Obama Last Week: Automation Kills Jobs… Obama This Week: Automation Creates Jobs

Last week automation was bad.

This week automation is good.

So which is it?
Last week Barack Obama blamed ATMs and automation for killing jobs.
FOX Nation reported:

President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren’t hiring is not because of his policies, it’s because the economy is so automated. … “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.”

But that was so last week.
Today in his Weekly Address Barack Obama said that automation creates jobs.
The AP reported:

President Barack Obama says technological innovations such as robots can help pump jobs into the economy and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

In his radio and Internet address Saturday, the president echoed a plan he unveiled Friday in Pittsburgh to join the federal government, universities and corporations and re-ignite American manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies.

“Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive,” Obama said in his address.

Do you ever get the idea the community organizer in chief is winging it?

#1 June 25, 2011 at 8:15 am
Chisum commented:

Winging it?

More like flailing. Parents, tell your children that this is a direct result of Hopium. Stay far away from the Hopium.
#2 June 25, 2011 at 8:17 am
toongoon commented:

Obama actions are explained by that great philosopher Gump; Stupid is as stupid does.

You can’t keep trying to convince people of someones intelligence, at some point they have to prove it. Obama has proven his intelligence many times over.

He is an idiot!
#3 June 25, 2011 at 8:22 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

this mooslum POS is the biggest fraud the USA has ever seen
#4 June 25, 2011 at 8:25 am
FreakyBoy commented:

Of course, the zero sum game is when robots manufacture ATMs.

Game over, man.
#5 June 25, 2011 at 8:28 am
Ginger commented:

Chisum… I was going to say almost the same thing. Is cocain the same thing? His brain is fogged and his tounge is twisted!
#6 June 25, 2011 at 8:31 am
Ginger commented:

I meant to ask is Hopium the same thing as cocain? sp?
#7 June 25, 2011 at 8:32 am
Steve commented:

So the reason our economy is ba is because we have too many ATM’S? So his thinking is we need to have more bank tellers? Do you kinow what a bank teller earns? It’s less then what you can make at McDonalds. AND you have to balance your teller drawer AND you have to follow federal laws AND you have to question the customers as to their transactions…..my wife is a small town bank exec…..she can hardly keep her teller line fully staffed BECAUSE it doesn’t pay enough compared to the trouble the feds put them through.
Don’t tell me that the banks aren’t regulated enough: I cry bull pucky! The banks are too regulated, too micromanaged, too manipulated. Banks are businesses that need to make money to stay afloat. Just like an ice cream stand or a clothing store. Some people in this country think that banks are like eterna ethereal businesses. They have the notion that banks are suppose to be there for the “good” of the people. Kinda like churches. Liberals have the opinion that the basic pillars of society should be run for the benefit of the whole. and they forget thaat EVERYTHING is a business. These businesses need to make a profit to continue. They don’t operate in a vacuum.

Steve
#8 June 25, 2011 at 8:32 am
WSG commented:

Have to convince people that the government has an important role. That is the only way you can justify to the masses that the taxpayers need to send in more and more tax dollars to be thinned out through DC before being cronied into the economy.

Problem: How can we continue to send taxpayer (or borrowed on the never never) money to our friends?
Answer: Repackage the message so it sounds like something other than what we already are doing. Announce a program to make cronyism sound sensible.
#9 June 25, 2011 at 8:39 am
Chisum commented:

Ginger,

BO admits to pot smoking and cocaine (blow). I imagine that includes the crack form, too.

Obama had written in his first book, “Dreams From My Father” (1995), before entering politics, that he had used marijuana and cocaine (“maybe a little blow”). He said he had not tried heroin because he did not like the pusher who was trying to sell it to him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/americas/24iht-dems.3272493.html

He was stupid then and he’s stupid now.
#10 June 25, 2011 at 8:43 am
∅ commented:

Zero is like that block of cheese in the Cheez-it commercial.

Click. Check. Click.
#11 June 25, 2011 at 8:52 am
Ginger commented:

Chisum….His brain is ate up! Lets demand a drug test! hahahaha
#12 June 25, 2011 at 9:01 am
Katie commented:

Obama’s like a goose – he wakes up in a new world every day.
#13 June 25, 2011 at 9:01 am
Chisum commented:

Some pearls of wisdom from Ron White.

You can’t fix stupid. There is not a pill you can take or a class you can take. Stupid is forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxKStPXyn8
#14 June 25, 2011 at 9:06 am
Ginger commented:

Chisum…….. that is so funny! Thanks I put that in my favorites to enjoy more later.
#15 June 25, 2011 at 9:16 am
big L commented:

These comments by Obama are specially prepared to ‘Alinsky’ the populace. Confuse them, use middleclass values against them. Make them angry, frustrated and tired so that they will take any clamp-down on civil rights.
A lot of Obama speeches are Ericksen psychology. It is brainwashing. they choose the words and the cadence. the words mean differnt things to us. the cadence is designed to lull to sleep.
As a country we must imo stop listening to Obama. Oh sure you can scan his speeches.But it is important to not be under a trice weekly hypnotic spell. Notice how his tv comments/radio commnts have ramped up from each week or two to now 3 times a week? Soon he will be Picture-in-Picture on all our tvs all day long.
#16 June 25, 2011 at 9:21 am
Chisum commented:

Ginger,

This is the video that reminds me of BO.

