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.
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How about this FOR ONCE
SCREW THE OTHER GUY AND PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO AMERICANS!
I guess that if we really try we can outsource every office job in the US and import inexpensive labor for every non office job. Then we can all huddle around a trash can fire for warmth while we discuss the virtues of free trade with third world nations.
As far as what Bush said, perhaps it came out wrong or some of us are taking it out of context but the guy should try to be a bit more lucid when talking to the press. To me it came off as a slap in the face to all the qualified tech workers in the US who are WILLING TO WORK but cant find jobs.
At the very least Bush's statment is promoting another BIG GOVERNMENT HANDOUT that someone (Im assuming you and I) will have to pay for. Who knows, maybe all these county colleges can begin teaching Hindi and all our displaced tech workers can spend their days arranging the wire transfer of payroll checks to India.
We are CONSERVATIVES and as such do not want government interference in our lives, but as PRAGMATIC AMERICANS if there has to be government interference somewhere LET IT BE WITH THE PEOPLE OF ANOTHER NATION!
Great, another know-nothing Republican. Could we pick a different campaign message than yours? If you don't mind, I'd really like to avoid an instant replay of 1992 when this attitude caused people to desert our party by the millions and we got swept right out of power.
The H1-Bs I've worked with would do ANYTHING to keep from going back to India. They would lie on their resumes (common with H1-Bs), work massive uncompensated overtime, accept a lower salary, and are great YES men to insecure managers.
Actually, what got me re-hired was not tech skills but business ones - knowledge of particular business data, along with a broad skill set in just about every area of IT that allows me to design QA processes for anything that crosses my desk. And I do agree that some programmers simply don' keep their skills current. But that isn't what is happening here - folks with some very marketable job skills are not finding work, and there are significant job shifts across the employment spectrum that do not bode well for a robust middle class in this country. And, given the importance of a middle class for political stability, one would think the federal government would consider it to be a top interest in staunching the blood flow from this change, instead of the current policy of administering anticoagulants to it.
Well, with all the jobs being offshored, this seems like a good thing.
Why didn't you or your friend go into patent law? Of all the lawyers out there they are the ones who can't be descibed as "ambulance chasers". They actually do protect intellectual property and make a nice living at it.
Or would you rather bitch about how bad things are.
Oh yeah you're in California aren't you. Davis's ramapnt socialism in your state had nothing to do about your friends current plight, did it.
Geez...keep up with the program will ya...the pubbies are taking care of it...
Boy, you're a one-trick poster, ain't you? Once again, what is your nationality, and do you have any vested interests in the H1-B or L1 visa programs, or in outsourcing American jobs overseas?
From your link:
The United States may do away with H1-B visas delivering a knockout punch to Indian IT professionals wanting to take up jobs in the US.
A bill moved by right-wing Republican lawmaker Tom Tancredo in the US Congress to eliminate H1-B visas has every chance of being enacted, said sources.
Ah, yes, the same Tom Tancredo who is so out of favor with the White House.
That's the problem, ravingnutter - Bush needs to get to the forefront of these issues instead of ignorning them.
I say we give Bush a chance to change his mind - it's over a year before the election - with some freeper effort I think he could come around.
No, he wasn't. Jobs going overseas and technological innovations were basis of question dealing with employment. The actual question was:
"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?
This is one of his ideas. I don't think it is the best idea, and it certainly isn't the only idea. But it is part of a plan.
On the other hand, who should I vote for? I won't ever vote for a Dem, but I don't want to support Bush. Is there a Perot running this year?
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