Bush losing more Freeper votes every day

[NewYorkerfromMass]

I LOVE it! Check this out:

President Blames Unemployment On Lack Of Tech Skills IEEE

"During a Wednesday morning (July 30th) press conference, President Bush was asked a question about jobs going overseas as a result of technological innovation. His response was:

"I fully understand what you're saying. In other words, as technology races through the economy, a lot of times worker skills don't keep up with technological change."

Many people have taken his response to mean that unemployment in the high-tech sector is the result of American workers who allowed their skills to become obsolete. This is an unacceptable explanation."

and let's go to the responses...

There's more air in between those ears than meets the eye!

4 posted on 07/31/2003 11:54 AM PDT by samuel_adams_us

Is President Bush TRYING to convince the rest of us that he is completely out of touch with the average American? That little comment is going to cost him a lot of votes. Mr. President, if our skills are so out of date, then why are so many companies requiring their American workers to train their foreign replacements before firing them? People are killing themselves over this issue, and our President says "let them eat cake".
This is not going to make Joe Sixpack think good thoughts about our President.

10 posted on 07/31/2003 11:57 AM PDT by Elliott Gigantalope (Formerly Billy_bob_bob)

I email the White House about this often. But if Karl Rove can't stick his finger up in the wind and feel the anger and resentment blowing from this issue, he must have nerve damage in that thar political finger.

12 posted on 07/31/2003 11:59 AM PDT by dirtboy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955929/posts

DEEEEEEEEEEEEElicious!

[barbaraann]

1. AND...on Fox News today Judge Napolitano went after the DOJ

on its treatment of the Lackawanna detainees. It was incredible--he was scathing about how Ashcroft is trashing the constitution.

[wryter2000]

4. Yahooo!

That's some of the best news yet. IMHO, he has to be crucified for what he's doing to our Bill of Rights.

[Adamocrat]

27. They PULLED the thread!

No Bush Bashing on FR. No way, no how.

-A

[dfong63]

2. hit the nail on the head

Mr. President, if our skills are so out of date, then why are so many companies requiring their American workers to train their foreign replacements before firing them?

ouch.

[Brian Sweat]

11. These people just don't understand

The technical skill required by these companies is the ability to work for peanuts.

[Brian Sweat]

16. These people just don't understand

The technical skill required by these companies is the ability to work for peanuts.

[Ilsa]

3. Thank God the country isn't as stupid as we thought.

They'd have to be real "morans" to not get how Shrub's alias is Silver Spoon Junior. He is completely out of touch. If he'd just pick up a current newspaper and read something besides the baseball scores he might learn something.

As for the Freepers, too bad they lost their jobs. I guess they won't be buying very many of those $2,000 a plate dinners.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Well, they have a whole year to get him ready for his big date in MSG

The rethuglican convention should see him with all his talking points down pat. Of course, there better not be any late curve balls or doofus will be EXPOSED!

[dragonquest8]

5. it's about time, isn't it

[drdigi420]

6. Does this mean there is hope?

And I may not have to move?

[gristy]

10. Hey, many of those people you derogatorily call "Freepers"

are so much more like you and me than you seem to believe. JUST READ THOSE POSTS in the link at the start of this thread. It would be so much more productive if you would open up your hearts and brains and be prepared to accept their support, should they start looking beyond the Republican Party. Think of them as a long lost son who abandoned his family for the past 10 years but is now older, wiser, and is still seeking the truth. Help him find it. Name calling and derogatory comments don't help.

There IS a ruling class in this country and THEY are the enemy. Their sheep are NOT the enemy.

On edit: Sorry drdigi420, didn't mean to reply to #6. Wanted to reply to original post.

[denverbill]

15. They call themselves freepers.

I welcome any freeper with open arms who wakes up to the fact the Bush is running this country into the ground and realizes he has to be stopped.

[On the Road]

17. Absolutely Right, Gristy

Collectively, they're freepers. Individually, they're human beings with the potential for changing their minds.

I know, I used to be a RW'er a long time ago. Sometimes it just takes a single issue to make people start questioning.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

21. and also to denverbill:

THAT'S the SPIRIT!!!!

[hang a left]

42. Right on!

Most of us doing the best we can with what we got.

[Upfront]

18. Soory

good thought, but do you understand how dumb these prople are? Screw um!

[bicentennial_baby]

19. Uh

It's called Free Republic...When they coordinate their attacks on online polls, they call it FReep-ing. They are FReepers!

Trust me, there's plenty of other things I'd like to call them...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. Freepers view the term complimentarily

but you are right about being accepting. It is why I posted a thread on this article a couple days back:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/6404526.htm

We need to work WITH each other!

[supernova]

8. Can't believe slashdotters

aren't talking about this comment. But I can't find a thread over there anywhere. You'd think they'd be livid.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. Ha ha! This is great stuff:

This comment is potentially on par with his father's grocery store gaffe...

422 posted on 07/31/2003 2:17 PM PDT by kms61

It may be time for me to rethink my vote for Dubya. I've been slowly losing my ability to stomach voting for this man again.

To think that he has lost touch this badly is really upsetting. It's not the skills, it's labor cost. In most cases the skillsets are far lower. Companies are accepting a lower level of support to cut the costs.

