Bush's Kernersville speech
You can read President Bush's Kernersville remarks here.
We have a photo gallery from the visit on our Web site.
The president apparently was a hit at the Deere-Hitachi plant. (Granted, it was a closed audience.)
He delivered a good speech, which actually included some news: His call for businesses to meet pension obligations to their workers.
He also glossed over a few unpleasant details, such as the growing national debt and trade deficits.
His comments about the global economy were apt, and new jobs are being created.
Remember when all you heard was how many jobs had been lost during Bush's presidency? The Democrats who blamed him for every lost job aren't willing to give him credit for jobs created.
Of course, he never deserved much blame or credit. Presidents don't run the economy. Maybe they can influence it a little bit this way or that.
It's still a concern that some new jobs aren't as good as the old ones, that workers are losing health-care and pension benefits, and that overseas competitors are poised to beat us out for high-tech jobs because they have more workers who are better educated. Bush didn't talk much about that, although he did mention North Carolina's community college system and its worker retraining programs.
Congratulations, Kernersville and Deere-Hitachi, for hosting a presidential visit. The last time something like this happened there was when George Washington had breakfast at Dobson's Tavern in 1791. (Scroll down to History.)
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Sorry, Doug. You didn't really think anyone on your blog really wants to talk about really IMPORTANT economic issues or what president's have to say. We'll all white people from north High Point and Jamestown. We're fat, rich and happy. We don't give a crap, right? Everything's just dandy!!! (Here, take my kid, why not? )
The truth is, we can't do much about Enron, Warren Buffet's, Execs making hundreds of times what their workers make, looting of pension plans, foreign competition with coutries where workers make 3$ a day, Al Queda, Avian flu, AIDS, SARS but...when your kid is kidnapped out of his school by crazed, self-righteous people who think they've somehow been voucshafed the divine right to do such a thing from on high, such as yourself and the Dotmeister, who think they, after genuflecting at the feet of world renowned genius and man/god Richard Kallenberg, have discovered the answer to the riddle of life, suddenly all these things we are powerless to stop, all these abstract evils in the world, now kind of get crytallized...RIGHT...ON...YOU!!! Good NIGHT, good luck, and god bless.
Posted on December 5, 2005 10:13 PM
I mean, c'mon doug, I tell you what really irks me about that Dot Kearns. It's not even the choice plan anymore. It's just the name Dot. Like a Dot, like a period or a comma or an exclamation point. A FREAKING DOT.
AHHH, I'M GOING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, sometimes I think it's kinda endearing.
Earthlings, I am not from your world. I am from a galaxy far far away, far from North High Point, where complaining about school superintendents sustains life.
Posted on December 6, 2005 10:16 AM
Ditto
Posted on December 6, 2005 10:32 AM
Right behind ya Candy Boy.
Posted on December 6, 2005 12:19 PM
Skeet Club,
Take solace in the fact that in a few more years (maybe next?) you can specify your vote against Dot, provided she runs again.
Now if she does get re-elected, and there is that possibility because incumbency rocks, you'll just have to accept the fact that the majority has spoken again.
Those are the breaks for better or for worse.
Posted on December 6, 2005 4:40 PM