Bush Says Too Many People Looking For Work

[LauraK]

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Following a drop in the number of jobs in the country, President George W. Bush fretted that too many people remain unemployed and urged Congress to enact more of his agenda. ..

Noting that other economic reports in recent days have been more upbeat, Bush said, "My attitude is, is that even though some of the numbers are good, there's still too many people looking for work. And so we're going to keep working on the economy until people can find a job."

Asked if he was surprised that three large tax cuts and 12 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve haven't done more to stimulate the economy, Bush said the economy has had to overcome a series of obstacles.

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[Sagan]

1. Obstacle #1

Bush

[CO Liberal]

2. The One Thing Bush Could To To Help The Unemployment Picture....

...would be to submit his resignation.

[Catshrink]

3. He's worried because soon, he too, will be unemployed.

bye bye Jr.

[HungryLoser]

32. Not to be a kill-joy, but

Georgie will NEVER be unemployed, or rather, lacking an income. It's obvious he's made alot of corporate friends during his present regime. In fact, his income should skyrocket. That's why they call it the "Privileged Class".

[hippywife]

4. This is just....

damage control for his comments the other day about unemployment being due to a lack of a skilled workforce. (YAWN) :eyes:

[proud patriot]

5. That's right ...Welcome Underground hippywife

:hi:

[kmla]

6. Too many people looking for work?

The economy is bad?

WELL, DUHHHH!

This pinhead never fails to reinforce my opinion that he is one of the dumbest things takin' a breath today... :dunce:

[are_we_united_yet]

7. "And so we're going to keep working on the economy until people..."

can find a job."

Details? You were already "working tirelessly on the economy" (I see you've dropped the qualifier this time).

What kind and quality of jobs will they be? Probably not the same as the ones that your Corporations shipped over seas.

[punpirate]

10. Working tirelessly...

... in between starting wars, hiding documents and taking naps.

[wellst0nev0ter]

17. Oh Yeah, We Know He's Working His Tail Off For Us

That's why he's going off on his monthlong vacation in Crawford :eyes:

[Tempest]

8. Where's the jobs you promised from your tax cut, George?

Bush promised 1.4 million jobs would be created by his tax cut.

Is he now saying that he lied?

[alfredo]

19. He didn't lie.

those new jobs are yours for the taking, in India.

Of course you can always join the Army.

[mhr]

9. If It Is So Important

to him then why not cancel that month long vacation and spend his time looking for solutions.

I know the answer, "when pigs fly!"

[NYC]

11. Bush assured India that he won't allow states to interfere with

outsourcing.

[cthrumatrix]

35. I saw that....I'm sure it will be on Meet the Press Sunday (not.....)

[Mari333]

12. Moronic TWIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.costofwar.com/

[kskiska]

13. Too many people looking?

Make them stop looking to lower those numbers of the unemployed.

[tom_paine]

14. "Working on the Economy?!?"

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Other than loot the Treasury, privatize the commons, and lielielie, what has the Emperor done to "work on the economy"?

Zip. Zilcho. Nada.

Message to the Imperial Fool: You can't "keep" working on something unless you've already started working on it!

On the other hand, perhaps this is one of his Smirky Remarks, in that, they ARE working on the economy. Working to destroy it so they can buy up the pieces cheap and turn this once-proud nation into Bushistan, Third World Bushistan.

Third World Dictators don't have to worry about jobs, employement, getting caught in lies or pesky opposition.

See how we are already halfway there?

[hippywife]

16. Exactly...

...what I was thinking on the way home listening to the report on NPR. :eyes:

Thanx for the welcome, Proud Pat and everyone else who had been so kind as too welcome me in recent threads. :)

[0007]

15. Let's fire him

*

[MUAD_DIB]

21. Open Range?

Flame Broiled?

Deep Fried?

There are just too many choices to choose from.


Now where is that book "How to Serve Man" got to.

[LynneSin]

18. Hopefully in 15 months he'll be one of them too

And what I would really hope is instead of him looking for a job, he's looking for someone to protecting his ass getting attacked while in prison!

[imax2268]

20. This quote is funny...!

Noting that other economic reports in recent days have been more upbeat, Bush said, "My attitude is, is that even though some of the numbers are good, there's still too many people looking for work. And so we're going to keep working on the economy until people can find a job."

Then he goes on vacation...!

Go figure...!

[Iris]

22. well, according to reports today, the unemployment rate

has decreased because many people have just stopped looking for work.

So, see? His economic plan IS going to work someway somehow!

[MoonAndSun]

23. November 2004, bush* will be one of the ones looking for work!

n/t

[imax2268]

25. not really...

He will just ask Daddy to get him into the Carlyle Group...!

[Karenina]

39. They canned him long ago

for telling dirty jokes, taking up space and ADDING NO VALUE. Check it out.

[HungryLoser]

33. Not unless..

... we get a good Democratic candidate, I'm really not too thrilled with what's on the plate so far. And all thes millionaire presidents and politicians are soooo out of touch with what's really going on. Campaign stops in poor neigborhoods with news teams don't count

[Wonder]

24. duh that's what comes of corporate downsizing

what a fucking idiot!

