Bart Stupak: “I come from the State of Michigan. We have already lost many, many jobs in Michigan, about 128,900 manufacturing jobs.…”

“I come from the State of Michigan. We have already lost many, many jobs in Michigan, about 128,900 manufacturing jobs. Michigan is known as a manufacturing State because of the auto industry. But we have a total job loss of about 336,000 jobs, 128,000 in manufacturing alone. Michigan continues to struggle. We need some help from the Federal Government; and we have to take a look at our fair trade agreements, as we call them. We also have to take a look at the tax structure in this country and what incentives are there to keep jobs staying here in this country. Michigan, in the last few years, we have offered close to $1 billion to try to retain corporations and jobs in my home State of Michigan. Nationwide, we have lost 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. Some analysts, as I believe the gentleman pointed out, believe we may lose as many as 14 million jobs in the U.S., or be at risk of going overseas.”