[IonInsights]

Democrats said his comments and the council's annual report were evidence that the Bush White House is insensitive to the plight of out-of-work Americans. Sad but true.

[Bikers4Bush]

"Bush offered no new initiatives to curb outsourcing and aides said he opposed restrictions on free trade."

Translation, he hasn't done anything about it, doesn't have a plan to do anything about it and has no intentions of doing anything about it.

So nice to see that the welfare to work programs that were put in place to get people off welfare and into jobs like, oh say answering phones at call centers are a complete waste of money since we apparently don't want to keep those jobs here.

Idiots.

[FITZ]

But I don't worry about numbers, I worry about people," Bush told students and teachers at a high school in Pennsylvania

Words aren't good enough --- instead of signing every 'free-trade' agreement to ship out American jobs, he needs to quickly do something to get jobs to stay here.

[brownsfan]

President Bush should be a man, be a true "conservative". What he should say is: Damn right we're exporting jobs. If you folks worked harder and cheaper, and didn't mind unsafe working conditions, maybe you'd keep a few. But, sucks to be you! Now, if you want to retrain yourself, make yourself valueable again, go for it! Or, start a business. But don't cry to me. It's your own damn problem, it's not government's job to worry about your job!

Quit waffling Mr. Bush! (There, did I do that right?)

[GraniteStateConservative]

All that's happened is that someone said a secret. The secret is still true, just not private.

[KantianBurke]

"President Bush distanced himself on Thursday from one of his top economic advisers who said the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to workers overseas may benefit the economy."

So much for Bush's vaunted "loyalty" towards his staffers. Guess he values them as much as he values the rest of workers in this country.

[Alberta's Child]

He narrowly lost the state in the 2000 election, and analysts say he may have hurt his chances of winning it this year when he scrapped U.S. tariffs on steel imports in December to avert a trade war with Europe.

This little item goes a long way towards explaining why it is absolutely impossible to keep everyone happy even here in the U.S. when it comes to trade issues. It also shows how careless and/or ignorant the media can often be when discussing something like the steel tariff issue relative to its impact on "factory job losses."

The reality is that many of the "factory job losses" described in this article may very well have been caused by the steel tariff, not ameliorated by it -- it all really depends on which "factory jobs" you're talking about. The tariff on steel imports certainly helped the steel industry itself, but actually hurt other industries that rely on steel as a raw material for manufacturing. There was a period of time last year when it was believed that the 2004 election would basically come down to whether the Bush administration was more interested in helping the major steel "fabricator" states (Pennsylvania and West Virginia, for example) or the major steel "user" states (Michigan and Ohio, for example).

[Alberta's Child]

On Wednesday House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois joined the bipartisan chorus of criticism from the U.S. Congress and the campaign trail, saying of Mankiw: "His theory fails a basic test of real economics."

I may with Hastert most of the time, and he may even be right on this specific point. But somehow, the notion of this former gym teacher lecturing anyone on "real economics" seems a bit absurd.

[lewislynn]

Under pressure from fellow Republicans, President Bush distanced himself...

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The (economic) numbers are good. But I don't worry about numbers, I worry about people,"

Two faced weeny. I'm getting more disgusted by this group everyday.

[OXENinFLA]

H Clinton want a "sense of the Senate concerning the outsourcing of American jobs"

This woman is EVIL.

[uncbob]

Rove and Bush BETTER get all their people together in ONE room and come up with a DECENT postion on ALL issues

This is getting PATHETIC

[lelio]

"The (economic) numbers are good. But I don't worry about numbers, I worry about people,"

Almost the exact same words used by a Democratic senator in questioning Greenspan yesterday when he was showing a letter from a gradeschool class from his state (Missouri or Mississippi?).

In it he said that while 2% chronic unemployed might be a small percentage, its a vast amount of people and people is what matters to him. Now people might laugh at that being some Democratic talking point, but its interesting to see Bush picking up on it.

[Swanks]

That's kind of laughable," spokesman Scott McClellan said, adding: "Our economic team is doing a great job."

Actually, the reverse is true. "Our economic team is doing a great job." spokesman Scott McClellan said, (That's kind of laughable)

[TheEaglehasLanded]

Visiting states that are loosing jobs on your watch and then having the guy who writes your economic outlook say hey folks Shipping your manufacturing jobs to China is good for you. I bet the local liberal media is hammering him on this one.

As Homer Simpson would say DOOOOOOOO

[stboz]

Eet comes down to these, mano.

Jou Nortes want too mauch for jour chit. We gonna take jour yobs and keeck jour butteses. Theen, we gonna start Aztlan...weethout jour "help."

Adios, suckers.

[Cacique]

ping

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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