House Proceeding 03-16-10 on Mar 16th, 2010 :: 7:15:15 to 7:18:50
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John R. Carter: and what happens in our manufacturing facilities. i think we've worked ally hard in some of our legislation and we will again in our america competes legislation we're bringing now through the science and tech committee that many of us sit on, we'll be working to make sure that connection is there. that's another important piece. mr. garamendi: let m

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Speech By: John R. Carter

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John R. Carter: a brief example of that connection. the community colleges across this nation, are one of the very best places for -- places for people to get specific j training. when the community college is connected to business communities, the business community can directly affect

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John R. Carter: the educational program that that community college is providing, making the education pertinent to the employer, so that when that emplee finishes, or when that workers finishes the community college program, they are specifically ready, i was listening to this last week when i was back in california, to a local radio

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John R. Carter: station talking about the way in which the community college and the empyers together to educate unemployed construction workers, preparing them for the solar industry. .

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John R. Carter: so they could be the sails persons and the audits that are necessary. and those people would be immediately prepared. now the problem is, the community colleges are running out of money. now mr. miller, the chairman of the education and labor committee, has proposed a new piece of legislation caled the

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John R. Carter: local government jobs act. and it has $23 billion to directly go to the educational system so that they can hire the teachers and do the training and the community coleges to prepare workers for the new economy that's coming our direction. this is the kind of realy

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John R. Carter: important and useful legislation that's needed. some 250,000 teachers would be employed. i was reading in the "washington post" today, headlines, the right-hand column, thousands face furloughs, schools may lose millions.

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John R. Carter: that same headline was found in "the sacramento bee" and los angeles times in the last week. we need to have unemployed workers to be beter prepared to take jobs. the new economy kicks in. as we move to the green

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John R. Carter: technologies. there is a whole totality here. and that's what the democratic agenda provides, health care, education, purchasing power made available to small businesses, bringing new businesses online. all of these create a totality

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John R. Carter: that wil restart our economy and keep us moving. and take these workers that are now tax takers on unemployment insurance, some on welfare, using the cobra money that we provided through the american recovery act and let them become taxpayers, building our commip once again. that's our agenda.

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John R. Carter: thank you very much for bringing this small business agenda to the american public so they understand that this party, the democratic party is the party that is concerned and is willing to use the power of government