Labor to assail Bush's record on jobs

[UpInArms]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0403230130mar23,1,5249456.story?coll=chi-business-hed

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Targeting key battleground states in the presidential election and accompanied by 51 disenfranchised workers, organized labor on Wednesday plans to kick off a weeklong bus tour of areas hit hard by job losses, in what some are calling a grass-roots attack on the Bush administration's economic policies.

Starting with a rally in downtown St. Louis, the "Show Us the Jobs" tour will stop in cities and small towns in Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania before finishing in Washington, D.C.

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Karen Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, said the tour is not about politics but about the issues, including the outsourcing of jobs overseas, downsizing by corporations, underemployment and long-term joblessness. Nussbaum said the group has 125,000 members.

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[Catfight]

1. Show us the Jobs

This is great...America united against Bu$h

[yltlatl]

3. Absolutely!!

And thanks for the original post.

One thing though: America needs to collectively get over dancing around whether this or that is "political"--by which they typically mean that it shouldn't be driven by any particular philosophy or ideology. Wake up people!!! The fact is that there are real differences of opinion as to how to deal with the essential problem of gov't: the distribution of scarce resources, and I would be seriously scared if people approached these problems on a haphazard basis without any underlying philosophy. Not only that, but based on the momentousness of the issues and the irreconcilable differences between the parties, I think that we may well be more politically polarized than at any time since the Civil War. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL!!! Let's get past that and get down to slugging it out to see who's going to control our future.

Thanks for indulging my off-topic tirade...

[phillybri]

2. Kick

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