our trading partners give us no choice. Every other major auto manufacturing country protects their industry so we may have to do the same. 
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during a global conference of political and business leaders in Cernobbio, by the Como lake, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Cheney renewed his call for cooperation between Europe and Washington over the Georgia crisis, Italy's foreign minister said Sunday.
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Deputy chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) Andrea Nahles arrives for a party leaders meeting at the resort hotel Schwielowsee in Werder, south of Berlin September 7, 2008. Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) will nominate Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's election, party members said.
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Performers realease balloons into the air in central Moscow on September 7, 2008 during celebrations for the 861st anniversary of the founding of Moscow.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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A year ago, the unemployment rate was 1.4% better than it is now, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, it's at a five-year high. Mister Bush is "disappointed." The expectation was a loss of 75,000 jobs in August, but it turned out to be 84,
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A cruel summer for American workers continued in August as the U.S. jobless rate spiked to 6.1 percent, its highest level in five years.</p><p>A week that began with a holiday to celebrate the country’s labor force ended with
A year ago, the unemployment rate was 1.4% better than it is now, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, it's at a five-year high. Mister Bush is "disappointed." The expectation was a loss of 75,000 jobs in August, but it turned out to be 84,
American workers' productivity in the last quarter was way up, according to a government report. But another report said labor costs decreased. That may be good news for those worried about inflation, but not so good for workers. Janet Babin
Today, the Labor Department reported the economy lost 84,000 payroll jobs in August, after losing 60,000 jobs in July. This was much worse than was expected, as the full weight of banking crisis, rising oil prices and imports from China drive up
Credit markets, high oil prices still a concern
Recently, the Department of Labor reported productivity in the non-farm private business sector increased at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2008. This was a very good showing the
The percentage of Americans who are out of work and looking for jobs hit a much higher than expected 6.1 percent in August, up 0.4 percentage points from July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
This is nearly a five-year high—the last time
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Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio -- that's where the election is going to be decided right there
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There are no restrictions in the language on which companies are in and which companies are out
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The long term goal of the legislation was to increase energy security and to ensure the US has the domestic capacity necessary for building more efficient vehicles
said John Bozzella
