Political Quotes

“today I picked up a newspaper, picked up a Los Angeles Times, and the headline of the Los Angeles Times, I believe the second largest daily paper in the Nation, said, ``Bush Supports Shift of Jobs Overseas.'' The subheadline was, ``The loss of work to other countries, while painful in the short term, will enrich our economy eventually,'' the President's report to Congress says. Now, I thought maybe that was just an overzealous headline writer, so I looked at some other newspapers. The Seattle Times headline was, ``Bush Report: Sending Jobs Overseas Helps the United States.'' Then I looked at the Pittsburg Post Gazette: ``Bush Economic Report Praises Outsourcing Jobs,'' sending those jobs overseas. The Orlando Sentinel in the President's brother's home State: ``Bush Says Sending Jobs Abroad Can Be Beneficial.'' Now, this is a President of the United States who in 3 years has seen a job loss of 3 million people. In my home State of Ohio, we have lost 300,000 jobs. One out of six manufacturing jobs in Ohio has disappeared to Mexico, to China, somewhere overseas generally. We have seen continued job loss in every State in this country. In fact, we have seen manufacturing job loss every single month of the Bush administration. And after I read these headlines and I read the articles which correspond precisely to the headlines, it makes me think maybe that is the Bush plan overall, that we are sending these jobs overseas. Maybe that is what he planned.”