Quote: (12-06-2011 10:58 PM)tenderman100 Wrote:
Want to know why Barack Obama is really really STUPID.
Watch this.
Obama blames the Internet for Job Losses
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2...osses.html
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"Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn't just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the internet....and if you're somebody whose job can be done by a computer or someone in another country, you don't have a lot leverage with your employer when it comes to asking your employer for better wages, or better benefits, especially today since fewer Americans are part of a union..."
What a fucking idiot this guy is.
Some choice comments on this video.
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Last time I checked, the Internet, ATMs, automation in factories, and world strife have been around a lot longer than this recession. Certainly much longer than Obama has been in the mix of politics.
To blame today's problems on tech advances decades old is either incredibly niave or an outright distortion of the reality.
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J-sus H! He's still using the ATMs and airport kiosks nonsense?! Hey, Barry. Let me ask you something. An ATM machine may replace a bank teller, but wouldn't it also create jobs for people who manufacture them, install them, program them, repair them, restock them, and install and monitor security cameras in them?
Now I may not be as good at math as you, Mr. 57 States, or Joe "J-O-B-S is a 3-letter word" Biden, but I am smart enough to deduce that that one bank teller job that was rendered obsolete has created a demand for at least a half dozen new jobs. Isn't that a good thing for the economy?
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What brilliant insight!! What a cogent and well-constructed observation!! Certainly before the internet and rapid communication there were MANY more people employed in such lucrative positions such as; Telegraph operators, Semaphore flag manufacuters, Message runners, in-building vacuum-tube repair technicians, and most of all clay-tablet and scroll manufacturing.
This guy literally makes me want to break down and cry for the immense ignorance he displays.
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There are more tellers in the USA now then there used to be. In fact the US Government projects that the number of tellers will increase by 6% between 2008 and 2018.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos126...
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While he's at it, he might also blame the men who developed the programmable logic controller that revolutionized industries everywhere since the early 1970s.
Then he might also blame mobile telephony which has helped decrease the industrial workforce.
He should also blame the development of robots that have displaced people on production lines.
In coal, he might also blame those who invented the continuous long-wall miner which has replaced about 90 percent of the miners in bituminous coal seams.
And in [fill in the blank], he might also blame . . .
Neither uninformed and ignorant Obama nor his supposed ace adviser corpse -- oops, meant corps -- have a clue about that which they speak.
Fortunately for them, millions of Americans don't know the same things.
Unfortunately for all of us, though, this is as good as Obama and this thugoadministration gets.
You act like the man writes his own words.
Very seldom do you see The President act off character and actually say whats on his. Each word he says is fed to him.
You notice when he isn't being fed lines (or stooped looking at the prompter)....
Example.