Posted by
Don White on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:57:58 PM
Statistics are like potter's clay. They readily yield to the clever hand of the sculptor. So what if America lost 35,000 jobs the last three years?
Americans should not look with gloom and fear at jobs leaving our shores and going to smaller countries that can make things for less. We should pattern our system after the ancient maker of brooms. He asked each of a hundred families in his tribe to create one broom of exacting quality and proportions. He paid these private entrepreneurs per broom and sold his brooms on the market. He did not invest in expensive plant and equipment, but did business in a scaled down way.
I've been an author under the name of Donald White for many years. Yet my fiction pen name, Donald Bruce, may be more notorious and findable on the net than my real name. This afternoon I received a call from the Philippians. The woman said she knew I was an author and that her firm wanted to help me market my new book. She meant my new real estate book, SELLING FAST: We Sold Our House In One Day And You Can Too. Co-authors were my real estate guru wife Carolyn White and son, Marcus.
She's speaking broken English then it comes to me. I only used the Donald De Bruce name on fiction, so things got screwed up, but in a nice way.
Her name was "Jennylyn Fernandez" and she didn't know Tiger's Woods' mother was from the Philippians. <jfernandez@yenchensupport.com> but she called my home number that I thought I never gave out. She must have had a great researcher. Her email arrived this afternoon.
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She's offering a 30% discount, so maybe someone can use her.
So what if America lost jobs the past two years! We're smart enough--we can create 10,000 new jobs a month--at least a Mitt Romney can. But to those who lost their jobs, it may not be that simple. That's where government and unions--even to me, a conservative--can play a role. It's in training the unemployed for new kinds of jobs, jobs that may pay even more than what they were making. I recommend you read a great book, A Country That Works by Andy Stern, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), largest and fastest growing U.S. union.
business@simonandschuster.com or 1-800-456-6798
Unions have failed. They should be big time into retraining. This is why unions in America only represent 12 million blue collar workers. Union bosses have not been responsive to the changing world. They should be in a position to anticipate what's happening before it happens in the job market. More on unions and creating new jobs later.
Don White
dusanotes@yahoo.com