Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Obama talks tough on jobs, but let 1,200 of them escape to Brazil

While job growth in the private sector continues to be anemic, as he has in prior State of the Union addresses, President Obama will brag about job creation. Tomorrow he will go on a campaign-style tour.

From Bloomberg:
Obama will leave tomorrow morning for a three-day trip to Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan, all battlegrounds in the election.

To talk about manufacturing, Obama tomorrow will stop at Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which makes screw-type conveyors for moving materials such as feed, grain and chemicals for farming and processing facilities.

Later in the day he is scheduled to visit Chandler, Arizona, about 20 miles southeast of Phoenix, where Intel Corp. has a manufacturing plant. The world's largest chipmaker says the facility employs 9,700 people.
But President Obama, as I noted in this blog, chose to bypass a reliable American manufacturer, Hawker Beechcraft, for the contract to build its new light attack aircraft, to Embraer, Brazilian firm.

It will cost America 1,200 jobs.

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