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Bush Threatens to Veto Aid to Workers Harmed by Outsourcing!

At the same time the White House is pushing to vastly expand the job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA trade model, we get this from Bloomberg News (full story attached below):

"President George W. Bush may veto legislation to expand benefits for workers harmed by international trade because it would cover more workers than necessary, a White House statement said...Specifically, the Bush administration objected to a provision that would provide added unemployment insurance and training to service workers, such as x-ray technicians or call center workers, and expand a tax break to help unemployed workers pay for health insurance...'If this bill were presented to the president in its current form, the president's senior advisers would recommend he veto the bill,' the statement said." Download PDF file for more information.

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