Visit the SOIA (Citizens of NE, IDS & ME)

[Dr. Cynic]

Hello & welcome. I'm having a town hall type q&a for you folks to see I'm not just sitting on my fat ass. I'll try & answer your questions...

[Dr. Cynic]

What about MW and PA?

Check my office.

What about MW and PA?

What about MW and PA?

As is typical with the east coast mindset, the nation ends at I-95.

If you had checked my office you would see the schedule.

[Dr. Cynic]

As Governor of the Mideast, I'd like to first thank you for doing this. Hopefully questions will be answered in this meeting that will lead to economical improvements in our nation. That being said, my question for you is this: What would recommend the Mideast Assembly do to create a stronger economy for our region and lower our high unemployment numbers?

I would think instead of focusing on abortion reductions or doing very little at all recently, you might want to press on to create green jobs. Or really any jobs. You're not writing much legislation right now, so maybe redouble your efforts to spur them to focus on regional employment measures until the stimulus can pass.

[Dr. Cynic]

Ok, MW & Pac... The floor's yours

[Dr. Cynic]

I was being facetious, Mr. SOIA. 

I wanted to ask you:  While many areas of the Midwest have low unemployment thanks to high commodity prices... would you have any recommendations for the Althing in order to help insulate the region from future commodity price falls? 

I personally think they could ride the relatively good economic growth to expand their diversity and create high tech and green energy jobs that will last beyond a fall in commodity prices.

Do you have any suggestions?

I wasn't quite sure if you were lol

I couldn't have said it better, Senator. I point them to my old hometown of Pittsburgh on how to get that accomplished. (of course a smaller scale)

[Dr. Cynic]

I think that we might want to consider training the workforce to adapt to new realities. In Pittsburgh, manufacturing died. No more steel. So the city reinvested before it lost its whole workforce & now, it's growing. Manufacturing is simply not enough of a reason to avoid retraining & reinvestment.