Which is better 3 million new jobs in the war materials support industry. Or 3 million unemployed Americans???
970951
Those are the jobs Bush created and we have to have them .
786952
This can certainly be argued both ways. Sure, it takes away from jobs at home.  But it has helped to cut costs, streamline organizations and boost profits (which has positive effects on the economy). It strengthens relationships with these countires. I am Canadian.  Working for an American company. I've worked for a few US companies.\nThe U.S., or any country for that matter, can not, in any way possible, supply itself with the materials and support to be entirely self-sufficient.
120250
No. The economy in the US is changing--other jobs are being created here.
394726
I owned a construction business, we did all phases of construction, but too many illegals made it to hard to compete. We did better work, did it faster, had better cust service, yet everything we bid we got cutthroated because the businesses we were doing work for found out that hiring illegals that were " self employed" for 40-50% of our cost was better. They are illegal, therefore don't carry the labor burden and other fixed and variable overhead. If they were gone, those jobs no one wants, will be paying more overnight. For example, with a painting service, painting houses, you could make 1600 a week depending on the size, and thats just for labor, then 15% mark-up on materials. With illegals, materials go for cost, and labor is lower cause they don't pay income taxes, and need to pay for that 1 bedroom apartment with 10 of them in it. So, they do it really really cheap. Americans want these jobs. Not everyone wants to waste time and money becoming over educated. Actually, the most stupid people I know are college educated with no common sence. A piece of paper doesn't mean your smart or properly educated!!
36720
Here's a statistic to blow your mind. The Great Depression caused 1 out of every 3 Americans to be unemployed. Only with Roosevelt's plan of giving them government project work did America rise back up as a renewed superpower.
17904
Assuming they could amass armies and weapons, I'd guess that Gates would be able to amass a much greater amount of personnel and weapons, but that Jobs would be able to inspire them better.\n\nIn the battle of business, Gates has already won a few times.\n\nIf it were a fist fight, my money would be on Jobs.  I think I'd pay to see that, too!
68514
There is no unemployment is Pakistan.... If people forget so-called ego,,,, chaudharyism....or malikism.... If pakistan can handle 3 million afghans then why not pakistanies.... people have made GRADES of work.... otherwise if you are committed to earn then you can earn....
2236
Its because the American worker gets paid to much. Companies have nothing left to put into the actual product. Bring backed forced labor camps and quality will skyrocket.
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We can afford trillion dollar wars though, isn't that a thought?  Some people on here really follow a bigot like BUSH.\n\nAnd to those of you who can't get a job, I am really surprised..you can start your own business!! OMG, there are endless options.\n\nI run my own business, and when I was in the job market, I never had a hard time getting a job.  Get skills, people skills and an education, both work hand in hand and if you posess both there is no reason to blame the illegals for your lack of opportunities.
313436
I believe if America keeps doing focusing on fighting with Iran and Iraq then another country (China or Japan) is going to be the most industrailized and richest. Also, the world is going to be so globalized, we are going to be outsourcing every job possible to keep prices down and to make the big buisnesses even bigger.
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Yahoo Jobs, Google, Parody, or go to job search in any of the search engines and they will direct you to many other sites. These are mostly skilled level jobs and if your looking for unskilled work, go to your local employment office. I'm not trying to be political here but Bush has and is trying to get the unskilled work overseas to the point there will be no unskilled work here that pays much over minimum wage. He wants collage workers only here in this market along with open borders so our uneducated can go to another country with little or no problem. His and his daddy's goal was to have a one world government.
1152942
70 thousand million? I totally agree. Instead of going to Iraq, this money would be much better spent in our education system. 70 thousand million?!?! LOL
573009
Unemployment = not employed\nEmployed = work\n\nUnemployed = not workin\nThey are not contributing to the economy.  Many times they are a burden to the economy by using programs set up by stupid bleeding heart democrats who love to give my money away.  What a way to stimulate economy.  Give money away.  Yeah, then they will want to work more.  Wrong.  Idiots.
196028
Neither.\n\nThey are not a military or economic threat to American because a) they don't really have a military and b) the outsourcing would be done by someone else if not by them.\n\nThe biggest complaint by most uneducated people is that outsourcing will hurt our economy.  When in all actuality, it will force us to create more value-added jobs and head back to school for more advanced degrees.  Outsourcing is a form of forced intellectual advancement.  Either retrain and move upwards or work blue collar where you can’t be replaced.
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You are horribly uneducated.  If you call increasing our national debt by billions of dollars per year being economically sound, what happens when the bottom falls out.  I would hardly call this economy booming.  You also fail to mention that Bill Clinton operated with a budget surplus while Bush operates with a huge deficit.  This may be because of the war, but the war was Bush's main cause.  Oh andby the way how is that war coming along.  There is nor end in site and it could be decades before we are able to withdraw.  When Clinton dealt with Iraq he did it with surgical precision and took care of the situation in Iraq without having any type of extended conflict.  The main difference is that the rest of the world repected Clinton, but no one respects Bush.  You also fail to mention that since our commander in chief took power, not one, but two countries have began enriched uranium programs.  In case you don't know what that means, it means they have the power to make nuclear weapons.  One leader directly said they did it because of our president's attitude toward him.  That is good leadership.  Also, since NAFTA there has been a net increase in American jobs, my college international business teacher stresses that fact all the time.  So while we have lost low paying jobs we havce gained even more higher paying jobs.  Look it up, it is a fact.  Clinton did not fire those workers.  Poor business management fired those workers.  They were fired because they were overpayed by incompetent bosses.  Don't blame a president for that.  And you can thank Bill Clinton for the lower prices you enjoy because of NAFTA.  So good question, actually it is not a good question because you are comparing apples to oranges and your facts are wrong.  Congratulations.\nP.S. and G.W. wants to cut educational spendning, so if you want to go to college someday, he wants to make sure you have to pay more.\nP.P.S. and your wonderfol president wants it to be legal to essentially "spy" on you and every other citizen.
313020
The pay for these jobs is much higher than in the states. Call Halliburton, they hire most of the civilians in Iraq.
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I'm a recently retired Director of Engineering of a large Aerospace company.  All areas of business have their ups and their downs.  On up cycles we couldn't find enough good engineers.  On down cycles we had to lay-off plenty...as much as 35% of the engineering workforce.  However, those that were let go usually found another job within a month or so.  I don't recall many who remained unemployed for too long.  \n\nWe live in a highly technical world, and technology is advancing everyday.  I highly recommend engineering.  The one area that might be a little shakey is computer software engineering.  There is a trend to offload this type of engineering to India, Mexico, Russia etc because of their low labor rates.