Dan Maffei – Creating Jobs Only Immigrants Can Fill
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Dan Maffei
The Post Standard printed their “Maffeis’ first year” interview in this morning’s paper. I’m still not exactly sure where he stand on the war in Afghanistan. He’s for a troop increase, if President Obama had committed more troops than the promised 30,000. Therefore, he reserves the right to vote against funding the war. But the biggest issue for Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY 25) is “jobs, jobs, jobs!” And he’s right on top of it.
We do have job openings. We have SRC and Sensis and Lockheed-Martin and those areas. We have job areas in our hospitals, particularly for nurses and physicians. … So we have these jobs, they’re very high quality jobs, but we don’t have the people that necessarily can do them at pretty much at every level. It does mean a higher level of education than we’re seeing, retaining higher educated individuals. It means immigration. It means, if somebody wants to come in from India or China or Mexico, if they stay here, fine, that’s another Syracusan, that’s another Central New Yorker. That’s good. We need that kind of population. But it also means we really have to work harder on retraining our individuals.
I guess he doesn’t think the crop of folks showing up at his town hall meetings have what it takes to fill all those great jobs he’s “creating.”
There is something Rep. Maffei got right, but for the wrong reason. The topic is health care, and he believes the Democrats must give the President a bill to sign before the State of the Union address. He said insurance premiums are going up, which is true, but failed to mention that they’ll go up even more if he and his comrades colleagues succeed in passing a health care bill.
But here’s the part he got right:
We’re not going to survive as a nation. And so we need to do something.
He’s right – if he and the rest of the Democrats get their way we surely won’t survive as a nation. And we do need to do something – fire them in 2010.
Popularity: 1% [?]
I hope that someone makes a campaign commercial in 2010 that shows his response to my question about if he had read the bill.
Another ringing endorsement for our public education system. Can’t get enough people smart enough, so we turn to other countries. Mr. Maffei obviously has no faith in the American people, partially due to the educational system him and his ilk have crafted. Well, Mr. Maffei, you currently hold an office needing of a higher level of education than we’re seeing. New Years Eve, I’ll toast to you and your likes being unemployed by year’s end.
Beverly – the local media didn’t even air that. The Club for Growth linked to my post with the video, and I sent it to the NRCC, so hopefully they can use it. What a putz!
Michigan – so ironic, isn’t it. These folks are full of irony. But again, the media never covers it and the apathetic people don’t pick up on it.