pacino wrote:must suck for an R to be against education investment

TenuredVulture wrote:One thing I've learned in my months on school board is how effective quality pre-k is. Our district could easily use help with that, and it very much would be money well spent.

A proposal from Obama’s speech: “So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs.”
An earlier version of this proposal was outlined by Brookings’ Mark Muro. Here’s his summary. There’s a lot of synergy talk:
Innovation and its deployment does not happen just anywhere. It happens in places, most notably, within metropolitan regions, where firms and workers tend to cluster in close geographic proximity, whether to tap local supplier networks, draw on local workers, or profit from formal and informal knowledge transfer.
If properly channeled, these “co-location synergies,” as economist Greg Tassey has dubbed them, will ensure that value added through innovation spreads through and remains within the domestic manufacturing supply chain. Nor is this only a “soft” benefit. Such local synergies—accumulated region by region—can foster greater efficiency within and across manufacturing supply chains and add to the nation’s overall competiveness.

TenuredVulture wrote:Obama, why do you want to take food out of my child's mouth?

CalvinBall wrote:Republicans loving this immigration part. Pretty interesting. Lindsay Graham was nodding in agreement.