408 posted on 07/31/2003 2:13 PM PDT by PenguinWry

[Resistance Is Futile]

12. Memories are short

Memories are short. All of this will be forgotten by 2004 amid a frenzy of preemptive invasion, patriotic flag waving, fear of terrorism, and an ongoing mantra that all the economy needs is one more tax cut.

[Submariner]

13. That was delicious! Thanks.

It only took them 3 years to catch on to what we already knew. Bush is an unaccomplished incompetant corporate whore with no business sense who never worked a day in his life. Being AWOL from reality is dubya's MO.

[MI Cherie]

14. Another thing ...

Probably more than half of the people unemployed or under-employed have twice the tech skills as W.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. and twice the brain cells

probably 3 to 4 times even!

[On the Road]

23. I Just Emailed the Dean Team

suggesting that Dean issue a statement immediately taking a stand against job flight. This is an opportunity that needs to be seized.

Emailing other candidates that you support might be a good idea. There's a narrow news window.

[brokensymmetry]

34. You're right!

In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea to e-mail all the Democratic/Progressive candidates at every level.

If we want back the White House, the House and the Senate - this is our opportunity!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

24. Hahhhh!!!!

They pulled the thread! Too much gut-level honesty! Now we can really see, yet again, what RimJob is made of!

Me, I'm calling Mike tonight!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

25. Wow. they pulled the thread.

Somehow, I'm not at all surprised. Didn't need themselves to look bad.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

28. Well I have several of those pages open on my machine right now

:evilgrin: Oh What to do???? :evilgrin:

And is DU monitored??? YOU BET! :)

[Adamocrat]

32. If DU is monitored...

Hey RimJob,

How does it feel knowing that even your own apostles are sick of Bush's record of LOSING JOBS? You must feel a little deflated knowing that you've bet on the losing horse.

-A

[NewYorkerfromMass]

38. Did you know JimRob is a wheelchair bound Vietnam vet?

Proof that he sold his soul to the devil just 'cuz Bush was supposed to nominate and get on the Bench more Thomases and Scalias. Yep, that's the reason he backs AWOL Bush, 'cuz he wants MORE right wing nuts on our courts. Well thank God for the Democrats Jim! :hi:

[Adamocrat]

41. I know...

My father is a Repuke Vietnam vet, too. He's a brainwashed "morals" person who can't get over Clinton's evil Clenis.

Jackasses.

Thankfully he's sick of seeing Bush spending like a drunk sailor on shoreleave, and he swears he won't vote for him in 2004. His base IS turning against him.

Cheers,
-A

[yankeedem]

26. The Thread has been pulled

That jackass Jim Robinson has to be on the RNC payroll. Anything that even questions Bush (even posts from the conservative wing even more fascist than W) are pulled.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

30. The term "Bushbot"

is used as a giveaway for trolls there. If you call someone a "Bushbot" you are usually tombstoned ("zotted" as they say) forthwith.

Anyway, blind allegiance to Bush is being questioned frequently there lately. :)

[gristy]

35. THAT is very interesting.

And is a shame. But everyone needs to remember what they saw there (and what was cut and is still pasted into this thread's original post). These sheep are average Joes who value many of the same things we do. It is the Plutocratic Cheap-Labor Conservative Leaders who are the true enemy of us all, DUers and "Freepers" alike.

It's almost like we were able to briefly see into their prison because of a wooden door mistakenly left open (though the iron gates were still locked).

[ronnykmarshall]

29. "Our President"

I bust up everytime I hear or see this phrase. It's as if they are still have to try and prove this fucker is legit.

[barbaraann]

31. It was pulled but another Freeper started a similar thread.

Oh, yes, they are waking up!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956021/posts

[yankeedem]

36. $3000 Savings account for retraining

The Vocational school I teach for cost $10000. Maybe the $3000 is for plane tickets to India or China, that's where the tech jobs are going.

[Ilsa]

40. Now what does * think an engineer with an MBA is

supposed to retrain in?

Stupid reporters at the WH didn't have a clue, couldn't ask a reasonable question. Maybe the engineers should take THEIR jobs.

[thermodynamic]

33. Bush is a complete and utter cretin!

He has a history of shifting blame, but his latest natterings are utterly un-Presidential and completely uncalled for. It's bullshit and he knows his big business buddies are doing this anti-American act just for CEO profits, nothing more.

Bush is an unacceptable explanation and he damn well deserves to lose BY A LANDSLIDE in 2004. But with peoples' short memories, Bush will probably do something at the 11th hour to look like the "better" candidate despite it all. :puke:

Those responses he got are, fortunately, a breath of fresh air.

[brokensymmetry]

37. True!

"Bush is a complete and utter cretin!"

And that's his best quality!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

39. LOL!!!!

[EFF BrandyWine]

43. Eureka!

Even those nasty freepers have some single issue voters in their group! Who knew?

[yankeedem]

44. Ignorance rears its ugly head on this thread though

One post said that these industries are outmoded---- uh, no, the jobs still need to get done, it's just being done in a cheaper country. Outmoded is buggy whip manufacture, or Pullman Coach designer.

The same post said we don't like doing these jobs. Gee, tell that to the 8,000 textile workers that lost their jobs in NC this week. Hell, I don't like my job sometimes too, but it beats starving.