Albert Russell Wynn: “In an election year, the American people get to evaluate what the current administration, the Bush administration, has…”

“In an election year, the American people get to evaluate what the current administration, the Bush administration, has been doing and ask the fundamental question: Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago? For millions of Americans, the answer is clearly no. Under the Bush administration's leadership, our country has lost 1.7 million jobs. Wages have not kept pace with inflation. The new jobs that are being created, and there are only a few of those, do not pay as much as the jobs that are being lost to outsourcing, and the number of jobs being created does not even keep pace with the number of people who are entering the workforce. The Census Bureau reported that the median household income has dropped over $1,500 in real terms since President Bush took office, while the number of persons living in poverty and without health insurance increased for the third straight year to 45 million people. So, yes, this is an election year, and certainly this is a time to talk about the economy in terms of the lives of the American citizens. This administration, to add insult to injury, now brings before us a proposal which would cut 6 million people from earning overtime.”