Political Quotes

“But we have lost one sixth of our manufacturing jobs in my State, the State of Ohio. We have lost over 200,000 jobs. In fact, if we look at it, we have literally lost 180 jobs every single day of the Bush administration. They are saying that we are seeing job growth now, and we have seen a few jobs created; but there are a couple of issues there. One is we have not nearly come back to where we were. In fact, as the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) pointed out, George Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have lost a net loss of jobs. We have had a net loss of 215,000 jobs, and now we have just had a net loss this past month, heavily manufacturing jobs, 160, 165,000 manufacturing job loss. And it is not just the people that lose their jobs. It is what it does to these communities. Cleveland laid off 800 school teachers because of job loss, and that means that the average schoolroom in Cleveland will have 30 students per teacher in an average schoolroom.”