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- c0mputar, on 08/04/2008, -7/+169Sad is that I didn't realize it was the onion until Elaine Chao started speaking like an idiot too.
- readacook, on 08/05/2008, -0/+125Ah, this reminds me of a girl in English 2 my freshman year of college.
Girl: "The story I brought in is about the president signing the Bush Dynasty Protection Act so he won't have term limits."
Professor: "Really? And where was this reported?"
Girl: I found it online, it's called "The..Onion?" - Codzilla, on 08/05/2008, -0/+52"Show up early and bring a broom. Sweep up the place while you're waiting for the interview to start."
I tried that...the janitor kicked my ass for trying to take his job!!! - pintomp3, on 08/05/2008, -2/+44his entire life is one big union article:
"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —President George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism- ... - FlaG8r, on 08/05/2008, -7/+45This is the most plausible article I've seen in the Onion. I'm guessing FonzsXe won't be the only one to take it seriously.
- centure7, on 08/05/2008, -2/+36Oh my God! I didn't realize it was an Onion article either until I got bored of reading it near the bottom and scrolled up to the top! Guess I should have read the comments first :)
- alpha19, on 08/05/2008, -2/+31What's a Commander and Chief?
- balbeit, on 08/05/2008, -2/+30This is the Onion. They make up quotes to be funny.
Please don't try and "deflect" the intention of the article away from humor, as you attempted to. - asus2000, on 08/05/2008, -3/+30Dammit, they caught me too. I find it hilarious that I thought it was real.. How pathetic Dubya is that people would believe he would act so unprofessional, so unpresidential!
- gametavern, on 08/05/2008, -14/+40You're damn right get a job. There is ALWAYS a job, sorry if you don't think it's perfect for you. Take it, and quit bitching.
Sounds like Lloyd and Harry
"There isn't a single job in this TOWN, nothing, nada zip"
"Yeah, unless you wanna work 40 hours a week!!!" - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+24He's got TWO JOBS mon.
- andnever, on 08/05/2008, -3/+21i honestly thought this was real until i saw the source...kinda sad
- littlebylittle, on 08/05/2008, -2/+20"Standing in line marking time--
Waiting for the welfare dime
cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun he says get a job"
-- Bruce Hornsby - ColorBlind, on 08/05/2008, -2/+20hilarious
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -12/+29WTF?!!!!
BUSH BANKRUPTED EVERY COMPANY HE OWNED!!!!
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Arbusto Energy Corp.
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Spectrum 7 Corp.
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Bush Exploration Company
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Harken Energy Corp.
Consider the above pattern to complete the following sentence:
GW Bush Jr has __________ the United States of America.
With a track record like that, anyone that would re-elect Bush would have to be a complete Retard! Who in Bazzaro land would re-elect this nutcase?!!
I'm sure all you Neo-the-Candyass-Clown-Os can thank FOX "news" for making you the stupidest motherfukers on the planet!!!!!
http://cronus.com/bushresume/ - Aadain, on 08/05/2008, -2/+17Future GOP strategy planner that one.
- MaxPayne3476, on 08/05/2008, -0/+15I had exactly the same thing happen in my Sociology class. It was a current event assignment and she stands up
"President Bush basically said that going to Iraq was fun and that he would do it again."
I had to just start laughing. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -3/+17*****! I fell for it, too. God we've really sunk as a nation, when a story like this actually sounds plausible.
- seso, on 08/05/2008, -0/+12I had a professor with a great sense of humour show the class this article on the first day of an archaeology course:
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29976 - serif69, on 08/05/2008, -0/+12So that's where Cirque du Soleil comes from...
- SenoraObscura, on 08/05/2008, -4/+15Way too articulate to be Bush. Step it up, Onion!
- Dested, on 08/05/2008, -3/+14Every one of those 21 (currently) diggs up is for one of us that was duped. They got me for the first time in about a year. His quotes were so outrages but you just say to yourself, well thats bush.
Really sad in a way. - oddtom, on 08/05/2008, -0/+9No, one song is about how hard it is for some people to get by in life. The other is about a low life waste of air justifying robbing an innocent woman to himself. One evokes sympathy, the other a curbstomping. See the difference?
- ysaberi, on 08/05/2008, -1/+11One way to cut costs to avoid bankruptcy.
- helleborus, on 08/05/2008, -3/+13He threw crazy people at the homeless people and told them all to find jobs?
- Arghblarg, on 08/05/2008, -3/+13Loonies.. Canadian dollar coins. Picture of an arctic loon (bird) on them. You may have been joking, but just in case you weren't, there ya go.
- jordansampson, on 08/05/2008, -2/+12In Alberta we had a premier that actually went to a homeless shelter and threw loonies at them telling them to "get a job".... he promised to quit drinking and we reelected him. Best premier ever!
- KirbyMeister, on 08/05/2008, -2/+11I seriously raged and thought this was real until I saw it was from The Onion.
Then I lol'd. - itstodd, on 08/05/2008, -3/+12We are at 5.7%. 5% is considered full employment. He should have said, HEY YOU.7% get a ***** job!
- nard3456, on 08/05/2008, -3/+12in all seriousness that would be my response
- SteveSgt, on 08/05/2008, -2/+11I assure you that there is not ALWAYS a job. That's a comment borne of ignorance or inexperience.
