Getting Our Jobs Back: Andy Grove Wants to Win and Robert Reich Doesn’t Even Want to Fight

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Saturday July 10, 2010 · 6:27 AM PDT

2010/07/10 · 06:27

In a very thought provoking recent editorial, Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO clearly is calling for a strong federal role in creating jobs. I guess Andy didn’t get the message from the Right Wing Nutjob Teabaggers that the US Government can’t create jobs even though clearly Asian Government policy has been instrumental in creating a vast number of jobs.

No. 1 Objective

Such evidence stares at us from the performance of several Asian countries in the past few decades. These countries seem to understand that job creation must be the No. 1 objective of state economic policy. The government plays a strategic role in setting the priorities and arraying the forces and organization necessary to achieve this goal.

Even more interesting, Andy is calling on the US to fight back to reclaim the millions of jobs lost to Asia and to stop the hemorrhage of high tech and manufacturing jobs to Asia.

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Saturday April 10, 2010 · 4:37 PM PDT

2010/04/10 · 16:37

First GE Solar closed up shop in Newark, DE (but sort of reopened) late in 2009. A couple of weeks ago, BP Solar announced that they were shutting down (photovoltaic) PV manufacturing in Frederick, MD and laying off a couple hundred people. Around the same time, Applied Materials announced that they were relocating some of their Solar Cell group to China and now this week Applied Materials indicated that their (silicon) thin film solar cell equipment product line SunFab is on thin ice. Also, this week it looks like Signet Solar is cancelling plans to build a thin film solar manufacturing plant in New Mexico and not too many days ago, auditors raised questions regarding the viability of CIGS solar cell producer Solyndra. Seems like the kind of (bad) news that we should be getting with Bush still as the President instead of Obama.

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Monday March 29, 2010 · 5:52 PM PDT

2010/03/29 · 17:52

BP Solar just announced the closing of their solar cell manufacturing plant in Frederick, Maryland.

http://www.pv-tech.org/...

BP Solar has closed down its silicon casting, wafering, and cell manufacturing facility based in Frederick, MD, effective Friday March 26. Approximately 320 positions have been eliminated out of 430 positions at the location.

Big Loss for both the local area and for clean energy technology jobs in the USA. I wonder if the mainstream media will pick up the story?

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Thursday March 18, 2010 · 3:56 PM PDT

2010/03/18 · 15:56

From yesterdays NY Times. Is the future of clean tech or 'green' research in the USA starting to look grim? Applied Materials is now building their most advanced Solar Cell research facilty in China and is sending their top guy(s)? to run and staff it.

China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Mr. Pinto is the first chief technology officer of a major American tech company to move to China. The company, Applied Materials, is one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent firms.

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Applied Materials set up its latest solar research labs here after estimating that China would be producing two-thirds of the world’s solar panels by the end of this year.

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Saturday July 18, 2009 · 1:00 PM PDT

2009/07/18 · 13:00

In a not very widely reported story, Amazon recently acknowledged remotely deleting books on customers Kindle e-book readers. Tom's Guidesaid it best:

In what is glaring irony, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were the two books that the publisher decided it no longer wanted Kindle owners to have access to. Instead of just pulling the book from the store and stopping any further sales, it had Amazon send out a kill notice to delete all those books from any device that they were purchased on.

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Saturday February 28, 2009 · 8:47 PM PST

2009/02/28 · 20:47

Unfortunately Eric Holder’s comments this week on gun control may have just doomed Obama to being a one term president and likely have jeopardized Democratic control of the House and possibly even the Senate in 2010. Fortunately Nancy immediately Pelosi piped up and signaled that the House has no plans to take up gun control legislation. However, the damage is done and many in the pro-gun community are convinced that it’s now only a matter of time until Obama takes away their 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) and as Al Gore found out in 2000 and Clinton discovered in 1994, any hint of support for gun grabbing legislation is guaranteed to elect Republicans. Hence, an assault weapon buying frenzy is currently underway with gun shows and gun stores jammed with panicked buyers.

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Sunday February 22, 2009 · 3:50 AM PST

2009/02/22 · 03:50

Possibly this has been discussed and already discounted elsewhere - but is one possible approach to mitigate the current financial crisis what could be called a financial reset?

In a sense - at least financially - erase George Bush's second term by a mandatory revaluing of all real estate to what it was worth on Jan 1, 2004.

Isn't the root cause of most of the current financial crisis the rapid explosion in housing prices during the first part of George Bush's second term - immediately followed by a collapse in those same prices during the final year or so Bush's miserable reign. So why not reset the clock financially to 2004 to undo the massive financial damage caused by re-electing George Bush?

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