Bush To Cleveland: ‘Anybody Work Here In This Town?’

[sabra]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/20/bush-cleveland-work/

Bush To Cleveland: ‘Anybody Work Here In This Town?’

After getting frustrated at the length of the Q&A session of his speech in Cleveland today, Bush blurted out, “Anybody work here in this town?” Watch it:



Bush inadvertantly hit upon a subject he otherwise ignored - unemployment in Cleveland. Economic conditions in the city have worsened considerably during Bush’s presidency. Some facts:

- 5.8 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.5 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 5.3 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.0 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 31.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2003
- 24.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2001

So the answer, Mr. President, is that a lot of people in Cleveland don’t work because they can’t find jobs.

[xultar]

1. The compassion abounds. What a guy!

[The Backlash Cometh]

38. That's a favorite line of the right-wingers.

Get a job!

They just assume that anyone who has time to think has too much time on their hands. Get a job!

[dogday]

2. Thanks to your economic policies shrub, we

are all unemployed..... You stupid ass......

[Mnemosyne]

49. Even the little kitty can't find work!

Is that your kitten? It is one of the most darling little ones ever! I just had to say so. Thanks for sharing!

[HughBeaumont]

3. Because his policies favor the Cash-And-Skip rich that

run all of our industries, and in turn, our manufacturing jobs out of this town.

[rodeodance]

4. good grief!

[wakeme2008]

5. Sounds like this was not his normal

hand picked crowd.....

[ClintonTyree]

25. Bush sycophants are getting harder to find nowadays.......

it's getting tough to come up with 1,000 people in any city that are still drinking the kool-aid. They figure that letting in a few un-vetted people is better than having empty chairs looking back at bush. What surprises me is that they're allowed to ask questions though. Usually only the, "god bless you president bush" people are allowed to ask question of his assholyness.

[niyad]

6. what an unbelievable ass--and this was probably all repugs he was

talking to. heaven forfend he should actually come across a cross-section of the populace, and he still can't handle it?

I have come to the conclusion that he is incompetent, a liar, and idiot, and completely insane.

[Peanutcat]

7. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
This man cannot be that fucking stupid and be able to walk and breathe at the same time! Maybe that's why he falls down so much: oxygen depravation.

[quiet.american]

9. I second that e-motion. n/t

[Peanutcat]

15. And the brain damage . . . . .

:evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

8. He can't stand to have questions that were screened before hand...

Wah...Wah...Wah.....mommy somebody asked a hard question and I don't want to ruin my beautiful mind!!!!:puke:

A college student asked him how students were supposed to go to school with the cuts to the grants...and * stood there and lied and said they were giving more money for college kids!!!

* is just stupid!!

[anarch]

10. no, not just stupid

Bush is also craven and evil.

[MadMaddie]

14. Definitely Evil!!!

[Peanutcat]

17. Heh.

I don't think he's smart enough to be evil. Evil takes a bit of brains, it does!

[IsItJustMe]

11. Someday we will stop laughing and start crying.

Did you notice the crowds reaction when he said that? Do you think people will ever wake up?

[theHandpuppet]

18. I missed it!

Care to fill me in on the crowd's reaction to our Chief Grits-for-Brains?

[IsItJustMe]

20. Ha Ha Ha Ha. The audience mindlessly laughing.

[berni_mccoy]

12. FRONT PAGE THIS! K&R! His TRUE COLORS shining through

For all America to see... the colors of BUSHIT

[wurzel]

13. There sure was at least one person in Cleveland who doesn't work!

Or in Washinton DC either!

[OhioChick]

16. K&R

No asshat..........no one can find a job in this town! :grr:

BTW........Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) is close to 70% Blue.

[LisaLynne]

19. Oh, no he did NOT!

I mean, I know he did, but how stupid do you have to be to say something like that?

You know, I've seen people lately pointing out that Bush isn't stupid and that calling him stupid and incompetent only gets him off the hook for his evilness, and I see what those people are saying. Yes, Bush is EXTREMELY evil, but on the other hand, you have to be completely STUPID to say something like this. Evil and stupidity. That is what we are witnessing in this man.

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Can't we all just get along? Let's agree he's evil AND stupid. nt

[LisaLynne]

46. See? Bush IS a uniter! nt

[Octafish]

45. Doesn't Cleveland have mangoes?

As far as poor people go, it's their fault, Bushler believes.

Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush

By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON
Crimson Staff Writer

EXCERPT...

Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush’s current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on “Environment Analysis for Management,” incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week.

Tsurumi—now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York—said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class.

Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush’s statements and behavior—“always very shallow”—still stand out in his mind.

“Whenever just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make,” said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice.”

The White House did not reply to requests for comment on Bush’s time at HBS.

Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush’s right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with “an enemy of capitalism.”

“I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they’re lazy,” Tsurumi said.

CONTINUED...

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Some compassion. Got it from his mother.

