Jobs

Last week it was reported that over 63,000 net jobs were lost. The auto industry continues to scale back production, the retail sector is cutting jobs and re engineering its business as a way of improving its profitability.

Alternative energy and green technologies are areas in which the US can rebuild our employment base to create good jobs that pay good wages. These technologies are wanted and needed around the world to reduce global warming and to escape the rapidly increasing price of oil.

The US government, both Federal and State levels, needs to do everything possible to support the development of these industries. Just as the industrial revolution moved us from being an farming based society, we need another 'revolution' of sorts to move us towards self sustaining technologies.