[dirtboy]

"I fully understand what you're saying. In other words, as technology races through the economy, a lot of times worker skills don't keep up with technological change."

Bush just lost several thousand tech worker votes with this line. There are millions of tech workers with more-than-adequate skills who are out of work because of H1-B and L1 visas and outsourcing. So what is the lesson to high school and college students? Work hard, get a tech degree, and look forward to a career at Home Depot.

[samuel_adams_us]

Or in SFB's words, "Leave no child behind" so that I can send your job overseas!

[MEG33]

Fax or phone him.Inform him.

[Wolfie]

What's the point really. (Other than pointing the Bush has to be an idiot to believe this). Folks whose jobs aren't on the line now won't care anymore now than when the manufacturing workers who were losing their job 10-20 years ago.

[Southack]

"I fully understand what you're saying. In other words..."

"Bush just lost several thousand tech worker votes with this line." - Dirtboy

All that Bush did was to rephrase what the reporter asked him. People do that every day simply to insure that they have fully understood a question being asked of them.

And if several thousand tech workers can't understand that simple fact, then they aren't smart enough to be employed in America.

[Fpimentel]

There are plenty of tech jobs starting at $35,000 per year in Southern California. The whiners who say they can't find any work in the tech industry are turning down jobs that pay $35,000 to $60,000 per year. If you have the skills you will get paid well, if you are a wannabe who was riding the dot com bubble you will get washed out.

[mhking]

So what is the lesson to high school and college students? Work hard, get a tech degree, and look forward to a career at Home Depot.

What!? He repeated the clarification of the phrasing of the question and now he's vilified even more for it?!? Feh. More liberal clap-trap. Yet another reason to beat up on GW...

[snippy_about_it]

Well said dirtboy, you are absolutely correct. It's H1-B and L1 all the way to the corporate bank while our own get left behind!

[SAMWolf]

Bush just lost several thousand tech worker votes with this line. There are millions of tech workers with more-than-adequate skills who are out of work because of H1-B and L1 visas and outsourcing. So what is the lesson to high school and college students? Work hard, get a tech degree, and look forward to a career at Home Depot.

My company is almos 2/3rds H1-B employees, while there are plenty of Americans with the skills looking for work. We also recently cut 14 employees about half of whose jobs are now being done by someone in the Philippines.

[Freeper Lady]

You are so right. What he said is an insult to me and to thousands of other high-tech workers.

I was laid-off in May, 2001. Despite a one-year massive job search I could not get back in the field. I decided to change course and start a new career, in my upper forties, and return to college.

I know for a fact there are plenty of foreigners sitting in jobs I can do.

Bush, send 'em home a give an American, a citizen, a job!!

I have had enough.

[VadeRetro]

Bush just lost several thousand tech worker votes with this line.

This at best shows cluelessness. It's not going to play well the next time he sets out to sell folks that his team has all the answers we need.

[gore_sux]

Huh? I don't even think he was referring to tech jobs. He's probably referring more to the high paying "nut-runner" jobs that a trained monkey can do.

As the world advances technologically, these "nut-runner" jobs keep getting passed down to the lease advanced societies.

[MatthewViti]

and because we just sold your jobs to India.

[stainlessbanner]

Agreed - worker skills are not the issue - it's about cheap labor. And for the record, the article IS about IT.