Political Quotes

“to review where too many families are today in our great country, we have 324,000 people--324,000 people--who have lost good-paying American jobs just since this January. Just this January, not last January, not the January before or the January before but just in the last few months, 324,000 more Americans--middle-class Americans, working hard every day and trying to keep up with the gas prices, trying to keep up with the mortgage payment, pay for food, send the kids to college, probably having a bigger health care bill--have lost their job and gone, probably, on unemployment compensation to be able to help their family to be able to continue. And, Mr. President, 72,000 of those individuals and families impacted come from my great State of Michigan, with 49,000 jobs having been lost since May, 17,000 of those lost in Michigan since April. At the same time, we all know gas prices are now at $4 and going up, foreclosures nationally are over 702,000 homes this year, with over 31,000 of those in Michigan. All of that is to say that we have a picture now of middle-class Americans, of those who believe in America, who are and who have been working hard every day, who want the American Dream for themselves and their families finding themselves being hit over and over again with one cost after another. Even those who have not lost their jobs are concerned that they may. Will the plant stay open?”