Kerry Hits Hard on Jobs

[baltodemvet]

The Yahoo story noting the NYT endorsement also has this account of Kerry hitting hard on jobs:

"Mr. President, the millions of Americans who have lost jobs on your watch are not 'myths,' they are middle-class families -- and for four years, you've turned your back on them," Kerry told a town hall meeting at a high school.

Kerry was referring to remarks this week by Treasury Secretary John Snow, who said, "Claims like the one that Bush will be the first president to end a term with fewer jobs than when he started are nothing more than 'myths."'

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041017/us_nm/campaign_kerry_dc&cid=1896&ncid=1963&sid=96378800

Let's stop talking about Mary Cheny and start talking about jobs and health care!

[olddem43]

1. No, it's Mary Cheney full time, all the time. Get used to it.

[baltodemvet]

3. lmao!

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. We're either "myths" or "focus groups".

"Who cares what we think?" Not the Chimp in Charge!

[JM]

4. Finally some mention...

...of just who lost jobs.

It is nothing to hear meaningless statistics of this percentage versus that percentage. People have been saying this recession lost fewer jobs that Poppy's. Nobody has mentioned

1) Percentage of what...5.4 percent of a much larger job pool is more unemplyment than 9.5 percent of a much smaller one.

2) In 1991, I knew people who were laid off, and they were mostly at the end of their careers. his time around, it was a bunch of people in the prime of their earning years with more than two people depending on the income. I was laid off with a wife working part-time and two kids. My mother was laid off and my father just got cut recently. I have two cousins not working in their fields and earning 1/2 of what they did, and a brother in law who is still unemployed after a year since layoff.

This is much much different than past recessions, and it cuts a much broader swath across various industries than before. Hell, even attorneys are now being offshored...

JM