Baseless speculation.
"The problem is not just with the feds, it's at all levels, and government is loathe to downsize, so middle-class taxpayers will be faced with increasing tax bills..." - dirtboy
More groundless speculation.
Posted on 07/31/2003 11:53:32 AM PDT by Florida_Irish
During a Wednesday morning (July 30th) press conference, President Bush was asked a question about jobs going overseas as a result of technological innovation. His response was:
"I fully understand what you're saying. In other words, as technology races through the economy, a lot of times worker skills don't keep up with technological change."
Many people have taken his response to mean that unemployment in the high-tech sector is the result of American workers who allowed their skills to become obsolete. This is an unacceptable explanation.
(Excerpt) Read more at capwiz.com ...
As evidenced by the threads here on Free Republic. We are supposed to be the "conservative base" for the Republicans. That many here are having second thoughts about voting Republican in 2004 should be keeping the various party hacks awake nights.
Actually, that's not too far off from what the reality of the end result of all this "jobs, we don't need no steeking jobs" mentality in the U.S. Complete Third Worldization.
So you figure whoever ends up on the Democrats side will do any damn better!? You truly think THEY have anything for you? That would be the only reason you'd vote for them.
Going back to the "implosion", it was something that a trained horse could have predicted, behind people throwing money for things as foolish as selling ice to Eskimos on the web. Too many people and too much money being thrown at too many idiotic schemes; which lead to the implosion. You can't blame Bush for it, nor for not having a solution to it.
The only thing I can agree with you on is his spending of too damn much money.
The Patriot Act would have come about on the heels of 9/11 no matter who was in the Oval Office, and the free trade would have probably accelerated even more with Gore in there.
So ultimately, it sounds like pure sour grapes, and a convienent whipping post.
Because that was the problem last decade. This decade, you can have the best technical skills in the world, but your job can be outsourced overseas and taken by someone making 20 percent of your income. So do all of us tech workers take 80 percent pay cuts and still pay mortgages and property taxes and car payments? And how do we re-train manufacturing workers to be tech workers when the very jobs they will be targeted towards are the jobs that are going overseas in droves?
My company is almos 2/3rds H1-B employees, while there are plenty of Americans with the skills looking for work. We also recently cut 14 employees about half of whose jobs are now being done by someone in the Philippines.
What we need is business investment that will employ those people. W's mistake is he's spent so much time villifying business and investment, at the expense of feeding cancerous government growth.
W's only hope is that some Republicans in congress made the last tax cut more friendly to investors and business. News today says that business spending and investment is up for the first time in three years.
Though you are a NEWBIE and maybe even a troll ... I absolutely agree with your statement. We as a collective society are selling and giving away our birthright for an easy buck. It will lead to our demise as a republic.
Hey lay off my adopted Home Town! Cleveland Rocks like no other and I would love living there! I live in southern Ohio and spend a good deal of time in Cleveland during Football Season!
Depends will they want to do any better, no.. Will the Republicans in the House let them do any better *ding*. The republicans have let bush spend far more money than they would have let Gore spend.
If I had to pick between Bush/Gore I would pick buh, when you take into account seperation of powers Gore does not look so bad...
But many of the posts here on this thread have been an over-reaction to what the President said in the press conference. The article only quoted 1/3 of the entire answer... and now, by god... the President is practically telling the worker to "eat cake"... no hysteria or hyperbole there... LOL!
Baseless speculation.
"The problem is not just with the feds, it's at all levels, and government is loathe to downsize, so middle-class taxpayers will be faced with increasing tax bills..." - dirtboy
More groundless speculation.
In context, this statement DOES NOT SAY what the article suggests. In his statement, Bush is not just addressing the Tech sector - in fact, the question does not specifically address the Tech sector, but addresses the job market as a whole with attention to those who feel they are getting "left behind"...
Q "Thank you, Mr. President. Staying with that theme, although there are some signs of improvement in the economy, there are sectors in the work force who feel like they're being left behind. They're concerned about jobs going overseas, that technology is taking over jobs. And these people are finding difficulty finding work. And although you're recommitted yourself to your tax cut policy, do you have any ideas or any plans within the administration of what you might do for these people who feel like there are fundamental changes happening in the work force and in the economy?"
THE QUESTION IS DIRECTED AT MANUFACTURING, NOT AT THE TECH SECTOR. Likewise, Bush's answer is directed to the question.
THE PRESIDENT: Sure. Listen, I fully understand what you're saying. In other words, as technology races through the economy, a lot of times worker skills don't keep up with technological change. And that's a significant issue that we've got to address in the country. I think my idea of reemployment accounts makes a lot of sense. In essence, it says that you get $3,000 from the federal government to help you with training, day care, transportation, perhaps moving to another city. And if, within a period of time, you're able to find a job, you keep the balance as a reemployment bonus. I know the community colleges provide a very important role in worker training, worker retraining. I look forward to working with our community colleges through the Department of Education, coordinate closely with states, particularly in those states in which technology is changing the nature of the job force. I've always found the community college -- and this is from my days as the governor of Texas -- found the community college to be a very appropriate place for job training programs because they're more adaptable, their curriculums are easier to change, they're accessible. Community colleges are all over the place. And -- but you're right. I mean, I think we need to make sure that people get the training necessary to keep up with the nature of the jobs, as jobs change.
NOTHING IN THIS ANSWER IS DIRECTED AT THE TECH COMMUNITY.
Once again, someone is lying. Once again, the same people who brought you the guest worker program, who sent the jobs overseas, and who brought this whole mess upon us - THE DEMOCRATS - are seeking to pin this on Bush. And they can only do it by lying about it.
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