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Published Saturday, January 28, 2012 in Opinion
Can job promises be kept?
The jobless rate has fallen, but millions of Americans are still unemployed. The National Association of Business Economics survey revealed American businesses showed growth in 2011 but no job hiring now or in the near future.
An editorial in The Newnan Times-Herald stated the future looks promising for jobs in Coweta but gave no future examples of the long-term jobs needed to keep the general population of Coweta from leaving to find jobs elsewhere.
Gov. Nathan Deal's support for the port expansion in Savannah, which this newspaper supports, is having problems proving the statement of job creation.
The Keystone Pipeline jobs creation numbers are not holding true. U.S. Chamber of Commerce is claiming 250,000 jobs, congressional leaders are claiming tens of thousands of jobs. But TransCanada, the company building the pipeline, revised and said only 1,500 to 2,000 temporary jobs.
Promising jobs in this day of a slow economy and an election year is like the last phrases of a Robert Frost poem: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep."
Let's hope promises can be kept.
Rick Page
Newnan
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