John Kerry has been talking a lot about Job Creation over the past few days. Here's an article about Kerry's stance on helping the little people, like om's who can't afford day care and Bush's failure to fund Americorps..... The last statement in this article resonates one of my views on Kerry.

Kerry says Bush broke promise... He cricizes AmeriCorps funding cuts...
Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003
By ALEX ORTOLANI

ROLLINSFORD - During a presidential campaign swing yesterday, John Kerry criticized President Bush for failing to fund the service program called AmeriCorps.

The federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps recently cut payments to many of the more than 2,000 groups it supports. Kerry said Bush not only failed to push Congress to fund the program, but rescinded on a promise to expand it.

"This is the biggest say-one-thing-do-another administration I've ever seen," Kerry said to a roomful of about 100 supporters in the American Legion Hall.

"This (promise) was a centerpiece of George Bush running around the country and talking about the new culture of service . . . and here he is choosing to give the wealthiest Americans a tax cut at the expense of service."

Kerry said he would expand AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps. He also wants to start a program allowing high school graduates to exchange two years of service for their state's four-year public college tuition. He said the program would cost $3.5 billion dollars and allow more students to attend college.

During a question period, Jan Alberghene of from Dover, asked Kerry if he was strong enough to survive a campaign against the Bush administration. She said she was concerned about what she saw as his lack of a sense of humor.

Kerry countered by saying he had survived four elections in one of the toughest states in politics - Massachusetts.

"I don't think there is any candidate that has been as tested as I have been," he said. "I've been fighting for the issues I believe in since the day when I returned from Vietnam and stood up against Richard Nixon and earned the right to be on his enemies list."

When asked if New Hampshire had become a two-candidate race between himself and Howard Dean, Kerry said he was concentrating on his own campaign.

"I'm just glad it's always my campaign (that) people are being measured against," he said.

Later in the day, the candidate literally halted traffic in downtown Portsmouth when he stopped to discuss his campaign with a passing driver.

Shelly Lardin, 27, stopped Kerry on foot to ask if he could fix the lagging job market. She said she only works on the weekends because she cannot afford daycare for her 9-year-old son.

Kerry responded by saying he was running for president to help people like her. He then repeated her question to a crowd of supporters and bystanders, saying he would bring back the millions of jobs lost in recent years.

"This president has the worst job record since Herbert Hoover," Kerry said.

Martha Fuller Clark, the 2000 and 2002 Democratic nominee in New Hampshire's first congressional district, took the opportunity to announce her support for Kerry.

"He is the candidate with the strongest leadership and experience and the courage to stand up to George Bush," she said. "He's also strong on women's' issues and the issue of a woman's right to choose, which is important to me."