Jobs: We don't talk enough about solutions

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com: " “I’m not worried about the country’s long-term future,” Mr. Jobs told Mr. Obama, according to one observer. “This country is insanely great. What I’m worried about is that we don’t talk enough about solutions.”

At dinner, for instance, the executives had suggested that the government should reform visa programs to help companies hire foreign engineers. Some had urged the president to give companies a “tax holiday” so they could bring back overseas profits which, they argued, would be used to create work. Mr. Jobs even suggested it might be possible, someday, to locate some of Apple’s skilled manufacturing in the United States if the government helped train more American engineers."

We don't talk enough about solutions. Not sure with this administration (Obama) it would make any difference if we did.  Obama has done nothing to specifically reform visa programs to help companies hire foreign engineers. Instead he waits and blames others.

Jobs told Mr. Isaacson: "The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done." He does do that a lot. Nothing is ever shovel-ready with him. But leaders tell us how things will get done, how we can move forward. They can tease a small element out of a large bill, and get it passed. (source:  Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal)

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