Re Electing President Bush
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Vote No on Re-electing President Bush
The first and foremost reason that I would encourage voters not to re-elect President Bush would be the massive job losses that contradict President Bush's campaign predictions. Instead of creating 510,000 jobs in 2003, as President Bush predicted, the Republican-led economy has suffered a net loss of 473,000 jobs so far this year. The Timken Company, an Ohio-based steel and bearings manufacturer where the President launched his Jobs and Growth package in April, embarrassed the Administration two weeks ago with an announcement it will cut 900 jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that mass layoffs were the cause of 134,000 jobs lost in August. August marked the seven consecutive month of job losses, a cold dose of reality in the face of the President's wishful rhetoric. The President sold his tax package last spring as a mechanism to create jobs, saying, "(The best way to create demand for goods and services is to let people have more of their own money . . . that's why tax relief is important in the year 2003 . ...