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James Carlini, MBA, is a certified Infrastructure Consultant and is President of CARLINI & ASSOCIATES, since 1986. He is also the Chairman of the Rolls-Royce Owners Club, Lake Michigan Region. His latest white paper, "Intelligent Infrastructure and Its Impact on Regional... More
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  • WHERE CAN WE PUT SKILLED WORKERS TO WORK?
    When advanced skilled workers are sitting on the sidelines, America is losing its tax base as well as its leadership positions in cutting-edge and emerging technologies.

    Although many in the media are only finding out about this now, skilled and advanced degreed workers are not finding jobs that take advantage of their skill sets.  There is a lot of talent sitting on the sidelines while companies continue to bring in cheap skilled labor through Visa programs claiming there is shortage when there isn't.

    America has always been on the cutting-edge of emerging technologies and has created new and broad-based industry segments as those technologies grow.

    The big question becomes, "Where is the next big job surge?" because many who have a lot of diversified talent are not finding work.  It's not just those coming off of the Space Program, it is everyone in many high-tech and software development areas.

    Shovel-ready projects did not work in the initial TARP projects because the segment looking for work was more in the technology and engineering fields.   Maybe shovel-ready should have been keyboard-ready to have made a real impact on the economy.

    See BLOG article:
    http://carliniscomments.com/archives/268-WHERE-IS-THE-NEXT-BIG-JOB-SURGE.html 




    Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.

    Additional disclosure: I have been writing about the changes in the dynamics of the high-tech work area for over the last decade.
    Tags: T, AA, S, X, USAE.PK, NASGF.PK, LMT, HUGH, HHC, NASA, economy, jobs creation, shovel-ready, GOP, regional economic development, TIF
    Aug 11 4:11 PM | Link | 1 Comment
  • FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY PATTON: CUT THE BUDGET BY 20% OR BE REPLACED
    “With the lack of leadership and visionaries in Washington, why not look at government from Patton’s point of view,” declares James Carlini.
     
    Last February, I wrote an article about states and municipalities needing to cut their budgets. It focused on taking a George S. Patton approach to managing administration, budgets and setting a new direction. “Cut the budget 20% or be replaced”
     
    It seems like we have to revisit these concepts again with the deadlock in the Federal budget crisis. As the first article commented:
     
    Where have all the real leaders gone? What have our business schools been cranking out in the last couple of decades? We don’t need more politically correct, we need politically accurate in decision-making roles.
     
    The same questions could be asked about our “leaders” in Congress. Where are all the innovative ideas? Where, as one person asked, are the penny pinchers? The people who are tight with money? We have all big spenders in Congress on both sides of the aisle.
     
    Politicians talk about raising taxes instead of cutting spending.  Is the debt crisis a real crisis? Or, is it just political theatre in order to push through bad legislation that will affect both businesses and individuals?
     
    It’s time to take a new approach to balancing the over-bloated federal government budget: Cut spending.

    NEW MANTRA: CUT YOUR BUDGET BY 20% OR BE FIRED

    Could you imagine General George S. Patton in Congress?

    Take a Patton-type leadership initiative to Congress and to the Washington bureaucracies, "Get the job done or be replaced". 
     
    When you think about this simple directive, it really sets the objective clearly and leaves it up to the individual and their creativity. No creativity? Well, maybe they should have never been put into that level of responsibility, or paid for it.
     
     If Congress as well as all the department and agency heads cannot find 20% waste after all these years of overspending, then they are just not "skilled enough" to hold their job.  Eliminate them and in either case, you will have trimmed the budget considerably.

    As stated in the first article: Politically correct statements have to be replaced with politically accurate assessments on agency funding, project spending and every other facet of government spending.

    KEEP THE INITIATIVE SIMPLE
     
    This CUT 20% mantra is simple enough to convey, understand and be implemented at all levels of government.  It should be applied to all our "deficit problem" states. Our Greek States as I call them (California, New York, Illinois and others) and their bloated programs as well as cities and states that are on the borderline.  
     
    Of course it may not solve everything, but it's a great and quantifiable start.
     
    HEY, CUT 20%! 
     
    Just send that message to everyone in both the House and Senate, every agency head and even the President. If they don’t accomplish that simple and direct order, ask for their resignations.
     
    CARLINI-ISM :  Learn to do more with less. So many individuals have done this, federal government should get with the program.
     
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    Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
    Tags: spending crisis, debt crisis, federal budget deficit, Congress, deficit
    Jul 21 4:02 PM | Link | Comment!
  • SMART POWER GRIDS AND SMART METERING
    As new offerings within the utilities industry start to emerge, understanding some of the supported concepts is necessary before investing in any endeavor.

    This includes investing in real estate projects that are dependent on intelligent amenities in order to attract and maintain corporate tenants in new and existing business parks.  Master planning for new developments need to include both power and network infrastructure offerings upfront instead of an afterthought after tenants have moved in.

    Here is a short overview within a column I just published in ALRROYA out of Dubai, UAE:
    http://english.alrroya.com/content/smart-power-grids




    Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.

    Additional disclosure: Wrote white paper on Intelligent Infrastructure: Insuring Security for Regional Sustainability for the US Dept. of Homeland Security (2009)
    Tags: GE, GAS, ED, WEC, NOA, UTILITIES, POWER, real estate
    Dec 12 5:50 PM | Link | Comment!
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