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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (203160)	11/15/2001 7:05:11 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "How many of those employees are volunteering to retire early?" None to my knowledge, or the "layoffs" would have been labeled "buyouts." Re: "Your number of 34,620 is oversimplified rhetoric." No it ain't. Actually, the number is understated. I just pulled those figures in four minutes from newspaper stories concerning seven companies that announced mass layoffs or bankruptcy within the past 48 hours. I suspect the actual number is much higher. Or to put it another way: How many more hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost in this country before the unemployment rate allegedly levels off at 6.3%, as one expert predicted? You're in the business of job quality. How's the job market in Seattle right now? Lots of companies laying off people or lots of companies hiring people? It don't take a Department of Labor specialist to tell you what's going on in your home town, correct?

To: greenspirit who wrote (203160)	11/15/2001 9:02:16 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

And let's not forget we'll soon have about 30,000 well paid, highly trained new government employees taking over the minimum wage jobs as airport security. I wonder if this means the general populace or "tax paying" public will subsidize the "flying" public. The voter is the only entity that would ever force airport security to be efficient and effective under bureaucracy and unless it remains a high priority issue (which is not likely) it will become just another relative failure like the INS and the BATF. If it were privatized the airlines with good records would be chosen by those value safety and security and would pay the price in their ticket. Those that wanted convenience or price would choose the airline with the lowest price and the quickest check-in. It's kind of laughable that some object to corporations getting some of their money back through incentives or breaks. I'm sure corporations are quite capable of saying "We can spend it better than you can" just like Clinton told the American taxpayer.