Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. delivered an inspired and amazingly uninformed rant on how the iPad is killing American jobs. This has skyrocketed to the top of the list of the dumbest things I’ve heard in 2011. Apparently the iPad is the scourge of book makers, librarians, Borders employees, etc.
Sure it’s made in China, but the millions of iPads sold in 2011 equals millions of dollars of tax revenue. American workers at thousands of retail outlets have to sell the devices. “Geniuses” employed by Apple have to support iPads after they’re sold. Thousands of people are employed by American companies to create and market iPad software. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
I’m going to watch the video again so that I can have a lovely migraine….
Yea I briefly read about this today I don't know what to say.
I actually saw the video over the weekend on my iPad 2. Kinda funny.
I'd have gone with "corporate greed and ineffective government regulation" personally.
Neither of those have Smart Covers.
LOL!
-M
I guess he'd rather us cut down trees and cause more pollution to the earth instead right!!??
/sarcasm
Seriously though..this goes to show you that there is no minimum level of intelligence, economics, or ethical standard to get elected to a public office.
In either party.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Welcome to the Independent Party!!! Actually, I fled the independent party when Joe Liberman became associated with us. The last thing I want to do is be in the same group with an INO (Independent in Name Only), much like RINOs and DINOs.
-M
Oh, I'm quite clearly a Dem. I just make no assumptions that the letter next to your name on the ballot means you deserve to be on it.
Come to the LIbertarians! Ron Paul is nuts…but…well…shit.
@Nightshade
Of course. Both are full of idiots.
Jesse Jackson Sr spoke at my wife's High School when shew was a kid. She said that he made the school band (which she was in) play Mariah Carey's "Hero" for him as his "entrance music." She said that made her lose all respect for him, because anyone who thought that highly of themselves probably wasn't worth liking.
Personally I was always of the opinion that the bullet hit the real hero standing next him in Memphis, and that Jackson and Sharpton were both just T.V. ready opportunists.
I like the term race pimp myself.