[Southack]

"Southack, what part of "I fully understand what you're saying..." do YOU not understand? Bush is still stuck on last decade's big governmental solution when this decade has different problems. The problem is not a lack of training - we have millions of fully qualified techies out of work. The problem is that jobs are going overseas by the millions - and all you can do is belittle those who believe that destroying our middle class is NOT a good thing."

No, I stand by what I said. There are people who are EAGER to criticize Bush for so little as repeating a question back to a reporter, a question that was about people who had been laid off from textile and manufacturing plants and what Bush was doing to help them, that was rapidly misconstrued as Bush not caring about high-tech workers seeing top-paying jobs disappear, by the way.

Sheesh...

[dirtboy]

There are people who are EAGER to criticize Bush for so little as repeating a question back to a reporter, a question that was about people who had been laid off from textile and manufacturing plants and what Bush was doing to help them, that was rapidly misconstrued as Bush not caring about high-tech workers seeing top-paying jobs disappear, by the way.

Dude, he didn't just rephrase it, he said "I completely understand" - the problem any more is not training, it's that the jobs are going away. You can train someone for a year to be a customer support rep with good computer skills to go with it, but if most of the support jobs have been shipped overseas by the time they graduate, what friggin' good does it do? I have NEVER heard Bush say that we should end H1-B visas, L1 visas and come up with ways to make it more attractive for companies to keep jobs here instead of shipping them overseas.