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Originally Posted by NCB
2. It's only a jobless recovery in the Dem halls in DC, the Upper East Side, and LA. The rest of the country has seen a boon. That said, I too wish the Bush Admin would be more proactive in having other countries accepts our goods. It pisses me off to no end that we are open to all markets, but all markets are not open to ours.
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NCB, I am registered and vote still in Columbus, Ohio which is considered prime "fly over" territory in the Midwest and we shoulder a large part of the blame/praise for casting the electorial votes giving Bush his second term. The manufacturing plant where Bush held his last of many, many speeches in Columbus ironically closed in January and left another 400 workers unemployed and uninsured.
Ohio has lost 50,000 jobs net during the past 4 years, most of which are blue-collar labor manufacturing jobs that aren't coming back to Ohio or anyplace else in the U.S. when companies can manufacture elsewhere in the world without penalty from our government. G.W. came to Columbus about every other week the last 3 months of the campaign, selling workers on pride in America, innovation and training in the workforce, and "circling our wagons" against the bad men who want to hurt us. Do you think he even knows the factory is closed today? He was pushing legislation this week to shave another week off of unemployment benefits that these people are living on now... "Tough love" I think he called it.
Revenues are up, that is true. The UPS guy picks up the smaller payroll checks every week to ship overseas.