Romney Wants Help for Displaced Workers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Romney Wants Help for Displaced Workers
Saturday November 3, 2007 8:31 AM

By AMY LORENTZEN
Associated Press Writer

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney said Friday he wants to help displaced workers with special accounts they can use to pay for more education and training.

Romney's plan is part of a free trade proposal he's touting this week. In it, he seeks more authority for the president to negotiate trade deals, and calls for a new alliance of foreign partners that are committed to opening more markets.

``I want to make sure that trade is fair and our workers are trained properly for the jobs of tomorrow,'' Romney told about 150 people at a hotel in central Iowa.

Romney's plan would help displaced workers by creating what he calls worker empowerment and training accounts. The self-managed accounts would be for any worker entering the work force development system, not just those hurt by trade deals, according to his campaign.



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[Demeter]

1. What About Food, Rent, Medicine?

All those programs are oversubscribed and cut to the bone.

[Deja Q]

2. Lovely, in theory. If he's ultimately elected, will he remain as sincere?

[Trillo]

3. Romney might just as well say,

he will facilitate workers reporting to reedumacation camps.

[Bombero1956]

4. help?

for workers he helped put out of work? We all know that his company Bain Capital specializes in buying companies, cutting the workforce and benefits and selling it for a nice fat profit. His kind of compassion we can do without.

[Zorra]

5. Well, isn't that just so incrediblystupid? Or maybe he's talking about

displaced workers from other countries that come to the US to work illegally.

Either way, it's an unworkable idea, and so typically republican.

Bank on this: No republican is ever going to willingly hand out financial aid to any American worker that makes less than $200,000 a year.