Next Bush Gaffe. Please! Proposed Jobs Czar outsourced 1800 jobs himself!!

[RegenerationMan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54446-2004Mar12.html

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The flap over Raimondo may be the most glaring breakdown, critics say. He is a well-respected chairman and chief executive of a prefabricated-building manufacturer. But his company -- Behlen Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Neb. -- laid off 1,180 workers from its five U.S. plants in the past three years while opening a plant in Beijing.

That was only the most recent problem. The release last month of the Economic Report of the President by the White House Council of Economic Advisers has proven to be rich fodder for Democrats, who promise it will appear in ads. First came the flap over a passage that appeared to praise the recent movement of U.S. service jobs to such low-wage countries as India: "When a good or service is produced more cheaply abroad, it makes more sense to import it than make or provide it domestically."

Then, critics turned their attention to the report's anticipation that 2004 employment would on average be 2.6 million jobs higher than last year. The secretaries of commerce and the Treasury, and then the president, quickly backed off that projection.

Finally, Democrats latched on to an obtuse question in the report, "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger . . . is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?" The point, administration economists said, was to question the practicality of congressional proposals to offer tax breaks to manufacturers. But Democrats accused the White House of wanting to reclassify burger flippers as Joe Lunchpails.


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Just like ketchup was reclassified a vegetable by Reagan to starve kids and feed millionaires.

Soon TV shows will be produced in India and China as well. How about

"LIVE FROM BANGALORE! IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"

[MrBenchley]

1. Here's one: "Bush praises man in speech on women's rights"

""Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday.
The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he".
"Definitely male," said Alistair Hodgett, spokesman for the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, whose representatives tried to see Jahmi in prison during a recent visit to Libya.
The U.S. House Committee on International Relations listed Jahmi as a 62-year-old civil engineer who was sentenced to five years in prison "after he reportedly stated during a session of the People's Conference ... that reform within Libya would never take place in the absence of a constitution, pluralism and democracy." "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040313/od_uk_nm/oukoe_bush_women

[sangha]

2. Bush withdrew this nominee because of Kerry's critiques

Bush* claims it wasn't because of Kerry, but that's an obvious lie. Who else has been hammering Bush* over this?

[izzie]

3. Sort of interesting. Someone not holding all the cards?

Maybe they got to sure of them selfs. I love the thing on 2 or 3 new people to work in a company with 14. That would be a good fix for all those people with out jobs. Bush must not be with it if they set him up for such a show.It really shows he is not in charge.