Marilyn Strickland: “Speaking about China, job loss, the needs that we have, I have a chart here that shows that since President Bush has…”

“Speaking about China, job loss, the needs that we have, I have a chart here that shows that since President Bush has been in office, I am talking about the period from January 2001 through April of 2004, 48 of our 50 States have lost manufacturing jobs. These are jobs that traditionally pay decent wages, have benefits, enable a person to support their families, pay their taxes, support their communities. If we can just look at the heartland of our country here, and I am talking about our great State of Ohio, Ohio has lost 163,500 manufacturing jobs. That job loss is continuing. We now know from the recent statistics that just last month, Ohio lost more than 3,000 manufacturing jobs.”