Tell The Media: Bush Didn't Cause Job Loss/Kerry Will Make It WORSE! (action item)

fr ^ | 3-7-04 | jms

[jmstein7]

Tell The Media: Bush Didn't Cause Job Loss/Kerry Will Make It WORSE!

If you're like me, then you're sick and tired of Kerry and his Democrat cohorts lying out of their pie-holes, blaming President Bush for a recession (and the consequential job losses) that CLINTON caused.

Write a letter to the editor exposing this fallacy.

1.  Open the "Write for W" window by clicking HERE.

2.  Enter your ZIP CODE and click "Get Info"

3.  Select Every News Outlet Listed!!!

4.  Enter your info

5.  Write your letter!

You can use the sample below, or, of course, you may draft your own :)

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Subject: Kerry Misleads on Job Loss, Will Only Make It WORSE

To Whom It May Concern:

John Kerry is misleading America.  It is egregiously dishonest for Kerry to politicize the employment issue and blame President Bush for job loss that began under the Clinton administration and was exacerbated by 9/11 - an issue that John Kerry refuses to acknowledge or discuss.

The recession that John Kerry blames President Bush for began in the third quarter of 2000, on Bill Clinton's watch.  According to the Joint Economic Committee, severe job loss began in July of 2000, also on Bill Clinton's watch.  Bill Clinton did nothing to remedy the situation, and it is blatantly dishonest for John Kerry to blame president Bush - and for the media to happily repeat this fallacious charge.

The fact that John Kerry is willing to lie about this issue for political gain seriously undermines his credibility.

Further, nothing in John Kerry's two decades as a professional politician suggests that he would handle this issue better than President Bush.  His remedy for everything seems to be higher taxes and stricter regulation of businesses.  Clearly, this would result in reversing the slow, but steady, increase in employment that President Bush's job-creating economic policies have achieved - John Kerry would effectively punish successful businesses and make it difficult for small and new businesses to hire new workers.

John Kerry is lying, and the media must stop perpetuating this lie.  An honest, objective media would question Kerry's assertions instead of repeating them, unchallenged.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME/ETC

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Send it!

Thank you!

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoops ! Looks like some of ya'll were double pinged in that and #16.
Sorry.

[jmstein7]

Thanks again, RM!!!

[JulieRNR21]

Good topic......will be writing my own letter on the subject........BUMP

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[Willie Green]

Treasury's Snow defends U.S. job outsourcing
Bush, Fox promote guest-worker program
Manufacturing a Burger
Backdrop Hides `Made in China' Labels

It has become quite clear that the Bush Administration is waging economic warfare AGAINST American domestic business and industries and the wages, benefits and prosperity of the American Middle Class.

[estpeter]

We can't discount the role of big labor in this. My late husband worked many years for GM and every time the contract came up for renewal it was for more money, more benefits. etc. Great while it lasted but the bubble could not go on forever. Something had to give..and it did.

[edger]

Right on! In the current issue of American Spectator, economist Brian Wesbury reports research by the National Association of Manufacturers that extra costs for "corporate tax rates, employee benefits, tort litigation, regulatory compliance and energy" amount to a staggering 22 percent of the price of production. Labor costs are 10 percent.

As Wesbury noted, the main reason why American workers are losing jobs to foreign producers are the extra costs imposed on American companies by taxation, government regulations, and out-of-control litigation.

[edger]

Right on! In the current issue of American Spectator, economist Brian Wesbury reports research by the National Association of Manufacturers that extra costs for "corporate tax rates, employee benefits, tort litigation, regulatory compliance and energy" amount to a staggering 22 percent of the price of production. Labor costs are 10 percent.

As Wesbury noted, the main reason why American workers are losing jobs to foreign producers are the extra costs imposed on American companies by taxation, government regulations, and out-of-control litigation.

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet !

[edger]

Indian programmer is 1/10 the price of US one.

Doesn't matter! In the US, labor costs are 10 percent of production costs. Peripheral governmentally imposed tax and regulatory costs are 22 percent.

Henry Lamb of WND.com said recently, "To stop the outflow of American jobs, all that is required is to repeal the minimum wage law, outlaw labor unions, repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act, dismantle OSHA, abolish the EPA, repeal the Endangered Species Act, abandon the Ecosystem Management Policy, repeal all articles of the Clean Water Act that affect non-navigable waters and, in general, return America to the social status of India, China and the other nations to which American jobs are flowing."

So you can see how Kerry is going to solve this problem, right?

[Thoro]

Hey! Get those facts out of here! It's not the media's job to report them! ;)

[yoe]

Tell the media this also!....

Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads [FR Mentioned]

The group Peaceful Tomorrows, which bills itself as an independent group of 9/11 victim families and whose members have led the charge to force the Bush reelection campaign to yank ads citing the Twin Tower attacks, has direct financial ties to the Heinz Foundation, the charitable trust administered by the wife of likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

On its Web site, Peaceful Tomorrows identifies itself as "a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization."

A Dec. 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry: ............. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092116/posts

[rodguy911]

"THe NYTimes takes it' orders from the DNC" I fear you are right.But stop and think all it will take is a litle "druding" in the right areas, coming up with some solid facts, backed with corraborators and Kerrys extra-cirrular love life could become an issue. You have to remember the rats can't afford a BUBBa two, there would be just too much baggae for even them.

[rodguy911]

"can't discount the role of big labor"Absolutely right. THey(the unions) have destroyed our ability to make anything in the us. NO matter what we make over here it's 10:1 in the third world or sometimes more.Our guys get $20. per hour and the third world does the same job for $2.00 per hour or even less. This trash about how we can produce more per man hour is just that.

[CyberAnt]

Done!! Love it!!

[jmstein7]

Great! Thanks :)

[not-alone]

You are doing a great job. Thanks

[jmstein7]

I'm trying! I really want to get those ads aired, though.

[baseballmom]

Speaking of your ads, someone called Hannity the other day and told him he was working on internet ads, and Hannity told him to send them to him. Was that you?

[WOSG]

If you want more info start with the fact that 'job loss' is a myth.

An FR poster asks: "I am a little confused by the statements of lost jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there was 135,999,000 people employed in Jan., 2001 (link) and 138,566,000 people employed in Jan., 2004 (link). ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/empsit.02022001.news Looks like more people working to me. What am I missing?"

My response: You are missing that this statistic benefits Bush's re-election. So the statstic will be ignored, twisted and in other ways met with a countervailing flurry of lies/damned-lies/biased-statistics to bamboozle people in thinking the worst. Thanks for sharing. I was wanting to know the real facts.