Spin: Making sure "everone who wants a job has one."

[gulliver]

Republicans don't say, "George Bush's number one concern is jobs for Americans." Instead, they say "George Bush wants to make sure there are jobs for every American who wants a job." Ed Gillespie was just on Meet the Press, and he just did it.

I find it very annoying. It's like they are trying to say some Americans don't want jobs. Or maybe they are saying a lot of the job loss that has occurred under Bush is people no longer wanting jobs. Is this what they are trying to do (pretty slimy) or is it just me?

[Ilsa]

1. I've heard it that way also.

It's an intentional slam at unemployed people. They want us to believe that a big portion of the unemployment problem is people not wanting jobs, or people not wanting to take just any crappy low-paying jobs, so it's their fault, not Smirky McChimpster's.

(edited for grammatical error.)

[schultzee]

5. Bu$h is stealing our future, and our children's futures.

[Fovea]

2. Translation

If you busted your ass for a year, and gave up after having your ego destroyed for their profit, you are a lazy SOB who does not deserve the
cushy job in food service we are going to provide you.

Oh, by the way, if you decide to send your kid to our private school
using our vouchers, you will need to work 4 of these cushy jobs at once.

[rfranklin]

3. Bush's latest job training investment was trumpeted at $200 million...

which is what we pump into Iraq in a matter of hours. ($150 billion divided by 365 days.)

[Ilsa]

8. Averages out to about $70 a person

in job retraining funds. Fucking nothing.

Hey, how about a bunch of us send him community college job retraining brochurs when he loses his job in a few months? Wouldn't that be hysterical?

[schultzee]

4. A minimum wage service sector job is what bu$h has in mind for

us and our children. He likes the system that they have in Mexico where the whole family has to work to afford houseing and food.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Same Raygunomic Buzzwords

How I remember them well...there's always a job for those who want one. So what if you have a college degree or years of experience, just take what's given to you, do it and be happy.

Of all the GOOP spins, this is the most hollow, since the economy has tanked so badly in the past 3 years. If a person hasn't lost their job, taken on more work for the same or less pay or had to take a second or third job to keep up with rising costs, they're not going to be too receptive to this spin...but who cares, those are Democrats anway. But there's a growing number of "upper middle" class...who either have lost their jobs or investments or know someone close who has (probably subsidizing a kid or two) and aren't buying that this is all because of 9/11. They're seeing the jobs going off-shore, the mega-merger consolidations and runaway pork and other government spending and it's not settling very well.

Honestly, there are many Repugnicans who have lived guilded lives...money, the best schools, fishbowl society and now inside the beltway who have absolutely no concept of what an 8-hour day is or fighting paycheck to paycheck.

I've always felt the biggest determinator in the voting booth is how your wallet feels that day. As long as millions are either unemployed, under-employed, non-entities or don't see things getting better in the future, this is gonna be a major, major problem that cost Poppy his job.

[ComerPerro]

7. Yeah very true

I guess if you got laid off, then you don't want to be working. It probably has nothing to do with a greedy motherfucking CEO laying off you and thousands of others just so he can make a few thousand dollars, and so his asshole millionare investors can take thier unneeded massive tax cut and buy stock for cheaper, and make even more money.

[Fovea]

10. buy stock for cheaper, and make even more money

Because they make make money, but they no longer understand what it is.
That is because they control so much that is has no connection to the quality of life. They cannot consume more, but they still want more.

Eventually, they destroy the meaning of wealth and make
the average life so miserable that it becomes less important than revenge.

Then, their heads go up on stakes, and the whole long cycle
begins anew. I think that the Uber Rich are blissfully unaware
how close America is to that point. Not an organized politically
self aware revolution, but ten thousand points of heat, all hurling a brick through a Humvee window, tagging a gated community or torching a gas station for price gouging.

If that day comes, it will be horrible, and a total surprize
for the bubble boys and girls out there.
After all, these are the people who actually believed that the Iraqis would be throwing flowers at us, instead of RPG's.

[BillZBubb]

9. Yeah, jobs for everyone in China, India, Taiwan, Korea...

None in the good old U.S.of A.

[Don Claybrook]

11. Odd. I just finished sending out ANOTHER 20 resumes

And I was qualified for every one of those positions (network engineer). That brings my total up to about 250 or so. Golly, I hope the Republicans consider me someone who wants to work. Or is the idea that I need to "retrain" on the french fry machine?

[Vickers]

12. My Monster resume got 240+ hits in 1999...

...in about 3 weeks.

An updated resume was put on there in November 2001.

It's had 14 hits since then.

14.

Yup, I hate money. I FUCKING HATE IT.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. That was initially said to grease the wheels for...

...the "Guest Worker" program. At the initial press conference, when Bush announced the "jobs that American workers don't want," he had a little stinger in his speech. You will have to hunt down the transcripts to find his exact words but it was something along the lines of a worker in Mexico who "accepts his responsibility as breadwinner for his family" being "grateful" for the "opportunity" to do any work that will allow him to feed his family and meet their needs. If an American "doesn't care" about taking care of his / her family (in the Bush/Rove way of thinking) why punish someone from another country who DOES care? Let 'em in! Put 'em to work! Screw the lazy 'murcans! If they're lucky, maybe there'll be some jobs left WHEN THEY CARE.

The Bush administration will NEVER connect "the jobs that Americans don't want" with "the jobs that Americans would do in a friggin' SECOND if they paid a living wage and let them keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs." Bush doesn't care about the hundreds and thousands of hours spent in classrooms and seminars and on-the-job training that now, according to his "agenda," must be thrown out the window in favor of "retraining." It's a changing world, change with it, or go f**k yourself. With Love, George W. Bush.

P.S...."Are you gonna buy some ribs or what?"

The "guest worker" thing was only part of the equation. We are witnessing the firestorm that has occurred over Bush's economic report and the glowing comments over how good outsourcing is for America. Good for American CEOs...Carly Fiorina and her wretched ilk. Good for dickwads like Atul Vashistha, the CEO of "NeoIT," which charges American businesspeople $500 a head to attend his "how to outsource" seminars and gives companies awards for "Best Stealth Outsourcing." So, in an election year, the country goes CRAZY and Bush backpedals and says "Oh, it's just a downright shame when 'murcans lose their jobs. Let's send 'em off to their local junior college, get 'em "retrained," and get 'em back to work...if they WANT TO WORK, that is..."

He DOES NOT CARE. Stop expecting him to. It's not going to happen. Vote him out of office in November and convince as many people as you can to to the same.

[Ookie]

14. Yeah, right........

I'm so tired of interviewing for jobs that pay what I was making 10 years ago and not even getting a job offer. This administration has done more harm to this country in less time than any other. There is a special place in hell for all of them.

[SoCalDem]

15. Here's how it works, folks..

A guy who supports his family on a 50,000.00 a year job is laid off and after looking and looking, and exhausting what savings they had, he is offered a $10.00 hr job doing menial labor.. He says no thanks, I am still looking far a better job..

to a republican.. THIS MAN DOESN'T WANT A JOB.