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In reply to the discussion: Obama Tells Woman: "Interesting" Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job [View all]Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)51. She used the word permanent job.
What you probably are looking at are temp consulting jobs.
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I'm sorry, but sometimes you have to move if you truly cannot find a job.
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2012
#53
I have a feeling H1-B visa engineers is what most companies are looking for.
Liberal Veteran
Jan 2012
#3
Yes...H1-B visa engineers = Cheaper and I expect that is what the woman was complaining about.
whathehell
Feb 2012
#73
The south has "bless your heart;" as a Minnesotan, "that's interesting" cracks me up.
Brickbat
Jan 2012
#4
"engineer", covers a lot of territory doesn't it? Electrical engineers. Mechanical engineers.
NNN0LHI
Jan 2012
#6
No. This is a hurting person. "That's interesting" isn't in any way a response of empathy
Romulox
Jan 2012
#17
Consider that he was very upbeat, and offered to personally help out with the job situation
bhikkhu
Feb 2012
#113
I didn't read it that way either. Engineers have a much better chance of employment
AtomicKitten
Jan 2012
#34
He said "that's interesting" after she said he was a semiconductor engineer. 4500 jobs on Indeed.com
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#80
You don't know any of that to be true, though. It's just a pile on in defense of the President. nt
Romulox
Feb 2012
#104
did you see jon stewert last night? - she also asked him to "dance a jig." nt
arely staircase
Feb 2012
#122
Someone said earlier that this is the same lady who asked him to 'dance a jig'
redqueen
Jan 2012
#10
He did not say that ... which is probably why the woman Obama talked to was on MSNBC today ...
JoePhilly
Jan 2012
#49
obama bad obama bad obama bad obama evil obama bad obama bad obama bad obama evil... you know the
dionysus
Jan 2012
#54
That's right. She said she couldn't get to her husband fast enough, that she had to let it sink in
jenmito
Jan 2012
#61
Yeap, I've come to the conclusion that Freepers just pepper the place especially on the weekend
uponit7771
Jan 2012
#39
Sounds like he doesn't believe what this woman is claiming because it doesn't square with
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#20
overall I think the prez handled this exchange poorly, but it sounds like too the woman
WI_DEM
Jan 2012
#30
A lot of semiconductor work (including design) was offshored *before* they started
gkhouston
Feb 2012
#92
Seriously? Well, companies want to hire people just out of school, at low salaries.
Mass
Jan 2012
#36
Her husband was employed for almost all last year according to his linkedin page ( she "forgot" to
pkdu
Jan 2012
#46
they sleep just great - some time around 1998, American tech workers became 'unpersons'
flexnor
Feb 2012
#119
The RNC cut the answer up and is using this clip to bash Obama as "out of touch." He's NOT.
jenmito
Jan 2012
#60
so the word "intertesting" is what sparked this? Interesting in deed. As far as repukes, I see...
GusFring
Feb 2012
#75
Maybe everyone with an engineering degree who doesn't have a job should send their resumes to Obama?
The Backlash Cometh
Feb 2012
#86
i am more bothered this woman, with a huge smile, asked our president to dance a jig. wtf. nt
seabeyond
Feb 2012
#90
Not just to dance for her, but to "get up and dance a little JIG for us real quick."
tblue37
Feb 2012
#124
Well, Mr. President there is what you are being told by your staff and "handlers" and then there is
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#112
and then she asked him if he would dance "a jig"- saw it on jon stewert nt
arely staircase
Feb 2012
#120
H-1b is a baseball bat on the middle class - Even Milton Freidman called it a 'subsidy'
flexnor
Feb 2012
#129
Bill Clinton 'I feel your Pain'. Obama 'the word I'm getting is, you have no pain'
flexnor
Feb 2012
#133