[helderheid]

21. they applauded???

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. The folks in Cleveland do...what about you, President Numbnuts?

The ones that can't find jobs are probably unemployed because of....you guessed it... Chimpy's policies!!!

Why hasn't this idiot been overthrown yet???????

[maveric]

23. Shecky Bu$h will be performing in the Wrangler Ballroom,Ft Worth Hilton...

Friday and Saturday.
Tickets on sale at the office of Homeland Security through Thursday.*
* Oath of Allegiance and Loyalty required.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Arrogant A$$hole! Proving once again how much he doesn't give

a RAT'S ASS about Americans who aren't overflowing with cash! IOW the IDLE RICH! which he represents in spades! :grr:

[Sleepless In NY]

26. Ohio voted for bush? Sherrod Brown put this in a campaign ad!

Brown would be foolish not to point out how bush's policies had such a negative effect on this state. I don't know how Democrats can't win in Ohio given the stats posted here & all the corruption besides. The laughter reminds me of the response Bush use to get with his "Lucky me, I hit the Trifecta" " 9/11 "joke" at GOP fund raisers..what's so funny?

[tanyev]

27. In other words, "Don't ya'll have anything better to do than listen to me

blather on and on and on?"

Asshat.

Edit: The photo in the OP says it all. He's got that tightly pursed lips, "you people are really pissing me off" expression.

[elehhhhna]

28. They are waiting for onion-pulling season, duh George.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

39. Onion PLUCKING he said!

and I will never let him forget it.

[knitter4democracy]

29. Wasn't he at City Club?

People listen to that on the radio and make special arrangements to go to that. So, yeah, they were working that day but made it so they could be there. It can tend conservative, though, so it's encouraging that he was getting grilled.

What an idiot. :eyes:

[OzarkDem]

31. Ringing the bell at the City Club

is a longstanding tradition before a speaker or debate. For what must have been the first time in City Club history, the blivet put his hands on the bell to make it stop ringing. He must have had a big hangover...

[knitter4democracy]

35. Ummm . . .

That is odd. Of course, I'm not that suprised . . .

[OzarkDem]

40. Weird pic of him grabbing the bell

[Kerrytravelers]

30. Sometimes, I can't believe that I haven't been asleep since 2000

and that this all isn't a bad dream--- strike that- it's a nightmare!

[geniph]

33. No, Shit-for-Brains, they all get 16 weeks of vacation a year

just like you!

:mad:

[Ksec]

34. No bush , we fkin dont thanks to assholes like you.

Go figure, the assholes outsource all our jobs then have the balls to ask that question. Fk you george.

[salin]

36. Once again he drops the mask... and shows his

arrogant, petulant and totally out-of-touch lsef.

[rateyes]

37. Gooo oollllllllllee eeeeeeeeeee!!!!

I hope that every Democratic Politician (especially in Ohio) has that little line in their campaign commercials in 2006. He has got to be THE most stupid person ever to occupy ANY position of authority.

[IndyOp]

41. If unemployment were calculated today as it was in 1980 it would be 12% -

If unemployment were calculated today as it was in 1980 (when Reagan took office) we would report that unemployment is 12%, nationwide.

My source: Thom Hartmann from Air America.

:grr:

[Robeysays]

42. i had a republican/ libertarian econ proffresser...

he gave us this sheet with unemployment numbers on it, with the usual nations on it(western Europe, Canada, mexico, china, U.S... etc...) and of course all the "socialist" nations were at 7-12% unemployed, the developing world at 10ish% and the U.S. was at 4.3%. the whole time he went on about how europe is soooooo stupid with the unemployment rate soooo high. and that there were so many people living on the dole. so i did the research and the math and showed him at the time by the years listed, the U.S. was at a whopping 14% unemployed. then i gave him a essay on how those other nations take care of there unemployed and that people live longer, healthier lives. plus a report about education and literacy rates. passed the whole thing out to every one in class. he nearly kicked me out of the course. score one for logic.



Robey

[IndyOp]

44. Wow! Good job, Robey! (n/t)

:hi:

[glitch]

54. What IndyOp said. Of course he wanted to toss you, you proved him an idiot

to the entire class. Beautiful!

[slaveplanet]

51. It's even worse than that

If you were to look through the employment ads in Cleveland or pretty much everywhere. The great bulk of offerings are from agencies. They offer these "temp" positions and they rotate everyone out after 89 days so they don't have to pay full benefits. So yep, there are definetly people who have time to show up and question Bush.

