The political battle over jobs Bush, Kerry focus on employment, economy

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http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzecon0304,0,5883044.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

WASHINGTON -- Politics is a rough sport. But perhaps the harshest four-letter-word President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry will trade this election year is spelled J-O-B-S. snip

By virtually all projections, he will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to seek re-election with a net job-loss during his first term.

Further, the administration's promise last April that last year's tax cut would generate over 510,000 new jobs in 2003 and 1.4 million by December has not been met. In all, 2.3 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office.

In Bakersfield, where unemployment exceeds 12 percent, far above the 5.6 percent national average, Bush praised workers gathered at a local irrigation system supplier as "people who are on the front lines of job creation," and stressed the importance of extending tax cuts already enacted, even though they would add nearly $1 trillion to the cumulative budget deficit over the next decade.

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1. If Kerry would run an ad that showed 2.3 million people

it might really bring it home to the masses. That is a number that mind boggles them, like the deficit - it's too big to get their brains around, that's why so many need folks like OxyRush to explain it to them.