October 13, 2004
Edwards Responds to Snow's "Myth" Comments
For Immediate Release
Medford, OR - Senator John Edwards made the following statement today while campaigning in Oregon. Edwards' statement came in response to comments by Treasury Secretary John Snow Monday in Ohio, where Snow called the failed Bush record a "myth:"
"And now we find out that the Bush administration and their Treasury Secretary say that the surplus that they inherited when they came into office was a myth. Right? And you'll love this one. That the jobs that have been lost during this administration is a myth. Well I wonder if the five million Americans who have lost their health care coverage in the past three years, I wonder if that's a myth. I wonder if the fact that Oregon has the second highest unemployment in the country, I wonder if that's a myth. I wonder if the four million Americans who have fallen into poverty in the last four years, I wonder if that's a myth. What about the fact that folks income is going down, at the same time that the cost of virtually everything - health care, child care, college tuition - are going up, I wonder if they think that is a myth. Well, here's the truth. Come November 2nd, we're going to send George Bush out of town, and that will not be a myth."