Headline on Fark.com yesterday about sums it up:
"Ohio factory that Bush visited last year and used as example of how his economic policies were working announces it will shut down and lay off all 1300 employees"
Can't find an article. But here's some Wash Post commentary on it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36180-2004May18.html">Dan Froomkin column
Bush Backdrop Turns Sour
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, May 18, 2004; 11:01 AM
When President Bush visited a Timken Co. ball-bearing plant in Canton, Ohio, a year ago, he told workers that their optimism about the future of their company inspired his optimism about the future of the economy.
A photo from his talk at Timken leads the White House Web site's "Building America's Economy Photo Essay." It shows Bush standing in front of a glorious red, white and blue "Jobs and Growth" banner.
As he said at the time, the "greatest strength of the American economy is found right here, right in this room, found in the pride and skill of the American work force."
Last week, Timken announced that the folks right there in that room are getting fired. Timken, the world's largest industrial bearings maker, whose chairman is a major donor and fundraiser for the Republican Party, plans to shut down three factories in Canton and eliminate 1,300 jobs. (more at link)
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