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In reply to the discussion: Cheney backs Obama on drones [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)some of it, re trade Obama has helped increase Americas trade almost triple the exports from the past 5 years.
I don't know about the world bank and currencies, what can the President do about that? world banks pretty powerful and they seem to do whatever they want.
I think American businesses do 'sell' much services to other countries like our oil companies, mining all of them have for 100 years or more.
Obama has been trying to have infrastructure improvements using Federal money to contractors. Problem is the contractors want the Federal money but they want to import cheap visa workers rather than hire Americans for the jobs. The contracts are there but they must hire American workers.
The states are the ones who raise the minimum wage, they will not because the base pay of foreign visa workers is based off the states minimum wage.
President Obama has asked Congress to raise the Federal minimum wage from 7.25 an hour to 12? an hour. You know Congress so I doubt our federal employees starting pay will increase any time soon.
A good list though. Be better to break it down into the 50 or so issues and try to deal with each separate