Political Quotes

“We are fighting in a world economy for every job. Every American worker faces not only competition, but in Michigan we face competition from Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Ohio, each and every day. And each and every day they fight competition from Canada, from Europe, and the Far East. Now, not that long ago we had a plant close in my hometown and move to Canada. One of the reasons they moved was due to the ridiculous sugar subsidy we have here that inflated the price of sugar in the U.S. The other reason was that the cost of labor, which includes the cost of health care and other benefits, was higher in the United States. And so not only is it that health care costs more here, it is because the workers here were covering their own health care and paying a portion of the health care costs for the very people that ended up putting them out of a job. We are subsidizing other companies to compete against U.S. manufacturers and U.S. workers. We cannot lose that point through this debate. It is absolutely critical that the American people need to recognize that when we are paying triple or four times the prescription drug prices in the U.S. versus what they are paying in other countries, it is the U.S. worker who is subsidizing foreign workers who are trying to take their job each and every day. That is why this is absolutely so critical.”