[logician2u]

So many have been saying it for the last few years and they're correct, this is all going to come back and bite the GOP big-time.

And you prefer the anti-business, anti-free-trade rhetoric of a Richard Gephardt over the nominal free-trade policies of the Bush administration?

Perhaps you're right. If enough Republicans join with the populists and zenophobes and know-nothings and stir up fear among the blue-collar voters (who are not totally in the Democrats' camp, as the teachers are) and make a big enough stink about real and imagined jobs being lost to H-1B visas, illegal immigration, outsourcing, insourcing, downsizing -- and, don't forget, it's all George W. Bush's fault! -- the dishonest Dems really could have a chance to retake the Congress.

Sadly, most Americans are as ignorant of basic economics as they are of nuclear physics. Democrats more so, Republicans only slightly less so.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

And you prefer the anti-business, anti-free-trade rhetoric of a Richard Gephardt over the nominal free-trade policies of the Bush administration?

We all want business to thrive in the United States, that's the point, the government is artificially forcing competition on them. Bush talks about China and India rising as competitors. Why is that happening all of a sudden, could the free trade agreements he appears obsessed with pursuing have something to do with it?

If enough Republicans join with the populists and zenophobes and know-nothings and stir up fear among the blue-collar voters

In case you forgot, it was those blue-collar Reagan democrats who gave us conservatism in the eighties. If you start messing with their economic situation the Richard Gephardts will be running the show in the not too distant future.

[Dewy]

Please!!!!! teach us little people basic economics.

We little people that voted for bush are still waiting for the job ship to come in. I know record profits are being reported and everyones portfolio is bursting.

But us little people are still taking the cute in our wages. I have worked the same job for the last 20 years, I am making 600.00 a month less this year over last.

Please tell me how through your basic economics 101, how to improve that?