Sherrod Brown: “When it comes to jobs, President Bush has a credibility problem, not just the White House applauding the offshore…”

“When it comes to jobs, President Bush has a credibility problem, not just the White House applauding the offshore outsourcing of American jobs as a ``good thing'' then trying to explain that a good thing does not really mean a good thing; not just his Labor Department issuing guidelines to help companies avoid paying overtime to middle-class and low-income workers then insisting that they did not really mean for employers to actually use that guidance to avoid paying overtime; not just the fact that George Bush promised 6 million jobs with his tax cuts and has fallen 7 million short of that goal; not just that President Bush, in a 63-minute speech at the Republican Convention, mentioned the word ``jobs'' one time. The particular credibility problem I am talking about can be summed up in one word: McManufacturing. In the President's Economic Report, this is put out every year, signed by the President of the United States, by George Bush, this report referred to, in trying to answer the problem of lost manufacturing jobs in our country, and my State alone has lost 170,000, my State of Ohio alone has lost 170,000 manufacturing jobs, 150 jobs every single day since George Bush was sworn in 3 rac{1}{2} years ago.”