Political Quotes

“the President flew Air Force 1 to Cleveland today to campaign in my home State of Ohio, talking with 700 or 800 female small business owners. While the President came and talked about small business and job creation and all that he wants to do in a State which has suffered the worst or second worse job loss in the country, the President, at the same time, and this Congress today, this House today considered this legislation, is slashing $94 million from a loan program essential to small business development. He has shrunk the size of the Small Business Administration. This President basically treats small business one way, with very little assistance, and large businesses, like the Halliburton Corporation, which still pays Vice President Cheney $3,000 a month from their payroll, the Halliburton Corporation, very differently. The President really does not get it when he comes to a State like Ohio, a State where we have lost 166,000 manufacturing jobs since he took office, 300,000 jobs overall since he took office; one out of six manufacturing jobs in the State of Ohio has simply disappeared in the last 3 years. The President's solution to all of this is continued tax cuts for the most privileged people, with the hope that some of that money will trickle down and create jobs. The other solution the President has is more trade agreements, NAFTA- like trade agreements, that ship jobs overseas; that hemorrhage jobs to Mexico, to China, and all over the world.”