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Bush's economic miracle may have more to do with Illegal immigration than paltry tax cut's. People feel OK but are uneasy, maybe because they can not figure what is holding it all up?

That's a very interesting point. My own federal taxes have decreased only slightly, and my salary hasn't really kept up with inflation (though I'm not hurting). The state and local taxes have gone up considerably. Slow bleed of the middle class.

There is allot of conflicting common sense economic data.

Goods are cheap but food has gotten very expensive.

If a kid works at McDonald's and makes $250.00, and so after taxes he brings home a couple of hundred. Now he wants to take his girlfriend out to dinner and a movie. Gas, dinner, movie could cost almost half his paycheck or at least a good portion of it. Something is out of whack.

I took my daughter to a bowling ally with a friend. $80.00 for a couple of hrs. $80? why not $15 or 20?

Yet I can go out and buy a computer for $500.00? There seems to be a disconnect between services and goods or goods that require service.

My brother in law is an attorney with a couple mill in the bank, house paid for etc. has a kid out Harvard now going to graduate school another graduating Yale and headed to law school. For the first time in 20 years he is sweating cash flow big time and losing ground on his affluent lifestyle. A million dollars ain't what it used to be.

So what's my point? Out sourcing, immigration are the smoke and mirrors that are hiding our true economy and I believe that is why Bush is fighting the public wish or desire, otherwise it all falls apart. (We are maybe more like Sweden than we think)