GOVERNMENT: Manufacturing takes center stage
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Manufacturing News, Source : The Manufacturer US
Published : 02 Oct 2003 10:06
Let the war of words begin
If the initial rhetoric is any indication, the manufacturing sector is going to be one of the major hot button issues debated during the 2004 presidential campaign.
President Bush began his stumping this month at a Labor Day rally where he said that “there’s a problem with the manufacturing sector,” and promised to appoint an assistant secretary of com-merce to focus exclusively on its needs. (The person has yet to be named as of press time.)
“One way to make sure the manufacturing sector does well is to send the message overseas…We expect there to be a fair playing field when it comes to trade. See, we in America believe we can compete with anybody just so long as the rules are fair, and we intend to keep the rules fair,” he said to a group assembled from the International Union of Operating Engineers in Richmond, Ohio.
It took only a few days for the democratic hopefuls to attack Bush’s record when it comes to lost jobs—about 3 million since January, 2001 according to government tallies. “You know, the president goes around the country speaking Spanish. The only Spanish he speaks when it comes to jobs is hasta la vista,” said Sen. John Edwards at a democratic debate in Albuquerque, NM that same week.
“I think the only jobs created in the United States of America by George Bush are the nine of us running for President of the United States,” quipped Sen. John Kerry at the same debate. Kerry is expected to announce his “Plans to Grow American Jobs in Manufacturing,” when he speaks to the Detroit Economic Club this month in Detroit, MI.
Expect to see the other candidates follow suit in the coming weeks as the campaign begins in earnest.
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