Domestic jobs needed

So now the expert about everything, Obama, is going to solve the unemployment problem he helped create. Now the plan is to use leftover TARP monies to pay teacher, police and firefighters salaries and to build infrastructure. What happens when the money runs out?

Have we produced a salable product we can make a profit off of to reinvest? No.

When the funds dry up, the teachers, police and firefighters will then be laid off anyway, and our national debt will be the worse. Has anyone been to Costco or Wal-Mart lately to see how much of the merchandise comes from China? This is a result of Bill Clinton’s most-favored-nation trade status granted to China and Bush’s continuance of that suicidal policy.

A recent letter writer touted we should let China manufacture goods as we specialize in tourism such as Disneyland. Yeah, right, high-pay manufacturing jobs go and low-pay tourism stays. We need to make it unprofitable for American companies to go abroad and profitable to stay here.

John Weyant

Priest River