Bush assigning a new government official to address vanishing factory jobs

[MaineDem]

By Associated Press, 9/1/2003

RICHFIELD, Ohio -- President Bush announced Monday he is creating a high-level government post to nurture the manufacturing sector, which is bleeding jobs in states crucial to his re-election.

On a rain-soaked Labor Day trip to a factory training center, Bush said he had directed Commerce Secretary Don Evans to establish an assistant position to focus "on the needs of manufacturers." Keeping factory jobs is critical to a broader economic recovery, the president said, his outdoor venue ringed by cranes, backhoes and bulldozers.

Bush said the nation has lost "thousands of jobs in manufacturing." In fact, the losses have soared into the millions: Of the 2.7 million jobs the US economy has lost since the recession began in early 2001, 2.4 million were in manufacturing. The downturn has eliminated more than one in 10 of the nation's factory jobs.

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/01/factory_jobs.htm

Yawn...more lip service.

[mike_c]

1. spin control....

Paradise is just around the corner....

[southern democrat]

2. The ba

stard hasn't got enough sense to get out of the rain,much less lead a nation or create any jobs!

[kysrsoze]

20. Wrong: He has a plan....

Tax cuts for the top brass at all companies which manufacture something somewhere. It'll surely trickle down to all the workers, even the few left in the U.S.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Look at his words...

he's going to help the manufacturers. Nothing about helping the workers. I suppose this new government beaurocrat will be helping manufacturers outsource overseas, like the GOP are doing with their fundraising campaign.....

[tlcandie]

8. Bingo Ayeshahaqqiqa!

'....helping MANUFACTURERS!'

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I hope the appointee has a lot of fingers to keep track of all the jobs

lost to overseas cheap labor.

All hail to the corporation and fuck the little guys.

[smallprint]

5. here's the new government official

hmmmm... vere has all the jobs gone? i vill find them...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Really Laughed out loud on thqat one, smallprint!

[Not a robought]

17. "This is my boss?

But he is a chimpanzee minkay."

[Rose Siding]

6. Bigger govt!

Growing the bureaucracy- Solving unemployment, one high paid apointee at a time. 5 figure bonuses around!

[tlcandie]

9. Wonder which one of his sidekicks is out of a job now .. needing

to get a promotion/raise/benies, etc.? Any guesses?

[aquart]

10. What's the new guy gonna do?

Wave goodbye at the shore?

[gulliver]

11. Yeah, one of his textile manufacturing CEO...

...contributors no doubt.

This will get Bush nothing. No manufacturing sector worker in their right mind is going to believe they would be better off with Bush. Bush has shown his true cheap labor, job exporter colors. We know who Bush is for, and it certainly isn't American workers.

[2cents]

12. Ok...

...which friend's kid needs a nice cushy no-show job.

[Nottingham]

13. Oh this will help! .....NOT!

Hello Mr.Prez you need to encourage job growth not DIS Courage it!

:crazy:

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. W is acting just like he did before 9-11

He's focusing like a laser on a domestic issue and ignoring all the real problems that we are facing. Guess he knows that there's another LIHOP/MIHOP in the works and he trying to pretend that he doesn't have a clue.

And if he really doesn't have a clue, would somebody mind letting W know WWIII is about to break out. I know he's busy clearing brush and fund raising, but this is sort of important.

[Democat]

15. No more small government? Bush just keeps expanding the government!

Bush's solution to every problem is adding more government.

Imagine if a Democrat did what Bush is doing and expanded the government wildly. The right wingers would be going crazy.

[DrBB]

16. "Message: 'I care!'"

Oops, that was Daddy Bush. Still, same principle. "I will pose in front of working people and tower cranes and people will think I give a shit! Meanwhile, more secret deals and goodies for Halliburton and Carlyle!" Thus Bush/Rove.

[remfan]

18. How much more will we take from this ass?

Those 2.7 million jobs have been "disappearing" for 2 fucking years, and he's said NOTHING, he's done NOTHING, and this is just one more PHONY BACKDROP for him to stand in front of while he greases the palms of his CEO buddies and they in turn BUY A SEAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Empty suits making empty promises in order to secure their seats in the power structure. :puke:

[Beacho]

19. I guess you have to start somewhere

So he only has a few million more to go, at least with one swoop of the executive pen he created ONE job.

[kodi]

21. see? bush IS lowering unemployment, 1 guy at a time

remember, all of bush's friends are working.

[are_we_united_yet]

22. Great Idea W!!!

Now, go out to the mall buy some friggin socks, and the economy should be rollin!

[Whoa_Nelly]

23. Don Evans Bio

Here's his official bio:

http://www.commerce.gov/bios/evans_bio.html

<snip>
A former businessman in the oil and gas industry...

And here's a Dec. 2000 article about him:

http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/122000/gen_1220007497.shtml

Evans: from roughneck to oil executive
The Associated Press


AUSTIN, Texas -- Don Evans was a West Texas roughneck who rose through the ranks to run an oil and gas company.

It was his friendship and loyalty to a future president, however, that has put him on a national stage.

more...

Just the beginning info on DonnyBoy. By looking iinto just these two links, all I'm left with are more questions about him.

[Cocoa]

24. How about "Chainsaw" Al Dunlop?

In the tradition of Henry Kissinger for the Sept. 11 commission, and Daniel Pipes for Institute of Peace, how about Chainsaw Al for "Jobs Czar"?

[whyaduck]

25. Surprise, surprise

Don Evans is a former oil and gas industry executive.

http://www.commerce.gov/bios/evans_bio.html

In 1975, Secretary Evans moved to Midland, Texas, from Houston and was a "roughneck" on an oil rig for Tom Brown, Inc, a large independent energy company. Ten years later, he took the helm of the company as CEO and continued leading it until he was tapped by the President to lead the Commerce Department.

On Edit: late with this info, already posted above :)

[moondust]

26. And the new Czar's findings are...

"they'll have to work for peanuts."