Job Creation: a difficult category to address since trying to convince corporations to create new jobs employing American workers or bring back jobs that have been outsourced to China and other overseas nations would be nearly impossible. Obviously a major infrastructure program would generate great many new jobs.
One area that should be given strong consideration as a basis for positive job creation is one that I read about on money.com. It said that there are nearly 6 million unfilled jobs in America because of a lack of appropriate skills and training. That's astounding and it should be one of the first areas to be examined to see how this shortage of qualified Americans could be dealt with.
The types of jobs most in need involve electrical and mechanical technicians to operate complex, computer-controlled plant machinery, together with those with the appropriate training to maintain them. America may have lost millions of manufacturing jobs to China but it still has quite a bit of manufacturing left that is not labor intensive but quite complex.
This is a ripe area for picking. This country needs more vocational schools including those at high school levels; also various training schools offering a wide array of skills that would fit those millions of jobs that currently unfilled. This is a no-brainer and the only question is; why has this not been done before?
Tax reform: no one from Wall Street should be involved. The IRS, together with the country's most respected economists, representatives from selected state taxing bodies as well as others who have the appropriate knowledge to tackle this highly complex and very controversial issue must be.
Representatives from the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, should be directly involved with each of these study groups and play a major role in developing the needed cost estimates for any specific program submitted for consideration.
Republicans who are determined to repeal Obamacare are doing the opposite of what is being recommended in this article. They are meeting behind closed doors in secret sessions to come up with legislation to repeal that program instead of addressing and fixing its faulted areas. They are determined to implement some program like Trump Care that, based on CBO estimates, would be a complete disaster and result in over 20 million Americans losing their medical coverage.
Is what is presented here a perfect organizational plan? Not by any means for it's not much more than an outline for organizing study groups to address and find the best ways to develop solutions for America's most pressing problems. But it is at least something positive to get this process underway.
Would Trump and Republicans ever embrace and go forward with the kind of positive, constructive way to organize efforts to create a far more effective healthcare system, millions of new jobs, the repair of this nation's infrastructure; and tax reform? The answer is a resounding NO!
And that's exactly why these problems will never be solved as long as these current politicians are allowed to remain in control of this government and its functions. It's time to begin the process of cleaning house and sweeping these grossly incompetents politicians out of Washington.
Michael Payne
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