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Senate republicans give Obama new powers, but they are still classified.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2751458" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>So way back when NAFTA was up for vote they had a televised debate and I remember the exchange between Ross Perot and Al Gore.</p><p></p><p>Perot kept saying if you passed NAFTA the next sound you would hear would be a giant sucking sound as jobs left the US.</p><p>Gore stood up and voiced more reasons why NAFTA should be passed and then he said this, I remember it clear as day:</p><p></p><p>"Sure we will lose some manufacturing jobs but we'll gain new jobs, better jobs, hi-tech jobs".</p><p></p><p>What he didn't say was who would pay to retrain those displaced manufacturing workers to fill the new hi-tech jobs.</p><p>He also didn't say what they were going to do with the workers in their late 50's and early 60's were too old to make retraining costs break even.</p><p></p><p>I guess that's kind of why I figure this is just more of the same ol same ol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2751458, member: 3371"] So way back when NAFTA was up for vote they had a televised debate and I remember the exchange between Ross Perot and Al Gore. Perot kept saying if you passed NAFTA the next sound you would hear would be a giant sucking sound as jobs left the US. Gore stood up and voiced more reasons why NAFTA should be passed and then he said this, I remember it clear as day: "Sure we will lose some manufacturing jobs but we'll gain new jobs, better jobs, hi-tech jobs". What he didn't say was who would pay to retrain those displaced manufacturing workers to fill the new hi-tech jobs. He also didn't say what they were going to do with the workers in their late 50's and early 60's were too old to make retraining costs break even. I guess that's kind of why I figure this is just more of the same ol same ol. [/QUOTE]
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