And once again, you are being dishonest about the context. Bush was talking about retraining programs for textile workers and factory assembliers, but you want to keep pretending that he was talking about your sacred cow of high-tech IT jobs.
And once again, you are being dishonest about the context. Bush was talking about retraining programs for textile workers and factory assembliers, but you want to keep pretending that he was talking about your sacred cow of high-tech IT jobs.
Uh, he was talking about technology overtaking workers. He was talking about a $3,000 grant and support for community colleges. Now, what kind of tech job will someone with no prior IT experience and $3,000 of community college coursework be qualified to do? The exact same low-level IT work that is being most heavily outsourced.
but you want to keep pretending that he was talking about your sacred cow of high-tech IT jobs.
Gee, Southack, the entire premise of allowing manufacturing jobs to be carted overseas was that the manufacturing workers could become high-paid tech workers with some training. Now, even experienced IT workers with Master's degrees are having trouble finding jobs. How is the manufacturing worker with 15 hours of community college coursework going to also find a tech job?
You're not making a lick of sense, and if you're representative of the mindset of the GOP spinners, I'm starting to get really, really worried about 2004. You'd do a lot better if you started having some empathy for those facing these problems, instead of trying to prove that they're just delusional.