Largest Employers
The following employers (private and public) had the largest work forces in the
County as of January 1, 2003 (except as otherwise noted):

Nature of Activity, Approximate Number of
Employer or Business Full-time Equivalent Employees


Cleveland Clinic Health System, Health care, 23,567
University Hospitals Health System, Health care, 14,270
Cleveland Municipal School District, Public school district, 10,510
The County, County government, 8,851(a)
The City, Municipal government, 8,658
Progressive Corp., Insurance 7,557
KeyCorp Financial services, 7,381
Ford Motor Co., Automotive, 6,765
U.S. Postal Service, U.S. mail, 5,548
The MetroHealth System, Health care, 5,411
National City Corp., Financial services, 5,400
Case Western Reserve University, Higher education, 5,249
Continental Airlines, Commercial airline, 3,363
State of Ohio, State government, 2,914
General Motors Corp., Automotive, 2,816
Caritas Healthcare Partnership, Health care, 2,800
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Public trans, 2,719
Sherwin-Williams Co., Manufacture and sale of paint/products, 2,538
GE Lighting(b), Manufacturer of lighting products, 2,457
Riser Foods Co., Retail and wholesale food distribution, 2,320
Nestle USA Food Group, Frozen prepared foods, refrigerated
products, novelty ice cream, frozen bars, 2,245
United Parcel Service, Package delivery, 2,203
MBNA Marketing Systems, Banking, 2,200
Tops Friendly Markets, Retail and wholesale food distribution, 2,196
American Greetings Corp., Manufacturer of greeting cards, 2,109
Lincoln Electric Co., Manufacturer of arc welding products,
thermal cutting products and electric motors, 2,018
Charter One Bank, Banking, 1,960
Medical Mutual of Ohio, Insurance, 1,865
Cuyahoga Community College, Community college, 1,728
Kaiser Permanente, Health maintenance organization, 1,689
Cleveland State University, Higher education, 1,685
Rockwell Automation, Industrial automation, 1,680
Parma City School District, Public school district, 1,629
Plain Dealer, Newspaper, 1,600
Alcoa Forged Products, Metal products manufacturer, 1,550
Discount Drug Mart, Retail drug chain, 1,430
Parma Community General Hospital, Health care, 1,406
OfficeMax, Inc.(c), Retail sales, 1,344
Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation, Mental retardation and developmental disabilities services, 1,304
Scott Fetzer Co., Diversified manufacturer, 1,203
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, housing authority, 1,140
Cleveland Hts.-University Hts. School District, Public
school district, 1,133
Ernst & Young LLP, Professional services firm, 1,025
Phillips Medical Systems, Manufacturer of medical equipment, 1,000
Pioneer-Standards Electronics, Electronics distributor, 956
K-Mart Corporation Discount, retailer, 900
Euclid City School District, Public school district, 893
Lakewood City School District, Public school district, 848
Eaton Corp., Diversified industrial manufacturer,832
PPG Industries, Inc., Automotive coatings, 826
Shaker Heights City School District, Public school district, 817
J.C. Penney Co., Department store, 750
Ferro Corp., Performance materials for manufacturers, 704


(a) As of July 21, 2003.
(b) In 2002, GE announced plans to combine its appliances and lighting businesses into a single business called GE Consumer
Products to be headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, but to maintain a substantial presence in the County.
(c) In July, 2003 Boise Cascade announced its plan to acquire OfficeMax, Inc. The effect of that acquisition on OfficeMax, Inc.
employment and operations is not yet known to the County.
Sources: Crain’s Cleveland Business, March 10, 2003, and, as to the County, the County.

Source: COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, OHIO
2003
ANNUAL INFORMATIONAL STATEMENT
IN CONNECTION WITH BONDS AND NOTES OF THE COUNTY

Much has changed since 2003....from right off the top of my head, officemax and Kmart are gone...there are probably lots of changes with these figures.

You'll notice lots of healthcare(which is probably growing from the enormous new profits) and public employment.

Insurance and other financial scamsters holding steady

Manufacturing destroyed or under heavy attack

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. "Don't anybody got any hands fer clappin' here?"

What Bush probably would say if he visited Walter Reed's rehab wing and was frustrated by a chilly reception.

[AuntiBush]

47. Oh...

WORSE EVER! Makes me absolutely sick.

[tabasco]

48. Like asswipe Bush has ever worked a day in his life.

What a disgrace to our Nation to have this boob as our President.

[glitch]

55. He thinks partying with cronies is hard work. Now where's that pic of him

eating cake with McCain...

[Usrename]

50. He says Al Qaeda will be our ally.

I just watched that clown on C-SPAN. The retarded idiot was asked about who the enemy was, who the terrorists are - AND I SHIT YOU NOT - the imbecile rambled on about how Japan was our enemy once and are now our ally, and the same thing will happen in the future with this enemy.

My ears are bleeding. Have to go apply some first-aid. :nuke:

[Pachamama]

52. Seriously - Did he actually say that? How compassionate!

Guess no one told old Dubya that the unemployment rate in Cleveland and the state of Ohio ain't what it used to be....

[CrispyQ]

53. Whan an infuckingsensitive dolt! --nt

:banghead:

[Atman]

56. So, double those unemployment rates to account for the Bush Factor

and you'll have something closer to the actual Cleveland unemployment rate.