"Recovery" not being felt by workers, Kucinich says

[snoochie]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6, 2004

Contact: Matt Harris: (o) [phone], (c) [phone], [e-mail]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor has just released "devastating" new job figures for February showing no net job gain in the last month, Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said today.

"The Bush administration is touting an economic recovery," said the Ohio Congressman, "so where are the jobs? More than eight million Americans are officially out of work, nearly 400,000 more people gave up looking for work last month and millions more are underemployed."

"If that's a recovery," Kucinich added, "I would hate to see what an economic slump looks like."

Kucinich has been the leading Democratic candidate calling for a complete overhaul of U.S. economic and trade policies. While other Democrats have been critical of the Bush record, Kucinich says the problems run deeper than the failed policies of the Bush Administration.

"The President can be held responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of American manufacturing jobs in the last four years," Kucinich noted, "but NAFTA has been putting Americans out of work since 1994."

The North American Free Trade Agreement has cost American workers more than three million jobs nationwide since 1994 in the manufacturing sector alone, said Kucinich, "But Senator Kerry has clearly and repeatedly stated his intention to continue NAFTA and continue U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization. Democrats need to be honest with American workers about what so-called free trade is doing to our economy."

"I pledge to repeal NAFTA; Kerry will continue it. NAFTA was designed for the sole purpose of allowing corporations to go after cheap foreign labor at the expense of jobs at home. It is harming American workers."

As President, Kucinich would protect American jobs by immediately canceling NAFTA and withdrawing from the WTO. The Kucinich plan would also implement a WPA-style public works and infrastructure rebuilding program.

"My jobs-creation plan will put two million Americans back to work at a living wage in such enterprises as rebuilding schools, roads and bridges, upgrading our environmental infrastructure, manufacturing steel, and developing and implementing new technologies," said Kucinich. "We can put Americans back to work rebuilding America, create millions of jobs, and simultaneously improve our quality of life."

For information about the National campaign: http://www.kucinich.us

For Congressman Kucinich's Schedule: http://www.kucinich.us/schedule.htm.

To schedule an interview with Kucinich or a spokesperson: [e-mail]

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Sorry if this was posted already. I did a search but didn't find it.

[rdfi-defi]

1. thanks snoochie

an actual plan to help working people in america. that is great. plus rebuilding the infrastucture with the intention of getting off our fossil fuel addiction.

[MrSoundAndVision]

2. Man if that guy would only run for president....

oh wait, the media would probably convince all of our Democrat colleagues that he can't win or something like that, and then they would just get behind some mediocre bureaucrat with an ill defined platform, oh wait, that's reality, I must've just come out of some trance...

[lams712]

3. LOL!!!!!

A :kick: for you with your funny, but unfortunately true, assessment of the way things are.

[Kanary]

4. This is being published in all the papers, right...?

And the speech is being broadcast on all networks.

Nooooo.....?

Grrrr..... I want to hear this voice on the airwaves!

They're my airwaves, too, dagnabbit!

Kanary

Another Delusional Diehard for Dennis!!

Kucinich 2004!

[IndianaGreen]

5. NAFTA has cost jobs in Indiana

Kucinich is the only remaining candidate that supports getting out of NAFTA and pulling out of WTO, as well as forgetting about the FTAA.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

6. "I pledge to repeal NAFTA; Kerry will continue it."

Nuff said. Tells us which remaining candidate cares about the working class more than the corporations.

TWL

[LWolf]

7. That's the truth.

My son was laid off last month, with no return to work in the near or far future; they told him not to expect to be called back. At all. So he's hit the pavement looking for other work. So far, not even a nibble. And he's looking for *any* kind of work.

[redqueen]

8. How many jobs did bush say he'd add this year?

I'd like to know how that plan is working out.

[goodhue]

9. excellent statement

The anti-Nafta sentiment is only going to get stronger over time, despite media propaganda. Kerry/DNC ignore the issue at their own risk. Imagine all the new voters Democrats could get if Kerry were to admit he was wrong in previously supporting NAFTA and speak out for the repeal of NAFTA. Now that would be a way to break from the same old, same old, which is a path to nowhere.

[goodhue]

10. kick again

"I pledge to repeal NAFTA; Kerry will continue it. NAFTA was designed for the sole purpose of allowing corporations to go after cheap foreign labor at the expense of jobs at home. It is harming American workers." - Dennis J. Kucinich

[redqueen]

11. Wasn't bush congress supposed to consider CAFTA

about now?

[flaminbats]

12. At least we have one candidate on the offensive...

and Kucinich is landing punches exactly where Georgy can take them, practically anywhere! :cry:

[redqueen]

13. What's this about a Senate bill?

Protecting Treasury (and another department's) jobs from being outsourced... until September?

WTF?