Somebody should tell Obama that, in fact, there are MORE bank tellers than ever. His opinion is in sync with his anti-business narrative, but not with the facts.
As usual, Churc. has his facts wrong. President Obama did not blame high unemployment on a.t.m.s. He used a.t.m.s as an example of technology changing the demand for human workers, namely bank tellers. He used this example as support for his reasonable point that people must educate themselves for different jobs nowadays.
¶As for high unemployment, we have had high unemployment ever since Bush-Dick tanked the economy in his first years. Then, when he super-tanked it in his last years, unemployment, which had never recovered, skyrocketed. It was shooting up to eight percent when Bush-Dick’s Justice Roberts ineptly swore in Obama.¶Here is what Obama said:¶ANN CURRY (host, NBC’s Today): You’re here encouraging private sector hiring. This just after The New York Times just past — this past Friday reported that since the recovery began, businesses have spent just 2 percent more on hiring people, while at the same time spending 26 percent more on equipment. So why, at a time when corporate America is enjoying record profits have you been unable to convince businesses to hire more people, Mr. President?¶OBAMA: Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of me being unable to convince them to hire more people. They’re making decisions based on what they think will be good for their companies. A couple of things have happened. Look, we went through the worst crisis since the Great Depression. We are now in a process where the economy is growing again, and we’ve created 2 million jobs over the last 15 months. But it’s not as fast as it needs to be to make up for all the jobs that were lost.¶The other thing that happened, though, and this goes to the point you were just making, is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM; you don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. So all these things have created changes in the economy, and what we have to do now — and that’s what this job council is all about — is identifying where the jobs for the future are going to be; how do we make sure that there’s a match between what people are getting trained for and the jobs that exist; how do we make sure that capital is flowing into those places with the greatest opportunity. We are on the right track. The key is figuring out how do we accelerate it. [NBC, Today, 6/14/11] ¶Kim, you needn’t call Churc. names. Leave such admissions of failure to him. He is consistently wrong, from his moniker on down. Winston Churchill did not make the statement about when to be liberal & when to be conservative. After all, it would have made no sense. Churchill was a Conservative at age 21 and a Liberal some ten years later.¶When Churchill left the Liberals and re-joined the Conservatives, after having left them for the Liberals, he did say, “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat”.¶Churc. does not have this ingenuity. He voted for Bush-Dick. He voted for his John McCain & Sarah Palin, and he now supports Michelle Bachmann. He has never admitted that he was wrong to support the man who almsot ruined America. He has neither backbone nor brains.
fargopete almost 13 years ago
One cartoon 20 years late.
pirate227 almost 13 years ago
Nope, those robots in manufacturing plants have nothing to do with people losing jobs…
pwroblewski almost 13 years ago
Somebody should tell Obama that, in fact, there are MORE bank tellers than ever. His opinion is in sync with his anti-business narrative, but not with the facts.
pwroblewski almost 13 years ago
I don’t know about the mailmen. Is that true or are you “making a funny”?
BrianCrook almost 13 years ago
As usual, Churc. has his facts wrong. President Obama did not blame high unemployment on a.t.m.s. He used a.t.m.s as an example of technology changing the demand for human workers, namely bank tellers. He used this example as support for his reasonable point that people must educate themselves for different jobs nowadays.
¶As for high unemployment, we have had high unemployment ever since Bush-Dick tanked the economy in his first years. Then, when he super-tanked it in his last years, unemployment, which had never recovered, skyrocketed. It was shooting up to eight percent when Bush-Dick’s Justice Roberts ineptly swore in Obama.¶Here is what Obama said:¶ANN CURRY (host, NBC’s Today): You’re here encouraging private sector hiring. This just after The New York Times just past — this past Friday reported that since the recovery began, businesses have spent just 2 percent more on hiring people, while at the same time spending 26 percent more on equipment. So why, at a time when corporate America is enjoying record profits have you been unable to convince businesses to hire more people, Mr. President?¶OBAMA: Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of me being unable to convince them to hire more people. They’re making decisions based on what they think will be good for their companies. A couple of things have happened. Look, we went through the worst crisis since the Great Depression. We are now in a process where the economy is growing again, and we’ve created 2 million jobs over the last 15 months. But it’s not as fast as it needs to be to make up for all the jobs that were lost.¶The other thing that happened, though, and this goes to the point you were just making, is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM; you don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. So all these things have created changes in the economy, and what we have to do now — and that’s what this job council is all about — is identifying where the jobs for the future are going to be; how do we make sure that there’s a match between what people are getting trained for and the jobs that exist; how do we make sure that capital is flowing into those places with the greatest opportunity. We are on the right track. The key is figuring out how do we accelerate it. [NBC, Today, 6/14/11] ¶Kim, you needn’t call Churc. names. Leave such admissions of failure to him. He is consistently wrong, from his moniker on down. Winston Churchill did not make the statement about when to be liberal & when to be conservative. After all, it would have made no sense. Churchill was a Conservative at age 21 and a Liberal some ten years later.¶When Churchill left the Liberals and re-joined the Conservatives, after having left them for the Liberals, he did say, “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat”.¶Churc. does not have this ingenuity. He voted for Bush-Dick. He voted for his John McCain & Sarah Palin, and he now supports Michelle Bachmann. He has never admitted that he was wrong to support the man who almsot ruined America. He has neither backbone nor brains.