http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4538909§ion=newsCHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic White House candidate John Kerry on Wednesday slammed George W. Bush for giving average Americans "the short end of the stick" and said the Republican president's tax cuts were digging the U.S. economy into a deeper hole.
Before heading to Washington for talks with former rival Howard Dean, Kerry told the AFL-CIO labor federation's winter meeting that Republicans would run a campaign of "fear and blame" but that he was ready for it.
"It must be getting lonely for George Bush. It seems he's the last person in America who actually believes his failed policies will ever work," Kerry told the umbrella group of more than 60 unions representing 13 million workers. He spoke by satellite from a factory in Chicago to the meeting in Bal Harbour, Florida.
Borrowing from Dean's rhetoric, Kerry argued that there really was no middle class tax cut under Bush. When the president's economic policies were added up then the burden on the middle class was effectively increased by a "Bush tax."
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looks like the meeting with Dean is to get him to endorse Kerry and get the Dean supporters