I know several people with advanced degrees business or technical degrees, not finding work in their fields, being rejected over and over again from more entry-level and even just plain blue-collar jobs because they "have too much experience" or some other nonsense excuse. Some of these people have been out of work for going on 2 years, and have spent every day looking, using their remaining limited means. At this point, these people WOULD flip burgers, except that those places won't hire someone with an MS in bio-mechanical engineering, a PHd in public relations, or an MS in education to describe a few folks I know. - BlockedUser, on 08/05/2008, -9/+17The government fired tons of state workers in California last week. Good advice.
- vivisimonvi, on 08/05/2008, -2/+9Anyone remember that article ago from the Onion that accurately predicted everything Bush has already done? What everyone didn't realize it was written almost 8 years ago.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784?utm_sou ... - GVR90, on 08/05/2008, -7/+14Really? Because there is a lot of truth in humour.
- SouthsideIrish, on 08/05/2008, -0/+7I don't want to be on the side of the Arnold, but he didn't have much choice in the matter the way the budget law was written, and that was what he was supposed to do. Blame the House and Senate in California for not passing a budget, cause Arnold is just doing what he is supposed to do under the law that the House and Senate passed.
- RomeyRome, on 08/05/2008, -1/+7Sounds like good advise. Life will knock you down. Either pull yourself up or sit there & whine about it. If all you know how to do is swing a hammer... Well, then that's your fault.
- mikesly, on 08/05/2008, -7/+13Will Do Commander and Chief! I will get that job at Burger King!
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 08/05/2008, -0/+6Ulysses Grant and Warren Harding spring to mind. You think we have corruption now? Just crack a history book sometime and look at those two admins.
Hoover ***** up royally when the Great Depression hit, pretty much ignoring it.
As someone mentioned before, Buchanan royally screwed up leading into the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson screwed up royally after the Civil War, instituting Reconstruction and pretty much raping the South. Lincoln had a much more lenient plan, but that was tossed out the window after he was killed.
Think the Patriot Act is bad? How about the Sedition Act under John Adams that made it illegal to badmouth the Federalist Party?
Or perhaps the Skanch(sp) Act under Woodrow Wilson in WWI that made it illegal to badmouth the war effort?
You like lots of executive power? How about the rampant expansion of executive power under Teddy Roosevelt?
Or how about Gitmo? Bush didn't throw an entire ethnic group in concentration camps like FDR did to Japanese Americans.
Maybe Richard Nixon rings a bell? He would have undoubtedly been impeached. For all the bluster against Bush, impeachment is a long shot.
Sure, a lot of this can be debated, but saying that Bush is the worst president ever may be a bit much if you've actually read something more than a grade-school history book. - ekdevdas, on 08/05/2008, -3/+9Yeah it's so sad when this is believable.
- psrobert, on 08/05/2008, -5/+11If only Bush would say something like this. People should realize that they're responsible for themselves...
- nepidae, on 08/05/2008, -1/+6The worst thing is the article is from 2004.
- Typhoon2009, on 08/05/2008, -3/+8I just got a job today. More like 8.19 million amirite?
- corytv, on 08/05/2008, -7/+12Although the Onion is clearly satire, (and I think it would be funnier without the Hoover bit, which is just overdoing it...) it did get me thinking, what has Unemployment been like in the US historically? And I found out something which shocked me--
Look at this chart
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/j/jensena/sfp/us/rec_une ...
Bush is just like his father-- Unemployment grew his entire administration. Can this be a coincidence, considering his advisers are all his father's? Cheney, Baker et all are all Bush I people-- the worst, fake kind of Neocons.
Interesting how unemployment bottomed out during Reagan and Clinton, and rose during Bush(es). Reagan ran the deficit up, but at least we got better employment. Both bushes gave us record deficits, recessions, and skyrocketing unemployment. Great genetics at play there.. But hey, at least big Oil is doing fine!
/not a liberal. - mkoby, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4Interesting as your point is, it's flawed for a couple of reasons.
1) Bush took office right around the time of the dotcom bubble burst which helped unemployment rates jump because guess what? When companies are closing, people become unemployed. This is a REALLY big deal as some would argue we've never completely recovered from this.
2) When you look at the numbers for both the Clinton era and W. Bush's administration. Bush's overal average unemployment rate is actually a hair smaller than Clinton's (and I didn't count Clinton's Aug-Dec because Bush hasn't had his last 4 months yet). Now it depends on what happens over the next 4 months that will determine who had the better overall unemployment rate, however I'm willing to bet that they come out about the same. Also when you put both the dates and values into Excel side by side, Both Bush/Clinton have similar rates for the time of the year. For example, Bush in 8/2005 had an unemployment rate of 4.9 while Clinton in 8/1997 had 4.8.
When you discuss unemployment you have to to consider the time of the rate, what was going on economically at the time. Realistically though, unemployment hasn't changed DRASTICALLY since Bush took office, it's just something anti-Bush folks want to push. - inactive, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4No. 5% is normal for US. it hovers around 5%. give or take a percent. Look at historic records.
- CrackyJSquirrel, on 08/05/2008, -3/+7Unemployment aside, I am high, and getting higher..
- camiller, on 08/05/2008, -0/+3Actually was down or flat from '03-'07 and is still half what it was in '82-'83.
better graphs from a broader time range here: http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?da ... - bmoretz82, on 08/05/2008, -1/+5That's just the way it is.
- inactive, on 08/05/2008, -5/+9That's actually one of the best speeches I've heard in a long time. Speaks the truth for a majority of the unemployed. :P
- KyjL, on 08/05/2008, -0/+4Financial Analyst: "Sir! The Loonie is down!"
Canadian Prime Minister: "Well isn't that SPECIAL?" -
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