Speaking before roughly 500 union members and supporters in Cedar
Rapids today, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said it is past time for
there to be "an American president who will finally be on the side of
the middle class." "The [Bush] administration has failed to protect
the engine of our economy -- the middle class," he said during the
30-minute speech. "Productivity is up, yet real wages are down.
American workers are holding up their end of the deal, but their
government is not." In discussing the current state of the United
State's fiscal health, Richardson chided Bush for "acting like a
spoiled teenager who crashes the family car and then hopes no one will
notice."

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