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Obama vs Big Three Auto again
Dec. 9th, 2008 03:37 pmIn this week's episode, Obama has dropped "fuel-efficient cars" from his make-work program. This might have something to do with Bush's insistance that the Big Three bailout must be funded from the "fuel-efficient car research" budget already passed, or it may have been that bloggers such as myself were misinterpreting what he meant in previous speeches.
He repeats here (from his Thanksgiving speech) that the make-work program will "save or create 2½ million jobs". Previously it was just "create 2½ million jobs" and before that "create 2 million jobs". This new rhetoric sounds nice, but does Obama really believe that "saved jobs" will contribute a significant fraction to the total? The two million American jobs already lost during this recession are no longer eligible to be saved.
I like the new details on his "fix up the schools" program. Current American schooling is designed to churn out factory workers, who are expected to "do as they're told" and "don't make waves". Americans do not do as well at that kind of work as the Southeast Asians do, so really the US ought to break out of the factory-worker mold and train our kids to develop the next generation of gosh-wow computer software—that's something we're actually good at! Of course, many school administrators will treat their new computers as tools for indoctrination and as traps for detecting "bad kids" who need to be branded as deviants and ejected. No word from Obama on how he is going to get rid of the evil "Zero Tolerance" people.
Is it just me, or does Obama's "wire up all the doctor's offices for electronic medical records" sound a whole lot like HillaryCare? Revenge is a dish best served cold...
So my last Obama-speech post on LJ got zero comments, but I thought it deserved better so I reposted it to DailyKos. 68 comments! A spot on the most impactful diary of the day list! I'm not sure what it means that my post was the 112th most important of the day. It was a weekend so standards were lower.
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So, Я did come back to Company 𝔾 for another week, but he never did manage to finish that initial project. Apparently there was some personality conflict with "Mr. Bear". So I'm back to looking for another assistant. Does anyone know anyone who can do PHP applications development in a work-at-home setting? Even during a recession?
He repeats here (from his Thanksgiving speech) that the make-work program will "save or create 2½ million jobs". Previously it was just "create 2½ million jobs" and before that "create 2 million jobs". This new rhetoric sounds nice, but does Obama really believe that "saved jobs" will contribute a significant fraction to the total? The two million American jobs already lost during this recession are no longer eligible to be saved.
I like the new details on his "fix up the schools" program. Current American schooling is designed to churn out factory workers, who are expected to "do as they're told" and "don't make waves". Americans do not do as well at that kind of work as the Southeast Asians do, so really the US ought to break out of the factory-worker mold and train our kids to develop the next generation of gosh-wow computer software—that's something we're actually good at! Of course, many school administrators will treat their new computers as tools for indoctrination and as traps for detecting "bad kids" who need to be branded as deviants and ejected. No word from Obama on how he is going to get rid of the evil "Zero Tolerance" people.
Is it just me, or does Obama's "wire up all the doctor's offices for electronic medical records" sound a whole lot like HillaryCare? Revenge is a dish best served cold...
So my last Obama-speech post on LJ got zero comments, but I thought it deserved better so I reposted it to DailyKos. 68 comments! A spot on the most impactful diary of the day list! I'm not sure what it means that my post was the 112th most important of the day. It was a weekend so standards were lower.
* * * * *
So, Я did come back to Company 𝔾 for another week, but he never did manage to finish that initial project. Apparently there was some personality conflict with "Mr. Bear". So I'm back to looking for another assistant. Does anyone know anyone who can do PHP applications development in a work-at-home setting? Even during a recession?
