Funny how things change in just a few months.
Back in January, John McCain was pessimistic about the future of Michigan jobs. Maybe it was the effect of Michigan winter weather on this guy from the Valley of the Sun, but prior to the Michigan primary in January, McCain said the Michigan auto worker jobs were gone forever.
But now that he hopes to carry Michigan in November, McCain is much more optimistic about Michigan's future. At a campaign stop on Wednesday (May 7, 2008),instead of telling people basically to suck it up, McCain was full of ideas about how to create jobs in the auto industry, according to the Detroit News.
The newspaper reported:
"'You have to care for displaced workers, give them education and training that works so they have another chance to be part of the economy,'" McCain said.
"'And you invest in the cradle of the auto industry, new technologies, such as the battery that lets you take a car 100 miles before you have to plug it in. We have to provide all the incentives, for investment in pure R&D as well as R&D tax breaks, worker retraining and education and reduction in any taxes that may give other areas an unfair advantage.'"
What changed from January to May, besides the fact that now McCain is competing not for the the narrow Republican primary vote, but in the field of the much broader electorate which includes many blue collar workers?
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