Bush: We get oil from some parts of the world. They simply don't like us.

[Human Torch]

President Bush, gestures as he delivers a Labor Day speech at the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education in Piney Point, Md., Monday, Sept. 4, 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)

PINEY POINT, Md. -- President Bush marked Labor Day on Monday by promising to help keep U.S. workers competitive in global markets and reduce U.S reliance on foreign oil so it doesn't choke U.S. economic expansion. "Dependence on foreign oil jeopardizes our capacity to grow," Bush said in a speech focused on the U.S. economy - a key issue in November elections that will determine whether the GOP retains control of the House and Senate.

Democrats contend the middle class isn't enjoying the benefits of recent U.S. economic gains. They say sluggish median earnings show paychecks have failed to keep pace with inflation, and they note rising health care and energy costs.

Average prices at the gas pump have eased over the past month from more than $3 for a gallon for unleaded regular gasoline to $2.79. That has given Americans some relief, but Bush warned against continued reliance on oil-producing countries where the United States is unpopular.

"The problem is we get oil from some parts of the world and they simply don't like us," Bush said. "And so the more dependent we are on that type of energy, the less likely it will be that we are able to compete, and so people have good, high-paying jobs."

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Only to a simpleton

[CJCRANE]

2. Everyone likes money.

Just give 'em the money and buy the oil.

It's the bombs they don't like.

[tularetom]

3. Huh??? That last sentence makes no sense at all

But I guess that goes without saying for any * speech.

[mcscajun]

4. Both of his last two sentences are bizarre, and subject to the ever-

popular Bushbot follow-up "What the President MEANT to say WAS..."

[rodeodance]

8. oh, its just that 'folksy' talk that people like.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Spare yourself. Trying to decipher and understand his speeches

only leads to "brain-strain" and is harmful to your health, emotional and physical.

[Rageneau]

14. Nothing Smirk says makes sense until after the WaHoPo rewrites i.

Everything Bush said today will eventually be phrased in perfect English on the White House website and in right-wing media outlets like the Washington Post. They'll fix this speech up until it looks like someone reasonably intelligent made it.

They do it with mirrors.

[mcscajun]

5. "Just make sure I don't run into the wall"

Before his outdoor remarks, Bush spent time "steering" a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in a simulation room where he was surrounded by video screens offering him a panoramic view of the harbor in Baltimore and gurgling sounds of water.

"Just make sure I don't run into the wall," he joked.

Too late.

[rodeodance]

6. it is that simple to the little mind.

[msongs]

7. WHY don't they like us, George? did you answer that question?

the answer is in your mirror.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[durrrty libby]

10. This ranks right up there with his top idiotic speeches

Does he ever make a point or say anything that makes sense?

:hurts: :spank:

[az chela]

11. Reptilian George

makes a 4 year old sound brilliant.
My question is why doesnt he get it that he should shut up,walk away and go to Crawford and clear brush and just STAY there.
Everytime he opens his mouth he makes people cringe and just think what the other
countries think of our midget ruler.

[Disturbed]

12. Isn't he kissing buddies with the Saudi Royals?

Is he referring to Canada?

[FloridaPat]

13. But exporting good paying jobs is good for the economy? Are we

suppose to make the good paying jobs here and then export them? Is that the idea? And don't we have to have a good education system to compete?

[Deja Q]

16. We don't have good executives or leaders.

And they are not solving anything by shifting everything to the areas of the world that don't like us.

Globalization is a farce. Period.

[Deja Q]

15. Here are some facts:

Gas is 33 cents per liter in Beijing (more or less 70 cents/gallon), and I merely stumbled on that tidbit.

And the reason why high-paying jobs don't exist in America is because corporations are teaming up with those countries that don't like us. That's not exactly a good way to maintain one's long-earned status of superiority...

This talk of 'competition' is bafflegab until one realizes it's about dropping the wages on the American worker. I have no problem with that, except that the costs OF living aren't going down to compensate for the lowered wages. And, in the countries we're offshoring to, it is damningly clear that the cost of living is fairly tolerable when combined with the wages they are getting.

[JAbuchan08]

17. What could they possibly dislike about us?

besides our freedoms

[butterfly77]

18. They don't like his stupid ass,

[Disturbed]

19. 911 Attack was in the planning stage long before

the Busholini Regime took control. The policies of US Govts toward the ME going back to Eisenhower have been problematic to many in the ME. The problems started before WW1 and have been escalating over the years. Yeah, the Busholini Regime has upped the vitrol toward the US but it sure didn't start with them.