Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The White House sees competitiveness as a framework Republicans could support. GOP lawmakers traditionally have backed the types of trade deals and research-and-development efforts that Obama is promoting. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appeared to give the president an opening when he said last week in a speech that "my advice to my colleagues is if the president is willing to do what we would do anyway, then we should say yes."
The Chamber of Commerce could find no greater advocate for their style of "competitiveness" than Jeff Immelt, the new Chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors. As head of GE, Immelt oversaw that closing of 29 plants in the U.S. in just the last two years with an attendant loss of 3,000 jobs. Many of these jobs have been exported, with a threatened elimination of many more to follow unless the American GE workers get more "competitive."
Expect to hear a lot about "jobs creation" as Obama speaks about reviving the Dow Jones Industrials Average as his solution to our economic recovery. Just don't expect anything to be said about a "family-supporting wage" or even the country within which such jobs will be created. It really doesn't matter.
"If Wall Street's happy, we're all happy!"
It's a message that even Mitch McConnell can love. Bi-partisanship has arrived, and it looks a whole lot like a win-win for "the economy." I guess the rest of us will just have to fend for ourselves.