[pray4liberty]

Down so much that I hired another employee.

That's the idea, and good for you and your new employee.

You and your neighbor ought to make a campaign commercial for Bush, to counter all those nasty lies about how he doesn't help people like you and me.

My tax return paid the start-up costs for my online business (http://www.bdazzleddesigns.com). Maybe I ought to be in the commercial too. He needs real Americans to stump for him, that we're all not traditional Republican country-club rich, and some of us are minorities, too.

[Agrarian]

The tax cuts helped us expand and hire, too. Since I and my partners would be hit hard by Kerry's tax increases, it will of course hurt chances for any increased spending and hiring on our part.

Some way to increase federal revenues...

But then, liberal politics has always been about the super-rich manipulating the poor with the politics of envy, to the detriment of the middle classes, not about doing anything useful. Read the history of the late Roman Republic -- nothing new under the sun...