President Jobs Counselor

At an online forum hosted by Google this week (no, I will not type Google/YouTube. They are the same company. I would not write hosted by Chevrolet/Buick either. They are GM) the President was questioned by a woman who wondered why the country was issuing work visas for highly skilled foreigners while her husband, an engineer with a decade of experience, has been out of work for three years. The President, as he is wont to do, hemmed and hawed and eventually spurted out the following:

"If you send me your husband's resume, I'd be interested in finding out exactly what's happening right there, because the word we're getting is, is that somebody in that kind of high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away."

This brand of gibberish feeds the oversimplified notion that some oppose the President’s policies and actions because it’s assumed that they think that he’s overwhelmed. The President has done this before, allowing a sympathetic audience member to hijack an appearance in order to vent on and demand an explanation for their personal misfortunes, and then he asks for that person’s contact information so he could look into it. There are more than 300 million people in this country and it’s folly to presume and egocentric for the President to believe that he can solve the problems of those 300 million people one by one.

While the stories the President hears may be sympathetic it’s not fair to focus resources on those who force themselves into the spotlight. We just don’t know the whole story of this unemployed engineer. What was he working on when he was laid off? Was it one of those laid off in lieu of firing things? Has he been on any interviews over the past three years? Is he willing to try other things? Has he tried other things? And, in what world is the President qualified to examine and assess the resume of an engineer? Perhaps to some the President looks good by feigning concern but it just seems preposterous on face and welcomes one to ask the President if he’s comfortable representing the competing interests of a country as populous as ours or if he thinks that he can be a micro-managing President to one person at a time, this week the jobs counselor for an engineer in Texas?