Kerry Takes Job Creation Message to N.C. (Charlotte!)

[leftchick]

Woo Hoo... JK is Coming to Charlotte! :bounce:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040820/ap_on_el_pr/kerry&cid=694&ncid=716


CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) came to the heart of a conservative state hit hard by job losses over the past four years to tout his plan for curbing the export of jobs by cutting corporate taxes and enforcing trade agreements.


Kerry is meeting Friday with laid-off workers and families in Charlotte, before going to southwest Florida to survey the damage inflicted a week ago by Hurricane Charley.


"Right now, we've got a choice," Kerry said in a statement. "We can keep on subsidizing companies who send jobs overseas, or we can reward companies who keep them here in America, where they belong."


Since President Bush (news - web sites) took office in 2001, with the help of electoral support from North Carolina, the state has lost 160,000 jobs, with manufacturing employment down more than 20 percent.