Convince the confused: How will your candidate help create jobs in America?

[Deja Q]

Clinton, Obama, and Edwards supporters - please chime in with as much material as you can muster.

[still_one]

1. endless wars need soldiers, thus jobs are created /nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Edwards - by modifying all free trade agreements and forcing jobs to be brought back to the U.S.....

... by enforcing anti-trust laws so that true competition can exist in the U.S. again.....
and much more!!!!

[AzDar]

11. He's the man with the plan.

:hi:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. I love Edwards! He's also for promoting the growth and creation of unions! nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. The shell shocked rethugs will need someone to help them through

their up and coming reality check. There will be a huge need for kindler gentler therapists and social workers.

[Xipe Totec]

4. The will all allow Bender Rodriguez to legally work in the US

so his job will stay here instead of going to the Maquiladoras in Mexico.

[Deja Q]

5. Once I bother to find out which candidate you're voting for,

remind me not to vote for (gender) out of mere spite. :P

[Xipe Totec]

8. Kucinich

K-U-C-I-N-I-C-H


:yoiks:

[Deja Q]

10. Oh

:hide:

[Cassandra]

6. I think Edwards has been talking about the...

tax incentives large corporations have been given to move jobs overseas. From his website:

"Eliminate Tax Incentives to Move Offshore: The U.S. tax code encourages multinational corporations to invest overseas by allowing them to indefinitely defer taxation on their foreign profits. A recent $90 billion "tax holiday" for multinational corporations failed to create jobs, as President Bush promised, and many of these companies laid off employees instead. The effective tax rate on foreign non-financial income is less than 5 percent, which is well below the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent. In some cases corporations actually receive subsidies to invest overseas through a "negative tax." Edwards will eliminate the benefit of deferral in low-tax countries, ensuring that American companies' profits are taxed when earned at either the U.S. rate or by a foreign country at a comparable rate. "

[waiting for hope]

7. Gladly -

First, I thought this was brilliant:

Edwards Initiative Would Train 150,000 American Workers A Year For "Green Collar" Jobs
Jul 13, 2007 12:29 PM

Des Moines, Iowa – Senator John Edwards today announced a new initiative he would pursue as President to ensure that regular Americans share in the benefits of the new energy economy. His investments in a new energy future are projected to create over a million new jobs economy-wide, and the new Green Collar Jobs training plan will offer job training and placement for up to 150,000 workers a year.

"We can turn the crisis of climate change into an opportunity for a new energy economy, right here in America – and Iowa in particular," Edwards said. "Now is the time to make sure that the economy of tomorrow is an all-aboard economy where nobody is left behind."

John Edwards has already proposed an ambitious plan to cap global warming pollution and reduce it by 80 percent by 2050. At the same time, he will sell carbon pollution permits to build a New Energy Economy Fund to bring struggling family farms back to life, revitalize America's manufacturing base and harness American innovation.

http://www.johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20070713-green-collar-jobs/
http://www.johnedwards.com/issues/environment/green-collar-jobs/

Edwards: Going Green Brings Manufacturing Jobs
By Thomas J. Sheeran, Associated Press Writer
Manufacturing.Net - July 06, 2007

CLEVELAND (AP) - Millions of manufacturing jobs can result from collaboration between blue-collar industries and environmental projects, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a union political gathering Thursday.

''The Blue Green Alliance really can create 1 million, 2 million new manufacturing jobs to replace some of the jobs that have been lost,'' Edwards told about 600 political activists from the United Steelworkers of America union at a conference on reviving U.S. manufacturing.

The Blue Green Alliance was formed last year by the union and the Sierra Club to promote job creation and work on environmental initiatives including global warming and development of solar and wind power.

The nation would benefit from taking the lead in developing fuel-efficient vehicles, the former North Carolina senator said.

''America ought to be leading the way in development of the technology that we need,'' he said. ''If we do it smart, we can actually replace a lot of the manufacturing jobs that have been lost in America.''

The nation has lost 5 million manufacturing jobs in three decades. The manufacturing share of the nation's work force has dipped from 20 percent in 1979 to 11 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

http://www.manufacturing.net/Edwards.aspx

I can't think of a better way to help save the environment while at the same time, taking pride in your work because it's part of the solution to help correct a horrible wrong.

[Telly Savalas]

16. The two birds with one stone approach is a great idea.

Kudos to Edwards.

[waiting for hope]

17. Like making Lemonade out of lemons...

I still think that's the most brilliant solution to date. :)

[blues90]

9. I have absolutely no idea

If there were a solution it would take years , I can't imagine the corps who sent the jobs away are going to bring them back .

If there were jobs setup for green or

re-newable fuels then we would have some jobs , they are not for everyone though .

I wish I had a clue how this could happen , we can't go back and looking forward , well who knows .

[blondeatlast]

13. None of them are RRRepublicans; to me, that's an excellent place to begin. nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. My candidate would create jobs

that rebuild our nation's infrastructure in a new, green way. It's the Green WPA, and my candidate is Dennis Kucinich--the one candidate who has plans that make sense and who has the courage to introduce legislation in Congress to get started on them (HR 676).

[ileus]

15. unless they expand federal or state payrolls, they won't ...

Edwards may create a few new jobs for lawyers. Hillary and Obama??? I'm not sure...Presidents don't create private sector jobs unless it's on the back of the tax payers...For instance government contracts, and new programs. We need someone that can actually muscle some of the jobs that have been exported over the past 8 years back to America.