Commerce official to push CT trade plan

By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Mar 20, 2010 | In News, President Barack Obama | 9 feedbacks »

Middletown, Conn. (AP) – The deputy U.S. Commerce secretary will be stopping in Connecticut to announce a trade initiative he says could create 2 million jobs.

The initiative by President Barack Obama calls for doubling the nation’s exports over the next five years.

Deputy secretary Dennis Hightower is scheduled to appear Monday morning at Middletown’s Export Assistance Center with Congressman Joe Courtney. Hightower is one of many trade officials Obama is
deploying to announce the initiative.

The Commerce Department oversees the Export Assistance Center, which helps companies with trade issues, including increasing international sales and meeting buyers.

Commerce officials say increasing exports will create high-paying jobs in manufacturing, services and agriculture.

Comment from: succeeded in the past USA [Visitor]
Thanks to government policy over the past 20 years we have very few manufacturing jobs left. So what manufacturing jobs are these idiots talking about. All we have left is a service economy that can not maintain the rapid increase in government jobs.

Folks wake up we are in trouble and the Obama policies are failing...... AND making things worse.... where is Reagan when we need him most.....
03/20/10 @ 16:58
Comment from: Joke [Visitor]
I feel the end is near for this country if the Obamacare passes tomorrow.
03/20/10 @ 17:38
Comment from: Proud Liberal [Visitor] Email
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The rebublicans are to blame. The jobs all went to mexico and then to 3rd world after that. It was all baby bush. He shiped jobs out of America like a fire sale. President Obama will fix things. We will redistrubte the wealth back to what it was before baby bush.
03/20/10 @ 19:26
Comment from: Janie [Visitor]
Doesn't seem to coincide with the ABC story recently about the wind tunnels and where the money went to support them. This created jobs not for America tho. Sen. Schumer and Congress demanded Obama stop this practice - to quote ABC "An investigation by ABC News and the Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 79 percent of the program's money has gone to foreign companies, money that Schumer said was "federal tax dollars, the stimulus, which was sold as jobs in America."
Proud Liberal- guess you haven't read any news lately.


03/20/10 @ 21:20
Comment from: Passing Thru [Visitor]
Proud Liberal you sir are an azzclown. Manufacturing jobs leave because the cost of labor is cheaper elsewhere. Obama gonna fix everything, pay my mortgage, put gas in my car! lol idiots
03/21/10 @ 07:58
Comment from: CT Mother [Visitor]
Sorry but jobs started leaving this country before Bush! If I owned a company and was getting taxed to death I'd move it elsewhere to where I could afford to do business and keep my company profitable. Just common sense.
03/21/10 @ 09:51
Comment from: Hosed by the system [Visitor]
Instead of friggin worring about jobs for "exporting" this damn country better get BACK the jobs we lost just to keep this country going..........

this "globalization" BS is K I L L I N G us................
03/21/10 @ 13:57
Comment from: Todd [Visitor]
Again more of the "Moral Majority" with their name calling and insults. Gotta love it!

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