the Sugar Conspiracy

Friday, July 30, 2004

Team Bush's solution to job problems

A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.

The comment was apparently directed to a colleague who was transferring a phone call from a reporter asking about job quality, and who overheard the remark.

When told the Prozac comment had been overheard, Sheybani said: "Oh, I was just kidding."

Riiiight. Cause it's not Bush's policies or anything, it's just that these workers in low-paying jobs should suck it up, pop a pill and relax, already. And how is someone with a low paying job going to be able to afford a Prozac prescription anyway, especially considering the fact that Bush doesn't want to help them out with decent health care? And I'm not saying that this is actually Bush's view of things, but it seems indicative of the types of people he surrounds himself with. People that are concerned with helping themselves, not the rest of us.

(Thanks be to Atrios.)

posted by chris at 9:49 AM
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