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Neil Abercrombie: “The problem we have in the United States now is people are showing up and there are no jobs. They want to have a job. We…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 2003
The problem we have in the United States now is people are showing up and there are no jobs. They want to have a job. We have lost two-plus million jobs, manufacturing jobs, in this country. There are plenty of people who want to show up for work, but the work is not there because it is being outsourced overseas. Because we are providing an opportunity for the Vice President's cronies in Halliburton and all these other construction companies to send mercenaries overseas to make the big dollars off of the taxpayer dollar here. I want to see people at work in the United States. When we have a prosperous United States, we can start worrying about carrying the burden for the rest of the world.
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Addressing job loss and outsourcing during a speech on the House floor.

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