -- Despite the tarring we get, Massachusetts is one of the healthier states at the moment

The Commies in the Socialist Republic of Massachusetts must be doing something right.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. A dozen or so corp execs balanced even-steven

by 2 union leaders.

Damn, that works for me!

[babylonsister]

3. I was going to editorialize 'let the whining begin in...'. I knew this was

coming.

[rhett o rick]

7. Hello, Pres Obama asks the corporations that are strangling the middle class to help the middle

class. Dont you see the problem there? These are the very corporations that are spending billions to kill the middle class. I am surprised he didnt invite the Koch brothers.

[polichick]

11. Speaking the truth is hardly whining - actions speak louder than words...

Another example of lofty words accompanied by actions that put corporate tools in charge - just like the cabinet.

[Armstead]

16. Can you fill me in on the difference between "whining" and legitimate concern?

But since you were expecting whining, here's some for ya:

""As Obama said: “It’s critical for us to have input from folks who are actually hiring, putting people to work, making payroll, making the products and services that make our economy so powerful.”"

It seems to me those are the people who get heard and heard and heard....Everyone else? Not so much.

[boppers]

5. Unions are hiring people?

I suppose if they were, that could help their membership rosters.

[jenmito]

4. K&R. n/t

[rhett o rick]

6. And you cant see the problem here is part of the bigger problem. So sad. nm

[brentspeak]

8. The corporate and bankster execs will give A+ advice on how best to ship American jobs overseas

[jeanpalmer]

9. Has he considered

that the reason unemployment is so high is because these guys have eliminated or shipped out a lot of jobs?

Has he ever asked them not to ship them out? No. Will he ever? No.

[Safetykitten]

10. The group of morons. What could they possibly do or say that would help...oh yeah...

TAX CREDITS!

[jtuck004]

12. LOL eom

Thank you for that.

[Yavin4]

13. Like Hiring A Pack of Foxes

To discuss hen house security.

[Armstead]

17. ...and then holding a cooking class

[Bake]

14. Hey, these guys are EXPERTS on unemployment ...

They've CAUSED so much of it here!

Bake