10.17.2004
Remarks of Senator John Kerry at Xenia High School in Ohio (U.S. Newswire)
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Xenia, Ohio (My Home Town)
It's great to be here with all of you at Xenia High School.
For the past two years, I've traveled across America meeting people just like you -- people who love their families, love their country, and are determined to build a better life for their kids. But while they're working hard and doing everything right, they can't get ahead -- they can barely even stay in place -- because today's economy is leaving them behind.
In the past four years, we've lost 1.6 million private sector jobs. In Ohio alone we've lost 237,000 jobs -- 173,000 of them in manufacturing. And the jobs we're creating today pay $9,000 less than the ones we've lost. So we're losing good jobs and replacing them with ones that don't pay the bills. And, as we learned just yesterday, consumer confidence is plunging as Americans become more and more worried about the state of our economy.
And you know what the Bush Administration says to all this? Just this week, President Bush's Treasury Secretary, John Snow, came right here to Ohio -- a state with some of the worst job losses in America -- and stated that job losses are nothing but a "myth." It's right here, on the front page of the Findlay Courier. Right next to a column about how many of our jobs pay so little that almost 39 million Americans -- 20 million of them children -- can barely afford things like food and housing.
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U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Remarks of Senator John Kerry at Xenia High School in Ohio" ¶ 11:17
Xenia, Ohio (My Home Town)
It's great to be here with all of you at Xenia High School.
For the past two years, I've traveled across America meeting people just like you -- people who love their families, love their country, and are determined to build a better life for their kids. But while they're working hard and doing everything right, they can't get ahead -- they can barely even stay in place -- because today's economy is leaving them behind.
In the past four years, we've lost 1.6 million private sector jobs. In Ohio alone we've lost 237,000 jobs -- 173,000 of them in manufacturing. And the jobs we're creating today pay $9,000 less than the ones we've lost. So we're losing good jobs and replacing them with ones that don't pay the bills. And, as we learned just yesterday, consumer confidence is plunging as Americans become more and more worried about the state of our economy.
And you know what the Bush Administration says to all this? Just this week, President Bush's Treasury Secretary, John Snow, came right here to Ohio -- a state with some of the worst job losses in America -- and stated that job losses are nothing but a "myth." It's right here, on the front page of the Findlay Courier. Right next to a column about how many of our jobs pay so little that almost 39 million Americans -- 20 million of them children -- can barely afford things like food and housing.
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U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Remarks of Senator John Kerry at Xenia High School in Ohio" ¶ 11:17
