Senator Jim Webb Visits UAW Plant in Fredericksburg
Senator Jim Webb Visits UAW Plant in Fredericksburg
For more than 100 years on Labor Day, our nation has celebrated the creation of the labor movement and the social and economic accomplishments of American workers who struggled to achieve a living wage, safe workplaces, pensions, and healthcare benefits.
This Labor Day, 2008, who can say that is working the way it really should? Is the struggle for justice and safety in the workplace over? Are hard won victories being erased?
On November 4th, will voters remember that under Bush/McCain Republican policies good paying American jobs have been offshored and pensions lost, wages have become stagnant, economic inequality is widening, and our country's middle class is quickly becoming "working poor"?
On November 4th, will voters remember that Bush/McCain Republican policies have made health care for more than 47 million Americans non-existent and those that have health care are finding the increasing cost of even minimal coverage too expensive to maintain?
On November 4th, will working voters remember how Bush/McCain Republican policies have caused the price of food, utilities, and energy to jump "through the roof"?
On November 4th, will voters remember how Bush/McCain policies have created a housing foreclosure and banking crisis? Will they remember how more and more hard working Americans finding it almost impossible to support themselves and their families?
On this Labor Day, take some time and think about how important voting on November 4th, 2008 is and what you want for the future of working families all across our great nation.
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This Labor Day weekend, we don't just celebrate the end of summer; we also honor the hardworking men and women who have made this country what it is and the American labor movement that has fought tirelessly to improve their wages, benefits and working conditions. America was built by its laborers, but today our workers are struggling just to get by in an economy that no longer works for them.That's why we can't afford four more years of the failed George Bush economic policies - policies that Senator McCain has proudly embraced and promises to continue.It's time we had a President who will stand up for working men and women by building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but work and the workers who create it. It's time you had a partner in the White House who knows that the struggles facing working families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, and that hardworking families need immediate relief.
That's why, as President, I'll end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and give them to companies that create good-paying jobs here at home, and while Senator McCain is proposing $4 billion in new tax breaks for oil companies that are making record profits I'll put a $1,000 tax cut into the pockets of 95% of workers and their families.
It's time you had a President who honors organized labor - who's walked on picket lines; who doesn't choke on the word "union"; who lets our unions do what they do best and organize our workers; and who will finally make the Employee Free Choice Act the law of the land.
That is the choice in this election. We can choose to remain on the path that has abandoned workers and gotten our economy in so much trouble, or we can reclaim the idea that in America, opportunity is open to anyone who's willing to work for it.
I've spent my entire career fighting for working men and women. And so has my running mate, Joe Biden, a man whose heart and values are rooted firmly in the middle class. With him by my side, I am confident that we can take this country in a new direction and restore that fair shot at your dreams that is at the core of what Joe Biden and I stand for, and what America stands for as a nation.