William A. Manning

Let’s help bring back jobs.

Jesse Jackson Jr. wants to blame the Ipad for thousands of lost jobs? Let’s help him and, other progressives, bring back those jobs and maybe more!

Ipads are made in China, huh? OK, let’s mandate that Apple has to have the Ipad made in the USA. Sounds good right? Yeah, Apples profit margin takes a dip due to US wages compared to Chinese wages. Yaay for sticking it to the stock holders! They don’t get to make as much money. It’s not just the rich that own shares in Apple, a lot of retirement accounts have shares of Apple stock in them. Well, I guess those people who wanted to save and invest for their retirements, instead relying on Social Security, are just hateful for not caring about putting people to work.

How about looking at EPA regulations? When it comes to creating jobs, I guess progressives just don’t think about that. The Ipad is made out of plastic, correct? Plastic is made out of oil. Aren’t progressives the ones that scream “Oil is bad” the loudest? If progressives had their way, oil would be banned. That means that the Ipad couldn’t be made. Damn, there go all those lost jobs that the government mandated Apple bring back to the USA.

OK. Now we can’t have an Ipad. In my view, that sucks. In the progressive view, that ROCKS!
So now we go back to the printing press to make all those newspapers, magazines and books. Companies naturally go back to China, because labor, material and taxes are cheaper. Guess what? Jesse Jackson Jr. and the progressive movement pass another mandate that publishers have to print their books in the USA.

That’s outstanding, right?

Nope. The cost of literature just went up due to labor, material, complying with EPA regulations and tax costs.

We already know that US workers make more than their Chinese counterpart, so let’s take a look at some other problems that face progressive thought if companies were mandated to use US labor.

First, they’re trying to create more jobs for US workers, so what better way than to bring back the old printing presses that used typesetters. Yep, thousands of people would be employed to put teeny, tiny letters in typeset plates before the words are transferred to paper. Now that would be a boon to the economy! No, not really. The price of literature just went up again, the selection offered by publishers went down and the speed, which information is spread, just slowed to a crawl. What happens when publisher’s sales fall? Profits fall. What happens then? People are laid off. Sounds dandy, huh?

Second, we’ll look at the problem progressives have with the source of energy used in the US. Since progressives don’t want to use oil, we can be more dependent on coal. Nope, can’t do that either. Progressives are trying to save the earth. There goes 174,000 coal industry related jobs and putting another 1.5 million jobs at risk. Whoohoo! Jesse Jackson Jr. and his progressive friends sure are busy passing laws to put people back to work.

There goes another major source of energy that can’t be used. Today, 47.1% of our energy needs is provided by coal and progressives are pushing for the EPA to put coal burning plants on the extinct list.
What is one progressive solution to replacing the lost coal energy? Sure as hell isn’t nuclear power, which already provides 20% of the electricity in the US.

Ok, let’s try to provide 67.1% of our nation’s energy needs with solar power then. Did you know that today solar energy provides less than 1% of the US’s energy needs? Yep. That’s it. Has anybody even thought of the cost to accomplish such a task? The Heartland Institute did.

Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!

To provide 100 percent of U.S. energy needs through Nellis solar power would require installation of about 70,000 square miles of solar panels and equipment at a cost of about $30 trillion, an unobtainable amount of capital.

The 70,000 square miles of solar panels would cover an area the size of Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Washington, DC, combined. Those are relatively small states; Oklahoma or Michigan alone would be sufficient, or half of California.

Simple math (minus financing) would bring the cost close to $20 TRILLION!

Now, let’s try to replace 67.1% of our nation’s energy needs with wind power. Here’s a fact, wind power provides the US with roughly 1% of its energy?

(source)

Ohhh. Now those are some great ideas?! If you do the math, our economy couldn't afford an immediate transition to a breakdown of a 47%/20% ratio in solar/wind power, or vice versa.

Besides, birds, UFO's and wind turbines don't mix.

Anyway, who do you think is pushing for renewable energy?

Ooooh, I bet he’s thinking of how GE can get a piece of that estimated trillion…..

Third, we’ll take a look at paper. What is paper made of? Wood, right? Where does wood come from? Trees, right? OK, we have these basics out of the way. Here are a few problems. The chemicals used to create paper are as follows (source):

Silicate of Magnesia
Alkyl Ketene Dimer
Sulfate of Alumina
Natural Sulfate of Lime
Ammonium Zirconium Carbonate
Anthraquinone
Alkylphenol Ethoxylates
Alkenyl Succinic Anhydride
Barium Sulfate
A milk phosphoprotein
Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
Sodium Hydroxide
Precipitated Calcium Carbonate
Hydrated Silicate of Alumina
Chlorine Dioxide
Chlorine
Calcium Magnesium Carbonate
Diethylene Triamine Penta Acetate
Ethylene Diamine Tetra acetic Acid
Natural Polymer
Hydrogen Peroxide
Calcium Oxide
Calcium Carbonate
Magnesium Carbonate
Abietic Acid
Sodium Abietate
Sodium Sulfate
Sodium Carbonate
Sodium Hydrosulfite
Sodium Silicate
Sulfur
Titanium Dioxide

The EPA regulates these chemicals and they could, theoretically, regulate them out of use.

Oh, we have to save the earth, so progressives don’t want trees cut down, therefore we can’t use paper.

We could always put this information on the internet and download it; again, thousands of people are out of work, oil is bad for the environment and we’re “wasting energy”.