Jobs, Ohio, Jobs, etc.
Posted by SCapozzola on February 22nd, 2008With the Democratic candidates trading barbed remarks about health care and economic prescriptions last night, ManufactureThis notes that the March 4 Ohio primary comes at a time of heavy manufacturing job losses throughout the industrial Midwest. A Bloomberg News article this morning cited AAM data on the more than 235,000 manufacturing jobs lost in Ohio alone since 2000.
Again and again voters are saying: Fix the Economy, Save our Jobs. Nowhere was this more evident than at AAM’s Town Hall meeting in Chicago Wednesday night, hosted by John Ratzenberger. As Medill News noted: “Candidates are saying a lot about the economy during this election season, but the Alliance for American Manufacturing doesn’t think they are saying enough.”
The NWI Times summarized the Town Hall with: “Although more than one speaker at the event admitted that globalization was here to stay, arguments were made by business owners, employees and politicians that manufacturing jobs need to stay within U.S. borders to stay competitive, prevent further unemployment and maintain the property tax base in manufacturing areas.”
Once again, “It’s about the economy.” As such, the U.S. would be well served by strengthening U.S. manufacturing and retaining good-paying manufacturing jobs. ManufactureThis wants to hear presidential candidates saying this, too.
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February 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Do you have any video of the conference? Of John Ratzenberger? You could put it up to this blog post. It could also be uploaded to AAM’s channel on YouTube. A viral effort could be created to spread the video around.
In the meantime, I’ll “Digg” this blog post and put it up on other social bookmarking sites.
Perhaps I could take a look at Ohio-based political blogs and let them know to of your efforts. Sites like ProgressOhio http://www.progressohio.org/ or Blue Ohioan http://blueohioan.blogspot.com/ There are some conservative leaning blogs that may be interested as well.
Strategies such as these can be duplicated in states such as Pennsylvania as well.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Just Dugg the article at http://www.digg.com/political_opinion/Manufacturing_Job_Loss_Getting_Little_Attention
February 25th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Remember Pearl Harbor!
Buy American!
Boycott Japanese capitals, goods and products!
BIG3 must mean “GM, Ford, and Chrysler”!
Let me eat American beef!
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