Posted on 09/18/2006 5:32:03 AM PDT by Hydroshock
What?!??
The media hates Bush and will dig for dirt as hard as they can??
Unfortunately for them, the unemployment rate, interest rates, tax rates, fuel prices, etc are all going against the anti-crats.
Gas prices are killing the Dems
I will say this in my families budget we have had to tighten it to meet the rising cost over the past year or so. Raise have not kept up for us.
I have to admit that falling gas prices are nice, now if my taxes (local adn state) would stop shooting through the roof.
I have questions on whether the economy is going that well, I have not seen much real wage growth.
I am rich? I gotta call the wife!!!
I was there in 1976 when Jimmy Carter took our economy and drove it into the ground. Try 9% unemployment, 18% interest rates, gas lines (odd and even) and inflation at around 12%.
After seeing a truly horrible economy, I guess I can tell a good one when I see it.
They went to a weak spot in the nation to gather this story. They could have done it in California 3 years ago after Gray Davis drove the state into a funk. Some issues are local.
These are places where the economy ALWAYS sucks-Appalachia. No politician benefits from this.
The health of the economy is based on a myriad of factors, not simply wage growth.
I would like to see what job skills and education a "then-and-now-merchant" has on his resume that would convince me to hire him. Although I have never been interviewed because I don't fit the people that they need to make an article like this, I am middle class and both I and my wife have the best jobs we have ever had, and are paying off our credit cards. I had steak last night. (Granted it was "dented" steak with a near expiration date, but it was better steak than I usually buy.) We're living on a golf course, but we are light years ahead of this sad sack, both in attitude and finances. And in my experience, the second flows out of the first.
"We'll never see 99 cents again," the Republican said of gas prices. "Everything's jumping — your gas, your food and everything — but your wages don't go up."
Mine have. And if previous administrations had stopped terror and drilled our own resources, prices wouldn't be. The cost of "food and everything" comes out of the cost to grow and transport stuff, mam. Drill ANWR, you "Republican".
And you will be sure to post them. How you must love these negative stories.
I read somewhere that if you take household incomes and divide into 5 segements, it's the upper and lower that vote majority Democrat. The middle three vote Republican.
I would like to see what job skills and education a "then-and-now-merchant" has on his resume that would convince me to hire him. Although I have never been interviewed because I don't fit the people that they need to make an article like this, I am middle class and both I and my wife have the best jobs we have ever had, and are paying off our credit cards. I had steak last night. (Granted it was "dented" steak with a near expiration date, but it was better steak than I usually buy.) We're living on a golf course, but we are light years ahead of this sad sack, both in attitude and finances. And in my experience, the second flows out of the first.
"We'll never see 99 cents again," the Republican said of gas prices. "Everything's jumping — your gas, your food and everything — but your wages don't go up."
Mine have. And if previous administrations had stopped terror and drilled our own resources, prices wouldn't be. The cost of "food and everything" comes out of the cost to grow and transport stuff, mam. Drill ANWR, you "Republican".
We have fat poor people.
You'd have to have spent time in another country to appreciate the logical disconnect there. Americans aren't equal in wealth distrubution, but we're equally spoiled.
At this stage wage growth is a majopr factor in the health of my economy. ;)
Personally, I turned down three job offers which would have paid $20k more than what I make right now, because the companies donate to abortion clinics. In general, Conservatives tend to work more "honest jobs", manual labor, and have larger families etc, live paycheck to paycheck. If you're speaking about your personal wages, then maybe its cause you picked an honest line of work like the rest of us?
From the same people who will bitch about FoxNews being biased.
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