* said today that manufacturing jobs aren't possible and to get tech jobs

[Deja Q]

Or was it service jobs?

We all know tech jobs are going too...

Apart from retail, which requires the need to pass a personality profile test, there is really nothing out there...

So recall when * said a year or so ago to "buy american", what did the pompous little fritter mean by that? Very little is truly American-made anymore.

[xchrom]

1. wait til india gets done with their

wake up call -- tech jobs -- what tech jobs?

if our politicians don't want to fight for jobs and create a school system -- a REAL school system that is the envy of the world -- this is what you're gonna get.

[Skidmore]

2. We need to recapture some of our manufacturing base. If the

friggin' world blows up, there is no way under the sun we can retool our manufacturing systems on short notice to meet our basic needs. For the last 4 years I have been arguing this with everyone. This is an economics problem that is also a national security problem.

[Deja Q]

9. Then let it blow up. The fallaciousness of American greed is intolerable.

What am I supposed to say? We BOTH know damn well that offshoring presents the all-time mutha of national security problems yet those who rant most about protecting security are doing sod all about it!!!

And I think this issue is one that most Americans actually agree on; it's a common point that ANYBODY has a rational and logical case. (have the elected Dems made even a quiet peep about this yet?! I know Bidet (oops, Biden) would not have. He's bought'n'sold...)

So whether our elected officials are clueless (and as with technology they could very well be) or bought'n'paid for to a disgusting degree (just as probable) is another issue.

So let them do what they want. We have no power or say or ability to respond. We're a plutocratic oligarchy. And that's why we're ultimately going to go boom-boom on ourselves.

I don't think it's too late to change. What do they know that makes it too late? Apart from greed, which can blind anybody. Even I have suffered from my own greed, leaving me in debt I am doing my best to repay.

[MercutioATC]

3. But we have PLENTY of manufacturing jobs...

http://www.consciouschoice.com/2004/cc1704/hightower1704.html

[mmonk]

6. yeah, I was going to ask about McDonald's

[mmonk]

4. Dang, that means I have to pack for India

[China_cat]

5. If our area is any indicator

service jobs are out, too.

The utility company has outsourced meter reading, if you call Pizza Hut you talk to a call center in Indiana (or maybe India...who knows these days?).

[lukasahero]

7. Yes because 60 yo's who've spent their whole lives working

in manufacturing are going to be oh so desired by the tech sector. I love it when this idiot "opens his mouth and removes all doubt" as he so often does.

[spindrifter]

8. Service jobs are going, also

Help desks, customer service--all that stuff is being done offshore. So is interpreting x-rays, for that matter. So what tech. jobs is he thinking of--

[Deja Q]

11. He doesn't think. I'm not sure that he can. But he does parrot...

[displacedtexan]

10. Service jobs. I just wrote about this... It's from a FOX news interview.

I just turned in tomorrow's DU Blog Box column, in which I posted snippets of the FOX interview on this crap:

Fox News Hates Your family

That's right. Fox really, really hates your family. Really. What do you do when you want to chase down those Fox News rabids? You release the News Hounds of course! During Neil Cavuto's recent interview with John Stossel and Jonathan Hoening, the guests praised outsourcing, vilified factory workers, and claimed that America could always "just trade" for things we need.

***BEGIN BLOCKQUOTE***Cavuto asked Stossel, "People say manufacturing jobs are leaving. What do you say?"

"Bye!" said Stossel, waving at the camera. "There's nothing wonderful about manufacturing jobs. I think if you look at what we want for our kids, that should answer the question. We don't want them working in a factory where the work is underpaid, I mean, is very hard, it may be uncomfortable." --snip--

Later in the show, guest Jonathan Hoenig, capitalistpig.com, predicted that General Motors Corp. would "go belly-up by the spring of 2006." Cavuto asked him if that would bring a bailout of the kind that helped Chrysler remain in business for 20-some years before merging with Daimler.

"God, I hope not!" said Hoenig, living up to the name of his website.***END BLOCKQUOTE***

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Yeah, who wants their kid to have a factory job

when their kid could be working at Mickey D's or Wally World for 40% less?

[kysrsoze]

14. With no industry in the US, who will be able buy American products?

I love how all these companies are so quick to send manufacturing and now tech jobs (although that's been backfiring lately) overseas, while not realizing it's eating up their own market. With all the GM jobs going to Mexico and China, do they expect Americans to buy GM cars? They won't be able to afford it. That will only serve to send more cash overseas. You can apply that to any industry.

Dumb-asses!

[Democrats_win]

12. What about tech jobs in manufacturing? Did he mean trade school jobs?

Trade school jobs are the jobs that the housing bubble and the oil industry need. Unless you wish to work for an oil refinery which, according to NOW on PBS, the industry has been surpressing for 20 years to insure high profits!!!!