Political Quotes

“The point I am getting to is that this effort by Senator Kennedy, Senator Clinton, Senator Wellstone, myself, and Senator Smith of Oregon is a really tradition that we have seen over and over again in the Senate and the Congress. When we are in a recession, the best thing that can be done to spark economic activity is to give some buying power to people who are out of work. We have done that repeatedly, no questions asked. For some reason, the Bush administration, which has presided over this recession getting deeper, darker, and gloomier, does not want to do that. They do not want to provide the basic necessities of life for these people. I do not understand that. One would think the President would have stepped up as his father did three different times and say we are going to provide the resources for these people who, through no fault of their own, are out of work. Yet the Bush administration has not done it. The situation gets worse. The Bush economic record shows in private sector jobs, we have lost more than 2 million jobs. We had 111.7 million private sector jobs when President George W. Bush took office. Today, we are down to 109.6 million. It is an indication of how serious it is. Unemployment has become a national phenomenon under this failed Bush economic record.”