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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (194348)7/15/2004 8:32:32 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575678
 
Unemployment is low,

Low in comparison to the Reagan years but not to the Clinton years.


Low compared to most of modern American history. As for Clinton see

timblair.spleenville.com

and

nationalreview.com

"wages are not declining"

The avg. hourly wage has been declining since November.


Job's Picture July 2, 2004
Last month, hourly wages rose only slightly, by 0.1%, and are 2% above their level of one year ago, before adjusting for inflation.
epinet.org

Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

In any case the average wages should do up as the expansion continues. If Kerry does get elected he will be able to reap positive accolades for being around to reap the fruit of Bush's policies.

and people are not being arrested for what they check out at libraries

A conservative group tried to have a book burning party in Iowa but the city would not issue the permit.


And who was arrested for what they checked out?

Tim
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