Democrats Say Bush Speeding U.S. Job Exports [View All]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats accused President Bush on Saturday of speeding the export of U.S. manufacturing jobs to other countries and calling it a good thing.

In the Democrats' weekly radio address, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the story of a refrigerator plant that closed recently in her state and moved its 2,700 jobs to Mexico. She said it had become an all-too-familiar American tale.

"But after losing over 2.7 million manufacturing jobs over the last four years, all the Bush administration can say is that shipping jobs overseas is a 'positive development,"' Granholm said.

"Americans deserve a president who will fight to create good jobs, not export them," she declared.

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