LOL, this is too funny- this bus full of unemployed cranky people is following the Bush "jobs and growth" bus tour with a slightly different message. <ggg>
Labor Bus Tour Highlights Unemployment
Labor Bus Tour Through Rust Belt States Highlights Plight of Unemployed, Weak Jobs Market
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laid-off workers, students, a priest and creators of anti-offshoring Web sites are among the 51 people taking a bus tour through Rust Belt states this week to talk about job struggles, countering similar trips by the Bush administration to promote a growing economy.
Every state and Washington, D.C., will have a representative riding the red, white and blue flag-covered buses on the "Show Us the Jobs" tour organized by the AFL-CIO and Working America, an activist affiliate of the labor federation.
"I think we need to get the word out there that the economy is not as rosy as people are saying," said Kevin Gregory, 41, of Millinocket, Maine, who was laid off in January 2003 from the Great Northern Paper Mill after 17 years.
The labor tour follows two bus trips by President Bush's Cabinet secretaries to promote the administration's economic policies. In February, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and Treasury Secretary John Snow embarked on a "Jobs and Growth Tour" to Oregon and Washington -- both of which Bush narrowly lost to Al Gore in 2000. Last summer, they traveled to Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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