Political Quotes

“I want to thank you, Congressman Garamendi, for your continuing leadership on jobs in America and Make It In America. It is a pleasure to join also with Congressmen Norcross and Sherman, who are here tonight after hours as we attempt to bring the cause of the American people here to our Nation's Capitol. I want to thank you for the logo of ``Make It In America.'' We in the Midwest would also say ``make it and grow it in America'' because agriculture is a major underpinning of Ohio as well, and I know it is of California. I want to begin my remarks tonight by saying that the American economy, in a way, is upside down. We have seen two-thirds of the manufacturing jobs in America eliminated over the last three decades, and it isn't just because of technology. It is because those jobs have been outsourced to third-world environments, where people work for penny wage jobs, and their livelihoods don't really increase. They aren't bettering themselves. They are basically not starving. They certainly don't live a middle class way of life. But two-thirds of the manufacturing jobs, gone in America. And at the same time, we see the financial sector growing in power. Six banks headquartered on Wall Street mainly controlling the investment that occurs that allows the outsourcing, the very same characters that brought this economy down and hurt the world through the development of derivatives.…”