Show us the jobs, Mr. President

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Now I know most of you reading this are either doing so at work or at school, so I'm not surprised that you won't be able to approach this with an open mind. But this is an interesting Web site, and its cause is well-intended enough, so I think you should keep this Web site in mind when most of you receive your larger-than-usual-thanks-to-Bush's-tax-cut refund check.

 

Source

 

Here is just a little bit of what this group has to say...

 

Every day in America, 85,444 people lose their jobs. Since President George W. Bush took office, the nation has lost 2.8 million jobs. Not only are millions of U.S. workers looking for jobs, but the long-term unemployment rate—when workers have been jobless for six months or more—is the highest in more than 20 years.

 

Few jobs are being created, and too often, the jobs available do not provide family-supporting wages, health care and retirement security. In fact, America’s middle class is under attack. More and more American jobs are being moved offshore—up to 14 million white-collar jobs in the next few years, according to some studies—and those jobs aren’t coming back. Meanwhile, health care and retirement security are out of reach for many of America’s working families.

 

What's really heartbreaking is that this Web site puts a face on 51 of those that have been a victim of the Bush Recession. And they're from every state, pluse the D.C. area, which goes to show that people are losing jobs EVERYWHERE.

 

Grand Forks, North Dakota

 

Chuck, 43, has been an air traffic controller at the Grand Forks airport since 1992. He is deeply concerned by President Bush’s efforts to privatize the industry, because privatization will compromise passengers’ safety.

 

My Story

 

When Bush came into office, he vowed to privatize 850,000 jobs. He’s trying really hard to accomplish this goal, and one of the industries he’s targeting is air traffic control.

 

Even though there was bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to prohibit air traffic control from being contracted, the White House intervened and pulled off an 11th-hour coup to reverse Congress’s common sense decision.

 

The Bush administration has put the Grand Forks International Air Traffic Control Tower, along with 68 other FAA facilities across the country, on the auction block.

 

Lawmakers have claimed that all these towers are located at rural, low-activity airports, but Grand Forks is the 42nd busiest airport in the country, working over 295,500 takeoffs and landings in 2002. Grand Forks is also the 11th busiest tower in the country in general aviation takeoffs and landings. By comparison, New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport was the 40th busiest airport with roughly 301,000 operations.

 

Privatization of air traffic control would seriously jeopardize the safety of our skies, because the first place that cuts would be made is staffing. Understaffing controllers will lead to an increased incident/accident rate. It would transfer the safety of the millions of passengers who fly each year from the hands of trained federal professionals to staff working for companies more concerned about cutting corners in the name of profit than promoting safety.

 

Privatization has failed miserably in other countries, from both financial and safety perspectives. I don’t want to see the same happen here in the United States. Frankly, if my tower gets privatized, I’ll retire. I refuse to put passengers in danger all in the name of the dollar.

 

The worst part about it is that the flying public wouldn’t even know that this is going on until disaster strikes and there is an accident.

 

President Bush’s administration has been all about supporting big businesses to put more money in his campaign war chest at the expense of the American worker. If he spent half as much time on domestic issues as he has trying to find Osama bin Laden, this country would be great again.

 

And for those that think this is some kind of joke, here's a picture of Chuck...

 

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Ha, 38 views with no replies. This just proves that I'M WINNING...

[bob_barron 0]

Despicable.

 

 

None of this would've happened had Al Gore not stolen the election

[Ripper 0]

Everyone is just in awe of how manly Chuck is.

 

Ripper - not gay but if he was....

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Ripper - not gay but if he was....

If you were living an alternative lifestyle, you wouldn't have such an offensive Avatar. Just so you know I just alerted a mod of your disturbing picture...

[Styles 0]

Ripper - not gay but if he was....

If you were living an alternative lifestyle, you wouldn't have such an offensive Avatar. Just so you know I just alerted a mod of your disturbing picture...

KKK, I'm disapointed in you. What's this "alternative lifestyle" crap? Homosexuals, bisexuals and caninesexuals are just as "mainstream" as anyone else out there. Come on, 21st century people. What, are womyn "alternative people" too?

 

As for the post topic, it's sickening. How many have to lose their jobs and their lives, Mr. Bush before you've stolen enough oil and land to sattisfy your Zioni$t Nazi regime?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

KKK, I'm disapointed in you. What's this "alternative lifestyle" crap? Homosexuals, bisexuals and caninesexuals are just as "mainstream" as anyone else out there. Come on, 21st century people. What, are womyn "alternative people" too?

Sadly, as much as we all are one in the same, there are some out there that think otherwise (Many of them live in those "red" states). Now I'm not insulting them, but you have to talk in a manner even they can understand. Otherwise, how else can you get them to come to your side of the debate?...