Asked By Tim Russert • About The "Booming" USA Economic
Statistics • On NBC News Meet The Press • Demo Candidate
For Presidential Nomination • Sen. John Kerry Sez
"...but every statistic that you just read off, Tim, works
wonderfully if you’re looking at a Republican recovery. You
know, corporate profits are up 46 percent, but they’re up by
consolidation. They’re up by increases in productivity. They’re
not up because Americans are going back to work, and they’re
not up because Americans are earning more money. Just this
last month—yesterday, the president talked about how his tax
cuts have been good for the recovery. Well, the fact is they
projected 250,000 jobs but they only created a thousand.
They’re 249,000 jobs short. And every month, there are about
250,000 people who drop out of even looking for work. I met a
guy named Bob Anderson in Waterloo the other day. He’s 49
years old. He’s been out of work for two years. He sends out
his resumes. When he goes to have an interview, there are 200
other people there looking for the same job. His wife has been
diagnosed with MS. He has no health care. He doesn’t know
where to turn. There are people like that all over this country
who are desperate. The wages of workers, Tim, went up three
pennies, meanwhile—three pennies an hour, and the overall
wages of workers have gone down $1,500. Meanwhile,
Medicare lobbyists have turned a Medicare bill into a windfall
profit for the Medicare companies, $139 billion. The energy
companies got $50 billion of oil and gas subsidies. Everybody in
America understands the economy is tilted against them. The
economy—Americans are working for the economy, Tim, but
the economy is not working for all Americans. And I believe
there’s an enormous issue there about the fundamental fairness
of the workplace in America"
Intuitive*Analysis™ The Repub Extreme Regime • Is Hell Bent • To Reward
WEATLH Not WORK •• And They Are DOING IT
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