Mich. Labor Leaders, Workers Rally to Expose Admin's 'No New Jobs" Record

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/

After three straight weeks of rising jobless claims, the Bush administration is sending Commerce Secretary Don Evans to Michigan to try to put a positive spin on the administration's failed economic policies, according to Michigan labor leaders and the Fair Taxes for All coalition. Calling the president's tax-cutting "Jobs and Growth Plan" a failure, Michigan AFL-CIO President Mark Gaffney addressed a rally of workers gathered outside the hotel where Evans was speaking

"President Bush's tax cuts -- billions of dollars worth -- have done nothing to create the jobs American workers so desperately need, and they leave a legacy of debt for our children and grandchildren to pay. Since the president took office, we have lost more than 3 million private sector jobs and a stunning 2.5 million manufacturing jobs. Michigan has lost over 160,000 manufacturing jobs - one out of six," said Gaffney. Meanwhile, Gaffney noted that health care costs have exploded, workers' premiums to insure their families have grown by almost 50 percent in the last three years and eight million children in America have no health care.

"President Bush has saddled the American people -- and the people of this state -with the extraordinary cost of his three massive tax cuts, which were much too deep and which primarily benefit the very wealthy. Secretary Evans is here to deliver the bill for the president's failed economic policies," said Gaffney. "This false 'jobs and growth' plan is robbing millions of their livelihood while the rich get richer, and all the White House can do is stand by and watch."

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that -- for the third week in a row -- jobless claims were on the rise, adding 3,000 more new claims and hitting the highest point in months. ---

[Lefty48197]

1. Kudos to the AFL-CIO

for taking it to the right-wingers. Don't let them rest any minute of any day, from now until election day in 2004. Protest them at every chance you get.