Posted on 04/18/2011 8:39:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jesse Jackson, Jr. blames the iPad for ‘eliminating thousands of American jobs’ Daniel Keylin - The Daily Caller 41 mins ago
On Friday, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) took the House floor and lambasted Apple’s iPad, saying the tablet was “probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs.”
Jackson expressed general outrage over the potential of a paperless society that the iPad threatens to create. “What becomes of publishing companies and publishing company jobs? What becomes of bookstores and libraries, and all of the jobs associated with paper? Well, in the not-too-distant future, such jobs simply won’t exist,” he said.
The congressman, who earlier in the speech admitted to being an iPad owner, criticized Apple CEO Steve Jobs for producing the tablets in China, which he believes is contributing to the nation’s unemployment problem and preventing the nation from achieving “sustained full production.”
However, Jackson’s recent rant on the iPad seems to contradict statements he made just last month.
“How many people would be put to work building roofs and designing classrooms and providing every student with an iPod and a laptop?” Jackson said during a March 2nd House floor speech.
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this has always been the case with advancing technology and new inventions... but it's always been the case that other "new types" of jobs come along... that's progress... my sister was lamenting not too long ago about how awful it is that bookstores were closing down (Borders filing bankruptcy)... she was going on and on about how this means people are not reading... it doesn't mean that at all... there are other ways to buy books... i buy almost all of our books online... cheaper... easier... and lately, i've been taking out more library books (some online, too) because money is tighter now than before...
Actually. it’s the hispanics they hate the most. As an L.A. resident, it’s based on experience and my maternal grandmother was Asian. The stories I could tell you..
Mark
“... What becomes of bookstores and libraries, and all of the jobs associated with paper?...”
PAPER? PAPER? Aren’t these the same people who scream that businesses should “SAVE THE TREES” and only issue E-Statements (no more paper statements in the mail)? Aren’t these the same people who only want you to use one square of toilet paper? Aren’t these the same people who want an electronic medical record to save paper?
Does anyone besides me smell some HYPOCRASY?
I don’t know if you’re even reading the site during your hiatus Bill but if you are you have some serious willpower!
Lots of neo-luddite lunatic stuff is cropping up in the “progressive” movement. “Socialist”, “fascist” or “retarded” are really the only words that accurately describe them. Based on dictionary definitions they are neither “progressive” nor “liberal”.
Look at their deep hatred of GM crops.
I love seeing Jack@ss Jr. talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Ipads “kill jobs” and are thus evil, but he owns one, and he wants the government to buy every kid in America one! What a clown.
BTW Jess I don’t have one. If you want to cleanse your soul you can mail yours to me.
The Dems are schizophrenic on this. On one hand, they worry about “losing jobs” in the paper pushing industries.
On the other they talk about “saving the trees” and “going green by cutting out statements, etc”.
Crazies.
J. J. Jr. certainly thinks like a Jr.
Last I heard there were over 300,000 apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPods.
Okay J. J. Jr., people are getting what for creating those apps? Insert Jeopardy music here...
That’s right J. J. Jr., they’re getting pad for creating those apps.
These electronic devices have made possible a whole new industry. They also provide a gateway for other businesses to become successful based on the mobile market-place.
In the electronic era, there was bound to come a time when the physical book became passe’.
I personally prefer the paper hard-bound book. Would it be realistic for me to think that books would continue to be published that way in the electronic age? Of course not.
J. J. Jr., stick to things you know about, like race baiting and corporate blackmail.
If we allow FORD, what will happen to the blacksmiths, the buggy makers and the whip manufactures? All those jobs - GONE. Stop progress - march backwards with flags flying high. Join Jesse and the 'stupid' party...
We must stop Rearden Metal.
Jesse has a show on a digital cable station on Saturday nights.
He was counting on Democrats ramming through a cap-and-trade bill to tax the crap out of us middle classers and pay for those new green energy union plants to replace the 1960s-1970s union factories and plants in the cities. To make this work he expected trade tariffs so that those jobs wouldnt flee to other countries (or even states) as the others did. Washington would directly control the money to make sure no state can take advantage of the fact that they can work more efficiently than others.
If only the Reid Senate ahd passed C+T in 2009 it would all be different :)
Ever see a ~ 1993 movie with Devito and Gregory Peck starring called ‘Other People's money’ ? The best part of movie is the competing (visions) speeches at the end. One of Devito’s best moments on camera.
DeVito’s speech from Other People's Money
This company is dead.
I didn't kill it. Don't blame me.
It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered and a miracle occurred . . . and the yen did this and the dollar did that . . . and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead.
You know why?
Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence.
We're dead, all right. We're just not broke.
And do you know the surest way to go broke?
Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure.
You know, at one time there must have been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw.
Now, how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company?
You invested in a business, and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence—let's have the decency—to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.
“But we can't,” goes the prayer. “We can't, because we have a responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. What will happen to them?”
I got two words for that: who cares?
Care about them? Why? They didn't care about you. They sucked you dry. You have no responsibility to them. For the last ten years, this company bled your money.
Did this community ever say, “We know times are tough. We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer”? Check it out. You're paying twice what you did ten years ago.
And our devoted employees who have taken no increases for the past three years . . . are still making twice what they made ten years ago.
And our stock, one-sixth what it was ten years ago.
Who cares?
I'll tell you.
Me.
I'm not your best friend. I'm your only friend.
I don't make anything? I'm making you money.
And lest we forget, that's the only reason any of you became stockholders in the first place. You want to make money. You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fried chicken, or grow tangerines! You wanna make money!
I'm the only friend you've got. I'm making you money.
Take the money. Invest it somewhere else. Maybe . . . maybe you'll get lucky, and it'll be used productively. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves.
Somebody ought to tell JJjr how many cell phones are made in the USA.
New technology always puts people out of work.
How many livery stable operators or steam locomotive firemen are there, Jesse Jr?
That is a really good movie. Thanks for the remind.
Trump is sucking them in from all corners.
yes! thanks for the reminder! that was terrific...
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