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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames The iPad For Killing Jobs
RealClearPolitics.com ^ | 4/15/2011 | Unattributed

Posted on 04/15/2011 3:33:12 PM PDT by BfloGuy

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), who admits to owning an iPad, blames the Apple Inc. product for "eliminating thousands of American jobs."

"A few short weeks ago I came to the House floor after having purchased an iPad and said that I happened to believe, Mr. Speaker, that at some point in time this new device, which is now probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs. Now Borders is closing stores because, why do you need to go to Borders anymore? Why do you need to go to Barnes & Noble? Buy an iPad and download your newspaper, download your book, download your magazine," Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL, Chicago) said on the House floor Friday afternoon.

Ironically, it was only last month that Rep. Jackson was promoting the Apple iPad and Amazon on the House floor.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: apple; ignorance; jessejacksonjr; stevejobs
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To: martin_fierro

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

That’s all I’m gonna say.


21 posted on 04/15/2011 4:11:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: Hardraade

I don’t know who’s dumber, this guy or the people who keep voting for him.


22 posted on 04/15/2011 4:13:23 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Rebelbase

That’s a pretty terse historical marker.


23 posted on 04/15/2011 4:41:34 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: BfloGuy
He's close.

Actually it was the teleprompter which cost this country millions of jobs. Without the teleprompter Obama would never have been elected.

24 posted on 04/15/2011 4:47:36 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: BfloGuy

LOL! Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) is a latter-day Luddite! Maybe he should sponsor a bill that outlaws all devices capable of supplanting books and newspapers, naturally exempting members of Congress of course. The new law would outlaw all portable devices as well as all PCs of all types. There, Jesse, that should fix things right up!


25 posted on 04/15/2011 5:02:14 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff! "Anybody but Obama in 2012!")
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To: Inyo-Mono
What happened to newspaper boys with the bags of papers on their handlebars?

They grew up and became Encyclopedia salesmen.

26 posted on 04/15/2011 5:27:27 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Jagmo’s son.


27 posted on 04/15/2011 5:28:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: martin_fierro

Dang tech stuff! Even to use an iPad, you have to know the “ABCs” and “123s” — You can’t ‘spec’ folks to learn all that racis’ stuff!


28 posted on 04/15/2011 5:34:14 PM PDT by TXnMA (America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
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To: BfloGuy

The trash Himself represents largely never set foot in a bookstore, anyway.


29 posted on 04/15/2011 5:48:40 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: BfloGuy

Did anyone ask Jerk Jr how many pcs (and ipads) he has?


30 posted on 04/15/2011 5:59:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: GladesGuru

Perhaps if all the unemployed from borders would move to China and make iPads then we could solve the whole problem. I am sure they would love everything about china except that 1 child per couple thing and that going to work thing.
Problem solved!


31 posted on 04/15/2011 6:01:14 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (John McCain is a proud Ted Kennedy conservative!)
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To: BfloGuy

Well, halfwits need representation too!


32 posted on 04/15/2011 6:03:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: BfloGuy

Well the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, does it? Jr. is as dumb as his old man, and that’s quite an achievement.

And Jr.’s not much smarter than Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Dunce, TX) who said this week on Fox News that without more spending our children would be “running around with no shoes, no clothes, eating off the ground and drinking water that’s not safe.”

It’s frightening that either of these morons is eligible to vote, let alone cast a vote in Congress.

Pray for our Republic (what’s left of it).


33 posted on 04/15/2011 6:07:31 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: BfloGuy; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 50mm; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
Jesse Jackson, JR. Thinks the iPad is responsible for unemployment of thousands of Americans! PING!

Please, No Flame Wars, Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!

Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
 PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

 


Apple iPad Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

34 posted on 04/15/2011 8:18:25 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: BfloGuy

Hey dumbass it’s called technology! Maybe we should have stuck with the horse and buggy too??? Idiot. I wonder if he returned his iPad?


35 posted on 04/15/2011 9:03:04 PM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: BfloGuy

This crook shouldn’t be reading from an iPad, he should be reading the scribblings on the walls of his prison cell and the tattoos from his cellmates backside.


36 posted on 04/15/2011 9:31:23 PM PDT by Gator113 (I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Swordmaker

37 posted on 04/15/2011 9:34:38 PM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Swordmaker

I can only hope that the iPad would be the cause of Jesse’s unemployment.


38 posted on 04/15/2011 10:28:36 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: SoothingDave
That’s a pretty terse historical marker.

Beats what they had planned:

Stuff.
Made here.
No longer.

39 posted on 04/15/2011 11:18:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Swordmaker

Apple products must be pretty good if they can enable an imbecile like Jesse Jackson Jr. to be tech savvy or at least talk like he is. Prolly the latter


40 posted on 04/16/2011 12:45:09 AM PDT by dennisw (nzt - "works better if you're already smart")
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