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Pastimes : ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jackhach who wrote (14)	4/26/2003 12:45:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 113

How are things in your home state -- may I ask? Are there many jobs to be found -- that is, that actually pay a professional's salary. Honestly, I'm not aware of any problem with jobs here. I certainly don't know anyone who is unemployed, and the city I live in is booming. Are more and more of your employer's health care benefits being paid by you? I am self-employed and therefore pay my own premiums. And they have gone up. Furthermore, I've had customers who went out of business in the last year. Why? My customers are physicians. At least three of them have closed their doors or been forced to sell out their practices because their medical malpractice insurance premiums increased tenfold year to year due to the continued ripoffs of the system by trial lawyers. Has youir employer retired/reduced the match on your 401(k) contributions? I match my own damned contributions. And I'm contributing more than ever. Honestly, if you're trying to make the argument that the economy is bad, you're talking to the wrong guy. I'm making more and saving more than ever. Not that Bush had anything to do with it. I've been self employed for 25 years and nothing any president has done YET has had any effect on my income, OTHER than the Reagan tax reform which closed horrible loopholes, but at the same time made it virtually impossible for many taxpayers to do their own returns, making my CPA firm's tax prep business double in a two-year span.