Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Bush's Cry for Help
George W. Bush Sees Different Economic Universe0 comments
The president has fallen off the wagon again!
My gawd!
He is obviously back doing cocaine. Immense amounts of cocaine.
Who knows? He's probably drinking heavily again, too. Have you seen the physical changes in our Boy Wonder from those 2000 Election Year Debate clips the networks have started running?
It might just be NarcAnon time again.
Does this constitute another blackout period for him? One in which he won't remember where he was for these last few years? It does seem to bear uncanny resemblence to his National Guard days.
In Bush's version of economic reality, displaced workers are being retrained with government help for higher-tech, higher-paying jobs.
And he said he would offer new proposals on job training this week.
"Our economy has increasing demand for workers with advanced skills, such as teachers, healthcare workers and environmental engineers. But too many Americans do not have these kinds of skills," Bush said.
Oh, a lot of drugs...
The only environmental jobs on the horizon in THIS country are spokesperson/spinmeister jobs for companies that pollute our air and water, killing our children with impugnity.
You might ask any Registered Nurse or Doctor you happen to know about job opportunities in the healthcare field, and they'll tell you that the only growth jobs are either your $6/hr. "Technician" jobs, or your spokesperson/spinmeister jobs for those companies which are squeezing millions of Americans out of the healthcare system altogether or squeezing further millions of dollars out of the carcass of the system we have left.
... retrained with government help ...
There was a report on CNN last night which stated that government job retraining programs over the years have been a dismal, great-sounding political panacea—that they've never worked in GOOD times, with the best governmental intentions in place. As merely a fleeting photo-op, precious little Bush administration money has been ear-marked for this, and even that much will be totally wasted. They might just as well give folks the cash, which might at least keep them from being evicted. But to push useless, minimal training for non-existant jobs is screwing with peoples' hopes.
And THAT is truly evil.
... for higher-tech, higher-paying jobs.
A perfect example of how cocaine leads you into talking nonstop while having no idea whatsoever of what you're actually saying, other than it MUST be brilliant.
More circumstancial evidence of a drug relapse.
He apparently doesn't realize that "high-tech" jobs are, and have been, the primary targets for outsourcing. And that what's left of these formerly lucrative fields is now wildly over-populated by the recently laid off.
He also has missed the fact that there ARE NO "higher-paying jobs" in America anymore.
American wages have been flat and/or depressed for years now. Employees' Real Wages have actually dropped into NEGATIVE territory since Bush took power.
I'm giving Bush the benefit of the doubt here, saying that these are just blackouts on his part. The only alternative would be to call him a lying scum weasel who cares not a whit about anyone on this planet other than himself (gee, just like with a junkie...), and that strikes me as an unseemly thing to charge a sitting American president with.
"Our economy has increasing demand for workers with advanced skills, such as teachers, healthcare workers and environmental engineers. But too many Americans do not have these kinds of skills," Bush said.
Notice how he suggests three career paths that have historically been undervalued and underpaid?
According to his Press Enabler Scott McClellan: He's thinkin'; always thinkin'!
I firmly believe that it's time for another Bush family intervention from those who care for him—or profess to (maybe that's part of the problem!). It's time for George H. W. Bush, ol' "41" himself, to view this as if his troubled oldest boy has drunkenly driven up on America's lawn this time, and Dad HAS to step in sternly to get his beloved son back on the straight and narrow. Maybe First Helpmeet Laura Bush should threaten to leave our hero again if he doesn't clean up.
Stern measures, indeed. But important ones, if they love young George.
And if they love their country.
They should consider it their patriotic duty.
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