whatever happened to the "Jobs Czar"?

[Cocoa]

Was I just imagining that, or did Bush last summer, maybe when he was at the pig farm, appoint an assistant to the Commerce Secretary that was to be focussed solely on creating jobs.

So, where is he?

[bryant69]

1. Well, President Bush does have a lot of pigs to slop

So, maybe he's still focusing on that. After all, until each CEO is making as much money as possible, is there really time to focus on the workers?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Danocrat]

2. Unemployed n/t

[camero]

3. He lost his job.

Had to send it overseas ya know. :crazy:

[Warpy]

7. No such luck

You can bet he's sitting in a beautifully decorated office figuring out how to Enron the unumployment numbers over and above the standard operating procedure of failing to count people whose bennies have run out...and collecting a salary every month that would support you or me for a year.

[camero]

8. a year or more

:crazy:

[BiggJawn]

4. The Unemployment Bolsheviks shot him and dumped him down a well...

Now 30 years from now, we'll have some frumpy middle-aged woman claiming to be the "Jobs Anastasia"...

[Kurt Remarque]

5. overthrown by job-hating bolsheviks

[cryofan]

6. Off With His Head!

!!

[cosmicdot]

9. just another publicity stunt ... all talk, no walk ... all hat, no cattle

can't find a 'name' yet

Fuzzy Economic Thinking; Job Czar for the Jobless

September 12, 2003 | Page 12


AT LEAST he can say he created one job. Last week, George W. Bush--under increasing pressure for presiding over an economic black hole for U.S. workers--announced that he was appointing a "jobs czar."

The not-so-high-powered title for the still unnamed "czar" is assistant secretary of commerce to oversee the manufacturing sector of the economy--in other words, another invisible bureaucrat to be wheeled out for public relations purposes only. The announcement was an obvious attempt to draw attention away from yet more dismal employment statistics--and Bush’s attempt to rip off millions of workers by denying them overtime pay.

http://www.socialistworker.org/2003-2/467/467_12_Jobs.shtml

Pinkerton: Those factory jobs are gone for good


By James P. Pinkerton
September 10, 2003

~snip~

On Labor Day, Bush pledged to create a "jobs czar." Yet it soon turned out that there was less than met the eye -- and then, nothing at all. First off, the czarship was an assistant secretary post at the Commerce Department, one of 12 assistant secretaries at that cabinet agency -- each one lower on the chain of command than the six undersecretaries, not to mention the deputy secretary, who reports to the secretary. How much clout will such a fourth-tier "czar" wield? And then, to top it off, it turned out that the Bushies weren't really creating a new position at all, but merely renaming an existing assistant secretaryship.


~snip~

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/091003/opi_0910030025.shtml

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