For me, the low point of last night’s debate – and the most telling – was the lack of response to the young man who does not have a job upon graduating from college. Neither Obama nor Romney even pretended to have a plan to provide a job for that young man right now. People don’t need jobs five years from now. They need them now.
Jobs…When?
Ted Rall
http://rall.comTed Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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President Obama promised more jobs, mañana, si dios quiere.Mr Romney promised immediate full employment, along with massive tax cuts, a federal budget surplus, and very cheap gasoline. President Obama called Mr Romney a liar. The moderator asked, ‘How?’ since she was not at all impartial, but a rabid Obamabot. And Mr Romney explained: ‘I have been a businessman for 25 years. I know how to do all this. I did it at Bain. I did it as governor of Massachusetts. I did it at the Olympics.’Mr Rall is too young to remember ’68. President Johnson had gotten the US deeper into Vietnam (he’d had help from Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy). After Korea, it was clear the US couldn’t win, because the Chinese would not allow a decisive US victory. The US could not withdraw, that would be appeasement and dominoes. President Johnson had no idea what to do, so he said, ‘I will neither seek nor accept the nomination.’ So the nomination descended on Humphrey, who said he had to continue just as Johnson had, with neither victory nor withdrawal possible.Then Nixon said, if elected, he had a ‘secret plan’ for total, unconditional victory, and the voters elected him. In his memoirs, Nixon said he had achieved that total, unconditional victory, but the Democrats squandered it out of spite. Sadly, only Nixon could see that total, unconditional victory, everyone else saw humiliating defeat for the US.So now, Romney has a secret plan for full employment, massive tax cuts, a big budget surplus, and much, much cheaper gasoline. So don’t say no one has promised plenty of jobs. Obama hasn’t, Romney has.
And if Romney delivers, I’ll take that job on Mars that’ll be opening up. Or maybe the one on Alpha Centauri that they just discovered. I’m sure Mr Romney will give me a good recommendation for that job on Alpha Centauri. And I’m sure he’ll give Mr Rall one as well.
Well gosh, Ted – So you’ve joined the group that wants jobs NOW! Sorry, bud – there ain’t no jobs. The USA doesn’t have any more good-paying manufacturing or whatever jobs anymore – and most of this is due to the fact that you can get people in other parts of the world (not the USA) to do labor and work for much cheaper – like me! Things have shifted so quckly – helped along mightily by the “global economic recession”, that the skills people possess in the USA are not very competitive at the price or slary they want or are willing to work for = no jobs. Look at your predicament – you know better than I do that your job has been – to a certain extent – outsourced also. Everyone can be a “pundit” now – thanks to the Internet. If you need an editor or a proofreader for English text, my rate is about 3 dollars a page now – that’s the global rate – US editors and proofreaders can start tearing their hair out and whining, but my client base is slowly increasing. Do you WANT TO BE A LOSER? OK – then keep on whining and doing the same thing over and over – hoping that the results will change….