HYPOCRISY ALERT! Bush wants $1 billion to employ Iraqis - makes major cuts to US job programs!

[RiverStone]

NYT
1/6/07

President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/world/middleeast/07prexy.html?em&ex=1168405200&en=fdde356de88d4288&ei=5087%0A


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Bush FY 2007 Budget Calls for Major Cuts and Consolidation in All Major Employment and Training Programs

Effective and meaningful job training programs and income support for jobless workers combined with job search assistance are key components of a comprehensive good jobs strategy. This has never been truer, as the nation has struggled with two years of job loss followed by three years of inadequate growth, real wages that are lower today than they were four years ago and the loss of millions of good paying jobs to trade and offshoring.

These troubling labor market trends have only re-emphasized the importance of and the need for aggressive investment in our national job training and jobless worker programs. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush’s 2007 budget proposal not only fails to make these pro-jobs programs a priority, it once again calls for major cuts and consolidation in the nation’s major employment and training programs.

Cuts to Current WIA and Employment Service Programs for FY 2007

Total inflation-adjusted cuts during the Bush Admin: - $2.4 billion (-31.3 percent)
Total inflation-adjusted cuts compared to FY 2006: -$895 million (-14.3 percent)

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/bushwatch/2007budget.cfm

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Umm...

:think:


What about this does not make sense!? :sarcasm:

Now I'm all for providing Iraqis with a jobs program to help rebuild hope and establish a working infrastructure; I just wonder why the same priorities don't seem to exist in your budget for American's Mr. Bush!?

What hypocrisy! :grr: Answer that please.

[MichiganVote]

1. Its easy to understand. If you count yourself among the elite or neo-cons

any country anywhere that will give you what you want into perpetuity and is paid for by the US taxpayer is your kind of country.

Meaning--neither * or any of them give a damn about the US. We exist to serve their experience in life, not the other way round.

[w13rd0]

2. Perhaps...

...if there were more domestic violence and class warfare. Try harder...

[Imagevision]

3. It doesn't matter what Bush does, he'll be a continued failure -- he's established a track record -

for failure. In the midst of a civil war bush is going to wave cash and jobs into the faces of the Iraqi's and they're all come running and just drop their AK-47's and R.P.G's and go out to the roads and dig up those I.E.D's...

The US. death-toll and the continued money wasted because one man is hell-bent on securing the oil-flow in Iraq for US. Oil Companies.

[mzmolly]

4. I agree with the premise of training Iraqis as they should have been doing

the rebuilding all along, instead of Halliburton. However, it is an interesting point, thanks.

[Deja Q]

8. I'm compelled to agree in that respect...

Now convince the Iraqis to stop killing themselves and us and become a civilized nation.

[mzmolly]

9. Well, had we kept them busy working, they may not have had the time or

inclination to wage a civil war? At least not in the same measure. As for us being civilized, I think we're on our way with a Democratic congress/Senate. ;)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. The greater American public needs this information

K & R

[Deja Q]

6. Will they believe it?

Most of them don't seem to mind what's going on, judging by the voting numbers each time; especially 2004.

[RiverStone]

14. Agreed - and we can get the word out.

It seems just in this past year, the Blogosphere has risen to such a level that we (collectively) have an influence on a few select folks in the MSM that actually listen - like Jack Cafferty.

Be it the disparity in Shrub's proposal or anything else which effects a broad range of We The People - if we have a unified message; just maybe the American public will get some of the information.

[Deja Q]

7. You know, it'd be a lot more civil of these civil servants just to drop a big-ass bomb on us.

At least it's quick.

[elehhhhna]

10. 50 bucks says they'll be hired as "contractors" so Bushwad'sCorporate pals can skim a good

30% (at minimum) of the gross amount. Bank on it.

Any takers?

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I thought we'd already paid to bribe every crook over there!

EDit...America is kind of short of cash due to your elective wars and tax cuts. Maybe you can raise an extra billion in a $500,000.00 a plate fund raiser.

[NewJeffCT]

12. and, aren't Iraqis supposed to get universal health care, too?

Not that it would be much help right now... but, isn't that in their constitution?

[Horse with no Name]

13. I have read extensively on the failure of this operation

Most noteably, the fact that Bush brought in contractors to do jobs that could be done by Iraqis.
Without jobs...they turned to the highest bidder, including insurgency.
However, to offer jobs now IMHO is foolhardy.
We have killed enough people to effectively piss everyone off and I doubt offering cab driving or construction jobs as a bandaid to the murder of their family members and destruction of their country will work.
Again, George proves to be a day late and a dollar short.

[flamin lib]

15. You beat me to it Horse, the problem all along is that

KBR and Halliburton have been getting paid and obviously not doing the work. Meanwhile, all the talented and skilled Iraqis have fled the country so there aren't enough management types to supervise the reconstruction.