Does The President `Get It'? Executives Complain Too Many Needs Remain Unm

[UpInArms]

Does The President `Get It'? Executives Complain Too Many Needs Remain Unmet

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WASHINGTON - Early in his first run for the White House, George W. Bush traveled to Palo Alto and told high-tech executives that he understood their industry and ``this incredible land called Silicon Valley.''

``It's a piece of the spirit of America,'' Bush told 500 people at a $1,000-a-plate breakfast in July 1999. ``It not only talks about new technologies that shape our lives, but it speaks about daring and enterprise and the ultimate American Dream.''

Now, six months into his second term, some executives in Silicon Valley question whether Bush and key members of his administration really do ``get it'' when it comes to high tech.

They complain -- usually privately -- about a lack of accomplishment on some major policy issues and a broader lack of focus on what they consider a unique sector of the U.S. economy. Increasingly, high-tech executives are turning to Congress to try to address their needs.

``Our expectations may have been too high . . . but I certainly can't say this has been a high-tech administration,'' said one industry lobbyist, who noted he is a Republican and spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he feared upsetting the White House.

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Huh? GOP lobbyists are :scared: about "upsetting the WH?

[pinniped]

1. Those idiots believed that POS was capable of understanding something.

That's the funny part. He took them suckers' money.

[fshrink]

2. Idiots or duplicitous liars.

Probably both, just like the man they endorsed.

[leesa]

3. Yup, he did. Ripped them off the same as the Fundies. That's

what they get for not being reality-based! All they had to do was look at what he did rather than what he said. But they are believers and not reality based so they didn't look. Texas was a perfect picture of what he does vs what he says he does.

[acmejack]

4. Yes we're living the dream now!

* has done so much for our state. Terrible underfunded schools, soaring tuition rates for the state colleges, steps back on the environment, the largest number of uninsured children in the nation. All in all, *'s record as governor has been one of non-accomplishment and back sliding on past gains.

[quiet.american]

14. You read my mind. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Bitch, bitch, bitch.

Cry, cry, cry.

You dumbshits. Their money is in the MIC and oil(doing swimmingly, thank you). What did you expect?

[natrat]

6. feared upsetting the white house

fuckin mama's boy

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. I don't think you understand how ruthless the NeoCons really are.

[Demeter]

26. It Doesn't Matter How Ruthless They Are

They can't kill us all. Unless we let them, and help them.

[Ready4Change]

7. Five Fricken years too late.

Sigh...

How much of Silicon Valley as been outsourced by now?

[wli]

9. try finding what hasn't been offshored

It's a shorter list.

[teknomanzer]

8. Would seem obvious to me...

an administration that is so anti-intellectual and anti-science could not possibly understand the need of the high tech sector. Thanks to this administration developing nations may soon have the lead in technological development. This administration has the habit of rewriting conclusions they don't like instead of putting people together to find the best solutions to the problem. That could also have a chilling effect on the development of useful technology.

[MarkTwain]

10. Duuuuuhhhhh !

...just what did they expect from an "administration" that predicates its entire philosophy, marketing, and political strategies to the lowest common denominator of intellect?

...just what did they expect from an "administration" whose stated and direct goals are to return us to their ideal decade of the fifties. The only question being 18 or 19 fifties?

...just what did they expect from an "administration" whose figurehead was a failed businessman many times, a "legacy" college graduate who never actually earned better than a C grade, and a boy who can't even put two related thoughts together in a succinct, meaningful statement that is grammatically appropriate?

...and just what did they expect from an "administration" whose biggest pals were firmly routed in fossil fuels - fossil being a highly telling characterization of both the energy source and the level of sophistication in their ability at intellectually dynamic thinking.

You got what you deserve you ignorant, soulless, selfish trolls.

[goforit]

11. Better yet....Does the High Tech get it?....It's not about them its about

Bubba and his sidekick.

[Dover]

12. Well you get what you pay for. Bushco is a bad investment.

Guess they are not getting their money's worth. Join the club!

[mandomom]

13. They complain but they elected him.

[Catshrink]

15. "Elections have consequences"

Looks like the repugs are beginning to see this.

I love throwing this line in the face of my Limbaugh-Insanity-O'Leilly loving sister when she bitches about some government service or agency being slow. I say, "Well, elections have consequences. You voted for smaller government and lower taxes and guess what? You got it." Usually, she shuts me down although sometimes I can get in a dig about how smaller government means smaller staff which translates into longer waits.

[yorkiemommie1]

16. tough

they bought themselves a poseur, a rootin' tootin' tinhorn cowboy. They actually bought that rhetoric? talk about stupid! and even now they're afraid of upsetting the mama's boy.

remember what he did to frogs? he's doing it to all of us now!

btw, would this be the Silicon Valley I read about on the INTERNETS?? lol.

[donco6]

17. Oh go count your tax cut. Maybe that'll make you happy. eom

[Mountainman]

18. Gore understands high tech. Why did you not vote for him? Fools!

I think some times these guys wonder what kind of world we could have had if Gore were president.

[pfitz59]

19. A far,far better one!

With Gore we'd be in the 21st century, not the 15th!

[reprobate]

20. Proof that REAL republicans are starting to turn on Mad George.

[fortyfeetunder]

21. It was all about not voting for the party of Clinton

Now Clinton had a clue about science and technology, but alas, he had an affair and scarred the country.

So in the quest to erase the Clinton legacy, all those executives probably voted Republican via * brought decency and honor back to the executive branch of the government...Did they have a clue that * is an anti-intellectual? A failed oil company * managed should have been a clue..

And I introduce the orchestra to perform "Too Effing Bad, You Was Had"!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[earth mom]

29. Did you forget about Clinton and NAFTA....?

Clinton did NOT do this country any favors either and now we're all paying the price.

[pfitz59]

22. Boo fucking hoo!

"Our expectations may have been too high?" Stop smoking crack, you loser! Can't get much lower than Dumbya! We knew it! The whole world knew it! Why not you, you crack-head lobbyist scum!

[llmart]

24. Everything asshole Bush has ever touched has been a colossal failure...

what the hell did they think - that all of a sudden he would become smart? They're as stupid as he is.

[Demeter]

25. Hello, America? Bush Doesn't Get ANYTHING!

The man is incapable of taking in information. He lives inside his very small and misshappen skull, in his very small and misshappen life, and his very protected, unreal world.

He's trashed your country, our country, completely. Hilter and Tojo couldn't do that. Hoover couldn't (although he tried and had lots of help in high places).

And believe me, the 60's didn't, not even close.

So get the message, and get on the program

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

[Vickers]

27. "Our expectations may have been too high" WTF?

How high COULD your expectations have been for Dimson? He's as dumb as a fucking teapot...it's like overestimating a puddle of water.

[Supersedeas]

28. ewww....ewwww....ewww...don't upset the WH - Frat Boy has a temper