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RE: Manufacturing Czar

Filed under: Imported

Dear President Bush,

Please consider this application for the newly created position of "manufacturing czar." I am confident that I bring numerous unique qualities that would enable me to perform admirably in this new post. Most notably, I was once employed in a cup factory at which I constructed cardboard boxes for eight hours a day while wearing fluorescent green earplugs.

In addition, unlike Anthony F. Raimondo, your previous nominee for this position, I have never been responsible for laying off American workers and relocating their jobs to China. In fact, as best that I can recall, I have never employed any workers whatsoever. It is thereby fundamentally impossible for me to have ever outsourced any jobs to any foreign country. And I hereby pledge to you that, given the opportunity to be the nation's inaugural "manufacturing czar," I will refrain from ever employing anyone in any capacity.

Thanks for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Paul Demko 

Posted by Paul Demko at March 15, 2004 2:46 PM

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