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

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (505038)	12/6/2003 4:08:39 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Working people do not create jobs. They work the jobs that we create. Entrepreneurialism comes from the middle class. Your statement is way off. Do you actually BELIEVE THIS? We need to create an environment where bright people feel like certain professions especially engineering of all kinds are worthwhile professions to undertake. There are countless hours of study and schooling involved and it has to pay off. Then, when skills are acquired on the job and elsewhere, new companies are created with the fruits of this knowledge. What we have at this juncture is a situation where no desk job is worth becoming educated for. Design work etc is being shipped offshore. You can make more money being a mechanic than going to MIT and training as an engineer.

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (505038)	12/7/2003 11:15:41 AM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Bush aims to support the working man>> In what way? Medicare? That bill sounds more like a special interests feast than any real support for the working man. <<Working people do not create jobs. They work the jobs that we create.>> How unapologetically self righteous. You are ignoring all self employed people. And you are ignoring the fact that if you give tax relief to people who will spend it, that will create demand, which will in turn create the need for more jobs. If you give tax relief to rich people who already have enough money to buy whatever they would need, it doesn't increase spending. The idea that they will go out and create some jobs just because they received a tax cut is for the just plain stupid. They will create jobs only when there is profit in it for them, and if there is no money in it for them no jobs will be created. Unbridled corporate capitalism will also seek out jobs overseas. That does nothing for the working man here. Go ahead. Make me a list of all the great things Bush has done for the working man. He is "the great divider", to anyone who is paying attention.