Obama will focus on community colleges when he talks about job retraining in Michigan today at 3:40 p.m. eastern. It's likely to be live streamed at cnn.com or msnbc.com. Warren, Mich. Mayor Jim Fouts says Obama has to do what he has done--be a cheerleader for American products.
When President Obama speaks today at Macomb Community College, he is expected to focus on job retraining and will outline policy specific to community colleges.Listen to Fouts speak here. He says he voted for Obama but is disenchanted. He says Obama was hijacked and compromise by some Harvard person. Huh? Fouts hates NAFTA and says retraining is a joke.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts has been speaking out on Obama's policies. Fouts tells WWJ that the President needs to refocus on trade deals that take jobs from an already highly-skilled workforce in Michigan.
"Job retraining is kind of a joke if you're going to retrain people for jobs that no longer exist. If you're going to retrain jobs for people in Michigan related to the auto industry, those jobs have already been hijacked by the fact the federal government has allowed them to move to China or Mexico," Fouts said.
Warren -- President Barack Obama is expected to announce today an initiative to invest $12 billion in community colleges nationwide over the next 10 years.
White House officials say the move will help Obama achieve his goal of increasing enrollment by 5 million students by 2020, bringing the total to 11 million students.
He is expected to unveil the plan during a speech at Macomb Community College's South Campus in Warren during a short stop in Michigan, which has the nation's highest unemployment rate at 14.1 percent, driven by the steep decline in manufacturing jobs precipitated by the downturn in the auto industry. Read more at Detroit News
