Obama now blames The Internet for job losses

Obama now blames The Internet for job losses. “‘If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the internet,’ President Obama said at a campaign event in Kansas.” Possibly the reason for that is the Democrat political circus act hasn’t mandated all sorts of “benefits” like Obamacare coverage for ATMs and the internet yet.

This post was last modified on November 10, 2021

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  • Sounds like someone would be much happier living in Afghanistan. I hear they're looking for a new leader Barry, send your resume'. So far you qualify, I believe Muslim is the only requirement.

  • Too bad we can't buy a machine to cut down on lying socialist politicians. That would really bring the unemployment rate back down.

  • Rush pointed out that in 2006 before the Marxocrats took control of the Senate, the internet and ATM's were widely in use. Unemployment was 4.5%, not 9 or 12 or 16 or however they currently try to spin the numbers.
    Obendover just lies through his teeth, his suckass media swears to it, and the suckers go, "Duh yep. It must be the troot, I heard er on da teevee."

    • Navyvet, now you've done it. Olivia should be in here momentarily screaming we are all Rush lemmings.

    • Rush is right, so the following should be done...

      Ban ATMs & online banking = More bank tellers
      Ban e-mail = More postal workers
      Ban self check out = More cashiers
      Ban online shopping = More retail workers

      ...there are thousands of other examples that could be used, but you get the point. Obama & people who believe is progressivism/socialism/marxism//liberalism do not honestly think people are smart enough to make their own choices in life. They do not understand that it is impossible to make everything equal. But even worse, they are ignorant of this fact, that the smartest socialist cannot make socialism work as well as the dumbest capitalist can make capitalism work. People who barely got past the 10th grade have become created great buisinesses, while the Ivy Leaguers in gov't the last 50-100 years have done their best to screw up everything they touch.

      • "... they (liberals) are ignorant of this fact, that the smartest socialist cannot make socialism work as well as the dumbest capitalist can make capitalism work."
        That is a GREAT quote!!! I'm going to use it. I will give you credit.

      • Don't forget to ban digital cameras of all types. More people working as film developers. And of course, you'd have to ban automated developers. All manual, all the time.

  • A few weeks back I found an article blaming the loss of industry and jobs on "increased productivity" and stating that manufacture had never been higher, 3 times more than in the early 1970s.
    Turns out that when inflation is taken into account, production hadn´t increased but actually fallen.

  • If this jerk had been president in 1900, we'd be still leading the world in buggy whip production. Luddite.