Nearly 75% of Ex-Bush Officials Looking For Jobs are Unemployed

[ALien]

While the market for job-seekers in the United States might be sour, for most it isn't as impenetrable as it is for the nearly 3,000 former members of the Bush administration.

Between 70-75 percent who are looking for full-time work still haven't found new jobs, according to a Saturday report by the Wall St. Journal.

"That 'is much, much worse' than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House," Carlos M. Gutierrez, who served as Bush's commerce secretary, told the paper.

For many, the traditional refuge of conservative think tanks in Washington, D.C. has become a Fort Knox, with almost no positions available, and certainly not for lower-rung Bush officials.

The think tanks "lack interest in hiring high-profile Republicans when Democrats control the White House and Congress," said the Journal. "Mr. Bush's low approval ratings at the end of his term don't help, said Leonard Pfeiffer IV, a Washington recruiter for nonprofits."

In the US at-large, 6.54 million are receiving unemployment benefits, according to the Department of Labor.

"A handful of Bush cabinet officers have accepted academic appointments," reported the paper. "Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as a fellow. Condoleezza Rice, previously secretary of state, resumed her Stanford University roles as a political-science professor and senior fellow at its Hoover Institution think tank."

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[kidflash2008]

I am surprised they aren't busy getting tell all book deals ready. I would sure love to read the secret wheeling and dealing that went on in that administration, especially that Cheney fellow!

[Truthed]

Originally Posted by kidflash2008

I am surprised they aren't busy getting tell all book deals ready. I would sure love to read the secret wheeling and dealing that went on in that administration, especially that Cheney fellow!

Cheney has to complete the Death Star first

[Mingus]

Scott McClellan is why. Remember the reaction given by the media? Everyone said "Why didn't you do something about it when you were in office?" and he was, of course, put in a poor position. Nevermind the fact that he came out to publish a book that tells the public about what went on behind close doors and such, just kill his reputation.

[Tecnos]

I'm sorry, these statistics need to be quantified.

As they stand or are quoted:

Between 70-75 percent who are looking for full-time work still haven't found new jobs, according to a Saturday report by the Wall St. Journal.

OK....

From the 3000

#1 How many walked straight into a new role?
#2 How many have retired on a fat pension?
#3 How many are looking for part time lecture circuit work?
#4 How many are self employed - consulting?
# 5 How many are writing the biographies, memoirs or blogs that Kidfkash alludes to?

These statistics need quantification!


From the 3000 individuals that the article hints at, only 4 of them might be unemployed.... 3 of whom might be complete and utter fuckwits! Bush included......

[kidflash2008]

Originally Posted by Mingus

Scott McClellan is why. Remember the reaction given by the media? Everyone said "Why didn't you do something about it when you were in office?" and he was, of course, put in a poor position. Nevermind the fact that he came out to publish a book that tells the public about what went on behind close doors and such, just kill his reputation.

The Bush Administration is done, and there is a lot of money to be made spilling the beans on what happened and who was really in charge. They stand the chance to make millions on book deals. I think they can take some heat from the press as it is not like they haven't been for the past five years.

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Some of them got hired by Obama to stay on...