[stickdog]

26. Biggest obstacle

Voodoo economics doesn't work.

[vixengrl]

27. The man is dumb as a bag of stupid.

Look at whitehouse.gov under "job creation" and it says something about extending jobless benefits--it's just plain transparent he has no clue what to do to actually create jobs. Instead of working a scheme that might "carrot and stick" industry into expanding productivity, he's playing to capital and subsidizing rich folks in the business of doing--not much. After all, if some rich guy gets a personal tax cut on his dividends, what jobs does that create? Does he get somebody new on to muck his stable or vac his pool? Nothing keeps jobs from moving overseas, nothing ties capital to "home" in the sense of keeping investments here...Martha Stewart making the perp walk wouldn't convince me that real corporate "malfeasers" are getting theirs. (See Enron, Worldcom, etc--) He keeps using terms like "grow the economy" as if this was some organic thing. I suspect nitwit Jack thinks he has some magic beans--but how does he handle this Giant failure?

Ah..right. He doesn't care. After all, how motivated are jobless and homeless people to vote or protest what he and his folks are doing?

[stickdog]

28. He's a cheap labor conservative.

Bush I = War, recession, capital flight, stagnant wages

Bush II = War, recession, capital flight, stagnant wages

Notice the trend?

[vixengrl]

29. The trend speaks for itself--and is a good part of the problem.

When you kowtow to the rich and ignore the working class, you kind of ignore that the working class out number the rich by--hell I'm no statistician--a whole bunch. To my mind, I've known a lot of people with two jobs--and if they were paid decently for the one job they liked, it would free up that other job for some other cat. NObody wants two jobs, they do it because they can't live on one! A fair wage would mean greater economic stability. After all, you keep your money close to the vest when you aren't paid enough. You spend when you're flush. Jobs are stability. Doing nothing but make the rich richer is the entree to resentment. Letting the working man get paid for what he does keeps the wheels going. Employers should realize that turnover--new guys they can get cheap, but have to train and don't do a job half as well, cost them more in the long run. And people, no matter how well-trained, who aren't paid well, and have no benefits, or inadequate benefits, are not in the right shape to do work as people well-compensated, and able to tend to their human needs. This shouldn't be considered communism or socialism--just sensible business, recognizing "humans" as an actual "resource." BUsh does not grasp this, because he never did an honest days work, or if he did, couldn't describe it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. Dumb as a bag of stupid?

That's pretty good. But I think we're talking about a whole train worth of box cars full of stupid when it comes to G DUHbya.

[area51]

34. Motivation

vixengrl said:

"After all, how motivated are jobless and homeless people to vote or protest what he and his folks are doing?"

Speaking as one of the jobless, I (& I suspect most others) are plenty motivated to vote to kick George W. Hoover's mofoing ass out of the Whitehouse & into the unemployment line.


CBS News: "Statistically speaking, it's easier to get accepted into Harvard than to get a job in this economy."

[leesa]

30. Well those selfish people better stop it right now!

Don't they know they should either lie down and starve to death, and do it quickly...or enlist in the military and support my never ending war...a magnificent opportunity

[radfringe]

36. Who will survive the Bush Recovery?

Survive
Bumper stickers too

[Snellius]

37. What a crock! Bush tries to turn everything into a "jobs program"

Tax cuts for the rich? No! It's a "jobs creation and growth" program. "Tort reform" to help out pharmaceutical firms and other major Republican contributors? No! It's a "jobs creation and growth" program. An enery bill to pay off big oil? No! It's a "jobs creation and growth" program. A cap on asbestos litigation to help out, among others, V.P. Cheney's corporation Halliburton? No! It's a "jobs creation and growth" program. And on and on. Does anyone really buy this bu**sh**.

[booksenkatz]

38. Sorry

if our job hunting is getting on your nerves, Junior. We're doing the best we can. Not all of us have rich daddies to bail us out when our positions get eliminated.

[jamesinca]

40. Mr Bush if you really cared then this would not be out there

The WH has promised India that they will outsource jobs, against states protest. I wonder if he has figured out why we have so many unemployed? does he care why we have unemployed.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=22887

[salin]

41. One trick pony bush... Tax cuts... give em time... create jobs... more

tax cuts.

Lets see in 24 hours when he goes off script

= Hitech workers are too blame for loss of jobs overseas because they don't quickly retrain (go get more degrees/or certifications)

= I could have let the economy get worse than it was... then this recovery would look bigger. (WTF? He is even suggesting that this would have been a legitimate strategy for a president? Me thinks he tips his hat a little bit about how he and Rove talk in the WH...well if we let x get worse (screw whoever gets screwed) then politically, when we do address it... the modest improvement will look BIG and WE will get the credit.

= The reason the economy hasn't really picked up is because the media got distracted all last summer focusing on the path to war. (Er - your admins daily press conferences trying to shape the debate, introduce more "evidence" (most got disproved), PUSHED the story. Now you blame the MEDIA for shaking consumer confidence for covering (and propogandizing) the stories YOUR WHITEHOUSE was putting out).

and now this statement - his apparent attempt to say... hey its not like I am as insensitive to your plight as all the above statements I have made inthe past 36 hours suggest. (insert beavis and buthead type hehehe laugh).