Obama's plan won't help for 1 main reason: people have lost faith in him and Congress will not be willing to hop on board at this point in his presidency... another reason why this plan is destined to fail.
Quote from nutmeg:
I had my own business. My neighbor, Mr Jones (we had friendly competition over the years- who keeping up with who) worked for the gov't. He retired started his own business. I asked him how he is making out, "not even covering costs" "maybe next year" I said, lmao. This is called a hobby, join the freakin club.
Rules and regulatiions are designed for the perfect world, the reality is, mistakes are made, things happen beyond our control in business, whatever, there is just no room for error.
Even for the entrpreneur who never makes a mistake, he deals on a daily basis with people who make critical mistakes (based on the same rules and regulations designed for the perfect world) who then can't pay their bills.
Quote from toc:
Obama's only goal is to get re-elected, he will come up with nice sounding plans............they work or not, that's not his worry.
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Quote from TheDudeofLife:
There really isn't too much that Obama or any president can do. Globalization and techonolgy advances have made a lot of the American labor force obsolete. This has been 30 years in the making. THe Q/A below is from 1994.
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1994/10/mm1094_06.html
MM: Who will be the winners and losers under a system of global free trade?
Goldsmith: The losers will, of course, be those who become unemployed as a result of production being moved offshore. They would also be those who lose their jobs because their companies do not move offshore and are not able to compete with cheap imported products. Finally, they will be all those affected by the reduction in their earning capacity following the shift in the sharing of value- added.
The winners will be those who can benefit from an almost inexhaustible supply of very cheap labor. They will be the companies who move their production offshore to low-cost areas; the companies who will benefit from paying lower salaries at home; and those who have capital to invest offshore, and who will receive larger dividends as a result of the very low-cost labor. But they would be like the winners of a poker game on the Titanic. The wounds inflicted on their societies would be too deep to be acceptable without brutal consequences.
It should also be remembered that one of the characteristics of developing countries is that a small handful of people control the overwhelming majority of their nation's resources. It is these people who own the major part of their nation's industrial, commercial and financial enterprises and who assemble the cheap labor which is used to manufacture products for the developed world. Thus, it is the poor in the rich countries who will subsidize the rich in the poor countries. This will have a deep impact on the social cohesion of nations. "