Sherrod Brown: “last week President Bush came through my State, the State of Ohio, in a bus trip to argue and defend his economic…”

“last week President Bush came through my State, the State of Ohio, in a bus trip to argue and defend his economic policies which have inflicted great damage on my State. We have lost, since President Bush took office, 177,000 manufacturing jobs. One out of every six manufacturing jobs in Ohio has simply disappeared since President Bush took office. We have lost 200 jobs every single day of the Bush administration, and the President's answer is more tax cuts for the rich, hoping it trickles down and creates some jobs. That has not worked. His other answer is more trade agreements like NAFTA, which frankly have shifted all too many jobs to China and Mexico. Instead, Congress should extend the unemployment benefits for those workers who are trying to find jobs, 50,000 in Ohio, a million across the country, who are trying to find jobs, who have lost their jobs. Extend unemployment benefits and pass the Crane-Rangel bipartisan bill which will give incentives to companies that manufacture in this country, rather than to give incentives and tax breaks to the President's biggest contributors, those corporations which shift jobs overseas.”