[lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Tue Sep 7 12:30:30 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dawson" <MDawson at pdx.edu>
>Folks seem to be demanding that Democrats prove their pro-labor
credentials
>by wasting time on unwinnable bills, instead of concentrating on the
>legislation they can pass.
>-- Nathan Newman

-No. Actually, folks are demanding that the DP change the political climate -by talking about the interests of the bottom 2/3 of the society. The DP -refuses.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0906.html "Do we want four more years of lost jobs and falling wages . four more years of rising health care costs . four more years of raiding Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy . four more years of schools being shortchanged, leaving millions of children behind . four more years of shipping jobs overseas and replacing them with jobs that pay you less .four more years of a go-it-alone foreign policy. If you do, then you should vote for George W. Bush.

But if you want health care for all Americans. If you want schools that work. If you want jobs that pay you more money. If you want Social Security that's there for the future. Then we need to move America in a new direction and that's the choice in this election."

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0902.html "Let me tell you what I think makes someone unfit for duty. Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this nation. Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this nation. Letting 45 million Americans go without healthcare makes you unfit to lead this nation. Letting the Saudi Royal Family control our energy costs makes you unfit. Handing out billions of government contracts to Halliburton while you're still on their payroll makes you unfit. That's the record of George Bush and Dick Cheney. . .

He's misled America's workers - he told them his economic plan would create 6 million jobs. The truth is we've lost nearly 1.8 million since George Bush took office. He said his plan would create 266,000 jobs in Ohio. Instead Ohio has lost 230,000 jobs since he took office -- 112,000 jobs since the recession ended in November of 2001."



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