The Carroll Standard

Taylor: Ending Wars, Creating Jobs

Good evening! As the annual Labor Day weekend approaches, jobs continue to be the #1 concern, both locally and nationwide, of all classes and ages, and rightly so: if you don't have a job, there's not much you can do to better your life.

As a citizen and a voter myself, I've always been leery when individual poltiicians or political parties claim credit for their "jobs created." That having been said, job creation---or the lack thereof---clearly is the job of both business and government working together, hopefully. I can see several  practical ways to do this.

Since 2006, I've been calling for an end to all our overseas wars as one immediate way to do this, by shifting the vast sums of money spent on them to our domestic, home front market that desperately needs those funds instead: building roads, highways, railroads, schools, hospitals, homes, workplace buildings, and the like. This would put millions to work.

This is, in fact, what we DID after World War II, and the result was that---by 1960---America was enjoying the greatest postwar economic boom in the history of the world. This is what we need to do again, and now. To do this, we will have to reinvent America's heavy industrial manufacturing base that politicians of both major parties foolishly let fall by the wayside from the Reagan years onward to now.

The theory that the American economy could exist without such a base---and only as a service economy---has been proven completely false by the downward march of events. To reverse this disastrous course is what I intend to do as your elected United States Senator, starting with the next session of the Congress in January 2011.

I'll have more tomorrow. Good night!***

--Blaine Taylor, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .'; document.write(''); document.write(addy_text48441); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.