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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doren who wrote (563581)	4/12/2004 6:31:27 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry: The senator lies about the economy JOHN KERRY holds a rally at the University of New Hampshire today, where he is sure to try to frighten students into believing that President Bush has wrecked the economy and endangered their job prospects. Skeptical students will want to keep the following in mind as they listen to Sen. Kerry prattle on about Bush and the economy. Presidents can neither control the economy nor will jobs into existence. Kerry blames Bush for losing nearly 3 million jobs. But the economy began to shrink at the end of President Clinton’s term, and even The New York Times and The Washington Post credited President Bush’s tax cuts with triggering a good chunk of the economic rebound that began last year. As for Kerry’s charge that Bush has (intentionally) sent factory jobs overseas, here is what former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich wrote about manufacturing losses in The Wall Street Journal last December: “It’s true that U.S. manufacturing employment has been dropping for many years, but that’s not primarily due to foreigners taking these jobs. Factory jobs are vanishing all over the world. . . . What happened to factory jobs? In two words, higher productivity.” Kerry is ignoring facts, even those pointed out by high-profile Democrats and left-leaning newspapers, so he can portray President Bush as fully responsible for every hitch in the U.S. economy. How is Kerry supposed to build public confidence in his economic agenda if he is so unsure of it himself that he is not willing to engage the President in a fair and honest argument on economic policy? theunionleader.com