Clinton: Under Bush, Working People Have Been Invisible

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/06/09/clinton-under-bush-working-people-have-been-invisible/

Clinton: Under Bush, Working People Have Been Invisible

by Tula Connell, Jun 9, 2007

Hundreds of union members gathered this morning in Detroit for an AFL-CIO Town Hall meeting with Hillary Clinton, who succinctly summed up the past six years of the Bush administration:

A lot of hard-working people in this country have been invisible to this administration.


Hillary Clinton met today with union members in Detroit.



Speaking at the Electrical Workers (IBEW) union hall near downtown, Clinton said the Bush administration has ignored the problems of working men and women. The AFL-CIO, which has not endorsed any candidate for president, is holding these town hall forums as part of an intensive six-month program to engage union members and their families nationwide in the AFL-CIO’s presidential endorsement decision-making process. Each presidential candidate is offered their choice of cities for the forums and Clinton selected Detroit.

When I was asked where I wanted to go, I said one place: Detroit.

One reason Clinton chose Detroit is to highlight the nation’s need for a strong manufacturing sector. As Clinton put it:

If we don’t have a strong manufacturing sector, it won’t be long before we don’t have a strong economy.

FULL story at link.

[madrchsod]

1. N A F T A ......

"If we don’t have a strong manufacturing sector, it won’t be long before we don’t have a strong economy."

[meg]

2. wrong thread oops

[windbreeze]

3. Considering who gave us NAFTA, after all....n/t

[ElizabethDC]

4. Well, Hillary didn't

she actually encouraged Bill not to push for it. (link to 1993 Time mag article: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979688,00.html)

[William769]

5. And who gave us the bankruptcy bill?

Before you answer, you might want to look who voted for it and who voted against it.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

6. As a lifelong politically interested and aware working person,

I don't recall feeling all that visible under President Clinton either. Another thread asked why we are Democrats. In my case it would be due to the absence of anything resembling a "Labor" party here in the good ol' U.S.A.