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Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment
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Posted on 06/14/2011 8:23:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Edited on 06/14/2011 8:35:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren't hiring are not because of his policies, it's because the economy is so automated.


(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atm; automation; economy; obama
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I'm speechless.......
1 posted on 06/14/2011 8:23:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

As we sink deeper and deeper into recovery...


2 posted on 06/14/2011 8:25:22 AM PDT by frogjerk (Liberalism: The ideology of envy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If only the government could be automated.


3 posted on 06/14/2011 8:26:07 AM PDT by SkyDancer (It's not the police that protect our rights, it's our military)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s time to outlaw ATMs!

And hire special government-subsidized SEIU tellers in their place.


4 posted on 06/14/2011 8:27:04 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver

This sucks at telling stories.

Crap analogy.


5 posted on 06/14/2011 8:27:26 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Sub-Driver
ATMs: doing the banking jobs that Americans won't do.

Remember when he blamed under-inflated tires for high gasoline prices?

6 posted on 06/14/2011 8:27:46 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy sucks at telling stories.

Crap analogy.

“fixed”


7 posted on 06/14/2011 8:27:50 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Sub-Driver

“A dingo ate my recovery!”


8 posted on 06/14/2011 8:28:13 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is pretty accurate. Unskilled workers who perform simple tasks are no longer needed in many industries.

If you look at unemployment, high school dropouts have a 25% unemployment rate, while college graduates have a 6% unemployment rate.


9 posted on 06/14/2011 8:28:28 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Sub-Driver

When you can’t blame Bush for the economy you created, blame inanimate machinery...

But if memory serves, ATMs existed all through the Bush years without this problem... Hmmmmmm....


11 posted on 06/14/2011 8:28:44 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Cicero

Wait until he hears about online banking!!!


12 posted on 06/14/2011 8:30:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Sub-Driver

and yet he wants to train more Engineers to design things like ATMs, Kiosks and other automated technology...what an ass


13 posted on 06/14/2011 8:31:13 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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I'm speechless.......

Well, I'm glad he isn't. The more he makes idiotic remarks like this, the more he digs a hole for himself.

14 posted on 06/14/2011 8:31:36 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: xp38

And teleprompters now do the job a human President had to do...


15 posted on 06/14/2011 8:32:19 AM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: Sub-Driver

Somebody will have to modify the Wikipedia page on ATMs to show the first one being installed after 2008.....


16 posted on 06/14/2011 8:33:01 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Sub-Driver

“There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers.”

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And, per Obozo, this is a bad thing? The Kenyan is blaming small and big business owners for unemployment by blaiming them for not hiring unnecessary workers?

Obammie really is delusional!

And this is not the first time Obama has blamed business owners.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2011/February/Obama-Businesses-Must-Hire-to-Boost-Economy-/

http://moodyeyeview.com/2011/05/12/obama-wants-companies-to-step-up-and-hire-after-knocking-down-small-business/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/05/obama-businesses-are-resp_n_819077.html


17 posted on 06/14/2011 8:33:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bring back typewriters!!!!


18 posted on 06/14/2011 8:33:43 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: proxy_user

Indeed. Make the price of hiring them well beyond the value of the work, and cheaper alternatives will be found. Some jobs just aren’t worth 2 gallons of gas per hour.


19 posted on 06/14/2011 8:33:56 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Sub-Driver

A far better example would be the automated checkout lanes at stores, but I see his point, we need fewer workers.


20 posted on 06/14/2011 8:33:56 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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