Political Quotes

“My prediction is this: President Bush will not return to Canton, Ohio, to the Timken plant during this election year, because the people there are hurting. They know that although they worked hard, although they increased productivity, although the company continued to make money, it wanted to move to where it could earn more money, and that was China. I just want to share with my friend something that is in the President's economic report to the Congress that was presented to us in February of this year. On page 25 of that report, is this statement: ``Whenever a good or a service can be produced at lower cost in another country, it makes sense to import it, rather than to produce it domestically.'' That is the philosophy that drove Timken to China: more money, greed, higher profits. But that is the philosophy of the Bush administration. I say to my friend, nearly every product can be produced at lower cost in another country if you are going to pay slave wages, if you are not going to have environmental standards, if you are not going to have safety requirements for the workplace.”