It is NOT safe for work but very funny. Warning.

Rodney Carrington sings “Dear Penis”.

(Actually we should dedicate this to Anthony Weiner.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqttbRlJUQ
#17 June 25, 2011 at 9:23 am
StrangernFiction commented:

Pure Evil!
#18 June 25, 2011 at 9:52 am
jorgen commented:

O’bozo is right 50% of the time! And for a community organizer that is way above average!
#19 June 25, 2011 at 9:58 am
BackwardsBoy commented:

“So which is it?”

Don’t ask Barry. He doesn’t have a clue, as evidenced by his answers.
#20 June 25, 2011 at 10:17 am
JKB commented:

If it weren’t for that dang steam shovel, his shovel ready jobs stimulus would’ve worked.
#21 June 25, 2011 at 10:25 am
Andreas K. commented:

Tomorrow: unicorns create jobs
Next week: polar bears kill jobs
#22 June 25, 2011 at 10:33 am
JKB commented:

…join the federal government, universities and corporations and re-ignite American manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies.

Ah, but you see the way to re-ignite innovation is to allow inventors to profit from their inventions, i.e., patent law but also permit investors who fund those inventors to profit. Now, bear with me, the way these inventors prove and profit from their inventions is by organizing as small businesses. Small business owners who risk their own time, money and effort in hopes of making more than $200,000 in pay off but not now when most of that over $200,000 will be absconded with by the government.

Also, the government is slow in getting started and in approving new and risky ideas. Universities are innovative but not motivated by their next meal which the government is already providing. Corporations of an ilk can move a bit faster but they aren’t the ones who will seek the most innovative solution since the decision makers have prestige and power tied up in the current way of doing things. Remember, IBM gave away the PC market (Microsoft). IBM gave away the software market (Electronic Data Systems). All because the decision makers were big iron men and only saw the future in big iron and software was only a small part.

So let’s put our faith in government bureaucrats partnering with university bureaucrats and corporate bureaucrats for cutting edge research and new technologies.
#23 June 25, 2011 at 11:42 am
gus commented:

Captain Earflaps is a committed Marxist. Everything he says and does is designed to reach his ideological goals. He has NO IDEA what will happen along the way, but the end is always the same, poverty death, misery, goverment control and joblessness.
Obama needs to control the free market to destroy it. Most of you people know this, but few have actually thought it all the way through. The end is ugly. And one more hint. Race and violence will play a part.
#24 June 25, 2011 at 11:59 am
Valerie commented:

Oh, yes, let’s talk about automation, which has a tenuous connection to the overall employment rate, instead of factors that can have a real, immediate impact on the health of our economy, such as:

Instability in government policy, which results in a lack of confidence by individual investors and business owners. When the government is busy interfering in markets, in threatening higher taxes in unknown amounts against an array of targets, in picking winners and losers, businesses of all sizes refrain from making new hires. Instead, they conserve their resources as a buffer against the next revolting development.
#25 June 25, 2011 at 12:14 pm
eaglewingz08 commented:

I think TOTUS is having a nervous breakdown and Barack is in the middle. Has there every been a modern President who has so little regard for words or principles or policies or consistency, as Mr. Obama? Even Dhimmi Carter had more principles and consistency.
#26 June 25, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Radegunda commented:

He’s mentally confused. He sometimes contradicts himself within the space of two minutes, without realizing it. See e.g. the parable of a farmer sowing his crops that he told a few days after signing the health care bill: the story contradicted the point he was attempting to make. The “Cinco de Cuatro” gaffe was also a sign of confusion.

Some people have noted that he often seems to be drugged up in public appearances. That’s entirely possible. In addition, his upbringing and education, along with all the unearned adulation, were likely to result in a mixed-up worldview.
#27 June 25, 2011 at 6:44 pm
charles a pembroke commented:

What manufacturing is done in this country?Is obama going to build factorys?Every place I ever worked is not there anymore.Budd co phila,midvale steel phila.So what is he talking about?This obama is so full of s**t I can’t beleive any one listens.He’s going to get reelected by the welfare people.Apparenty their are more of them than workers.The jewish community votes democratic all the time.Whats with them?Democrats don’t like jews.Especialy the Israeli kind.
#28 June 25, 2011 at 6:46 pm
charles a pembroke commented:

Wheres my comment?Somethig wrong with it???
#29 June 25, 2011 at 7:01 pm
righthook38 commented:

This guy is clueless. He has his own agenda, and everything else is nothing but a distraction. In order to “fundamentally transform” America, he has to let the economy crumble and the country collapse, so he can build it back up as a socialist nation. He couldn’t care less about the loss of jobs here. It’s all part of the plan. Make the country dependent on government.
#30 June 25, 2011 at 7:48 pm
shawn corrigan commented:

yes hopium and co-change-icane ,are the two very fine political drugs of choice. liberals love this kind of spewtum. there is no reason or logic, except that obama seems to be at war with all innovation and the free market, freedom in general for that matter.
why else does he continue to attack the sources of jobs with his job killing regulations ,taxes and employee benefits. these things seem great to an idiot or a marxist , but they kill any business.
#31 June 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm
dunce commented:

