"If the administration does not act beginning in mid-2004, a new, enormous wave of plant closures and worker layoffs is certain to occur in the country’s major textile areas, such as the southeast, as orders for yarns, fabrics, home furnishing products and apparel are diverted to China,...China could gain control of approximately 70 percent of the U.S. market once quotas are removed,”
U.S. Departing The First World
Boeing can't act like British colonialists extracting wealth from other countries and exporting it all back home....the United States has no divine right to our standard of living,"
Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group - Source
SOURCE FOR BELOW: BUSH DECLARES NOTHING WRONG WITH ECONOMY
George W. Bush Quotes:
"Look around you," Bush implored his audience. "You've all got jobs. I've got a job. Dick Cheney has a job. I don't see what all the fuss is about."
"I may not be an economist, but anyone can see that things look pretty good from here. Besides, we're at war."
"And if there were problems with the economy, I'd be on it. Don't you think I would? The simple truth is that there are no problems. Not a one. Not an iota of problem."
"And we're not going to be suckered into a rope-a-dope with this whole recession game by the Democrats. We've got a war to fight."
"When have you ever heard me say there was a problem with the economy? When? Never. That's because there has been no problem since this administration took office.
"Did I mention we're at war?"
"Economies are about money," the President stated. "And I feel . . . I believe that money . . . I like money. And I like this country. Money is good and this country still has a lot of money."
Ari Fleischer Quotes:
"If the President declares that there is nothing wrong with the economy, then I'm sure there is nothing wrong with the economy."
"To turn our attention away at this time from the threat posed by Iraq to focus on the U.S. economy would be un-American."
"Obviously, our Republican mandate from the recent elections shows that the American people are more concerned with Homeland Security than whether their 401(k)s have gone down a few measly points. Get over it."