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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3946)	2/24/2004 9:42:56 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Re innovation. Ain't that the truth, Lizzie. Terrific point. I've seen it over the past two days "touched on" in the news. If and when all design engineering occurs in India, Bangalore, China and other points in the Third World East, by US company employees being paid a fraction of US wages -- with no benefits, I would assume, such a health, life insurance and STOCK OPTIONS, why would such a serf WANT to create new technology patentable only by the corporate employer? lb

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3946)	2/24/2004 9:48:10 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

From TN, it used to be local papers wouldn't pick up negative press like this. It means the public is turning against Bush even in TN. Numbers don't add up when Bush talks of jobs Commentary by Bill Press February 24, 2004 Do you ever get the feeling that the first spaceship already left for Mars - and President Bush was on it? The way he talks about the economy and jobs, he can't be living on the same planet the rest of us are. Feb. 9 he traveled to Springfield, Mo., where he declared that "the American economy is strong and getting stronger." One week later, ABC News reported that consumer confidence dropped to its lowest level in 18 years - and only 36 percent of Americans agreed with George Bush that the economy was in good shape. In Springfield, the president also proudly predicted that 2.6 million new jobs would be created in 2004. One week after the president made that prediction the White House backed off. "The president is not a statistician," sniffed White House flak Scott McClellan. So why does he keep making phony predictions? This isn't the first time Bush has fallen flat on his face over jobs. In June 2003, he predicted that his tax cuts would generate 5.5 million new jobs between July 2003 and December 2004. That would have meant 2.142 million jobs by Feb. 1. Instead, only 296,000 were created. Bush was off by 1.846 million. Not even close enough for government work. Last fall, President Bush again put himself on the line. He predicted 150,000 new jobs during December 2003. The actual total? One thousand. Bush missed the mark by 149,000. And now he's at it again, predicting 2.6 million jobs this year. Meeting that goal means 460,000 a month. No wonder Bush quickly backed off. January saw the creation of only 112,000 new jobs. The real question is: Why does anybody believe this guy - about anything? One of the big reasons new jobs aren't being created, of course, is because the Bush administration has done nothing to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs overseas. Adding insult to injury, the president's chief economist this week said that outsourcing, or sending jobs to low-wage workers in other countries, is actually good news. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers - the same genius who originally fed Bush the forecast of 2.6 million new jobs - told a Washington audience: "I think outsourcing is a growing phenomenon, but it's something that we should realize is probably a plus for the economy in the long run." Come in, Mars. Will President Bush please explain how in heaven's name taking jobs away from Americans and sending them to workers in Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, India or China is a good idea? And if George Bush doesn't agree, why didn't he fire Mankiw on the spot? With 9 million Americans out of work, jobs will be one of the big issues in 2004. And on that key issue, the Bush credibility gap suddenly got a whole lot wider. We know we can't believe anything the president says about yellowcake uranium, aluminum tubes, weapons of mass destruction, deficits, or his service in the National Guard. Now we can't believe anything he says about jobs, either. He said his tax cuts would create new jobs. They haven't. He predicted his budget would create millions of new jobs each of the last three years. It didn't. He promised to put every American back to work. He failed. But it's worse than that. Not only were few new jobs created, but also, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.2 million private-sector jobs have been lost since George Bush took office in January 2001. History will be made this year. George Bush will become the first president since Herbert Hoover to end his first term with fewer jobs than when he started. Not exactly the kind of record that begs, or deserves, a second term. nashvillecitypaper.com