Sherrod Brown: “Last week, President Bush came to Ohio, my home State, to try to defend his economic policies, a State that has lost…”

“Last week, President Bush came to Ohio, my home State, to try to defend his economic policies, a State that has lost 222,000 jobs since he took office. One out of every six manufacturing jobs in the State has disappeared since he took office. We have lost almost 200 jobs every single day of the Bush administration. Yet the President's answer, again and again and again, is more tax cuts for the wealthiest people in this country, with the hopes that maybe it will trickle down and provide a few jobs, which it has not, and more NAFTA-like trade agreements, which continue to hemorrhage jobs, continue to shift jobs overseas. The White House, instead of those two failed attempts at creating jobs and building our economy, the White House should support extending unemployment benefits to those 50,000 Ohioans who have seen their benefits expire, should pass Crane-Rangel legislation, bipartisan legislation that will give incentives for American companies to manufacture in this country, instead of giving incentives, as the Bush administration does, to the largest companies in the country that continue to export jobs overseas.”