It is that darn teleprompter, it was probably hacked by Brietbart.
#32 June 26, 2011 at 12:40 am
Char commented:

Like all the rest of you, I’ve tried to make every shoe in the closet fit BO . . . but I think we’re forgetting something; the problems right out there already on our streets. Every day I am more convinced BO is just one of the criminal street gang punks that roam our streets looking for recruits because it’s the only place he can get “respect” – except prison where he surely would fit in nicely.

Meanwhile, my oldest grandson just got out of The Box at Ft. Irwin – quite a useful intro to the Mid-East from what I can see on the internet. Reservations for tours are full up at the moment, but it looks like another place Americans ought to visit. He’s back in El Paso and will be home the first two weeks in August – which may mean he will be deployed soon after. God knows where – Lybia, since BO is pulling out of Afghanistan? Of course there’s no way he’s going to get to protect the streets of El Paso from the marrauding Juarez hordes, never mind saving us from our very own head honcho!

omg I just saw another ROBO-BO commercial: “go to serve.gov” to see how you can serve your king” – gag, me! I mean literally or I’m going to end up getting arrested for still having a mind.
#33 June 26, 2011 at 7:16 am
Eloy commented:

I wonder how much of all this nonsense Obama spews out there is flip flopping, stupidity or actually staged speech. I do not know if he is smart based on the fact we are told over and over again he graduated with a law degree from an Ivy League school…but all this is very nebolous since we don’t hear anything about his past school history. I think all these things we see in Capitol Hill, and the White House is staged and the public falls for all the shenanigans and takes it as is. They all probably have an agreement behind closed doors but only let it look as if they don’t. This way when a deal is brokered we all think that they have worked together and achieve a goal for us; the people… Guess what “Get your popcorn ready” this is going to be some drama.
#34 June 26, 2011 at 9:52 am
Tater Salad commented:

Barack Obama has told us all that ATM’s and its technology is killing America by taking jobs away. With that type of ideology, then the cotton gin should not have been invented. With two kids in the White House, we all know where this conversation could go. President, please, one term and go off and play community organizer or whatever. You’re in over your head on this gig!
#35 June 26, 2011 at 9:55 am
Lloyd commented:

As long as Obama is flipping and flopping, wouldn’t it be nice if he flipped out of office and flopped out of the country?
#36 June 26, 2011 at 11:45 am
Emmet Dwyer commented:

Perhaps instead of another lame, (and embarrassing) flip-floping, BO could:
1. land one of those jobs he ‘created’ -you know the ones at McDonald’s aka ‘McJobs’
2. do all flipping and flopping to his hopey heart’s content, but only in front of a McFry griddle. Where he can do no harm except to random McCustomers. Who should stop eating there. Michelle said so.

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-atlanta/robust-job-creation-months-leading-to-may-s-dismal-jobs-report

http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND0607118.aspx
#37 June 26, 2011 at 1:31 pm
MSGT JOHN CORREA commented:

Just how many more times must I repeat myself? We can easily restore our American sovereignty and capitalism merely by demanding of the Speaker of the House John Boehner to immediately generate the “Impeachment and Deportation” proceedings against the foreign-born Muslim Communist illegal U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II. In doing so; we can legally and constitutionally declare all of Obama’s legislative dilemmas, dictatorial executive orders, nominations, and all appointments as NULL and VOID all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court appointments!

Since the U.S. Constitution states; that only the Senate can try a U.S. President for Impeachment and/or Deporatation; we know the U.S. Senate is infested with socialist communist that won’t allow the legal Impeachment to take place, much less remove the communist tyrant from Office. In view of the corrupted Senate House as a matter of fact; “we the people” must demand that the three top U.S. Supreme Court Justices oversees the proceedings of the U.S. Constitutional Impeachment and/or Deportation against the foreign-born Barack Hussein Obama II will be a fair and just trial. The charges and evidence against the foreign-born Barack Hussein Obama II surmounts beyond anything we have ever witnessed against a U.S. President in the entire history of the United States of America.

We are Americans and we can do it! Why on earth should we wait until 2012 to remove this tyrant from Office for high treason? So what the hell are we waiting for? Start screaming for Obama’s immediate “Impeachment and Deportation” before he completes his goal of America’s total destruction. Allow me to leave you all with the following thought….

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery…” — WINSTON CHURCHILL

The above statement should clear your thoughts as to where this tyrant is leading us. Where else do you think the current communist tyrant is leading this nation by the nose?

MSGT JOHN CORREA
USAF (RET)
#38 June 26, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Roger Mommaerts commented:

Watch for new “research grants” to universities and more “stimulus funds” to corporations in order to “re-ignite American manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies.” Nothing new or surprising here. This means we MUST have more tax revenue!