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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (6772)	3/13/2004 12:23:51 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Massive layoffs are still going on, bubba. Sure there's hiring at lower levels but my corporate executive friends are terrified. Every company is out-sourcing and/or downsizing and/or merging. Plus ther are so many hungry workes coming out of college it's cheap and easy to just hire a kid and lay off the family man. The corps want to do away with pensions and health and welfare benefits. That's the key. GThis is all peaking on Bush's watch and he hasn't said or done a damned thing about it. That's why he woin't even be able to win traditionally Republican states like Ohio this year. And Florida he just lost with the Medicare fraud and lies story.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (6772)	3/13/2004 1:53:17 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 81568

I think its laughable that with the onset of the landslide of wrongheaded, offbase, whacked out predictions that Bush apologizers have made for the last year, you still try to convince yourself you are some sort of oracle. Simply you do not understand the dynamics of the market. I know the market. I have known this issue would bite bush for two years. We've lost a lot more than 3 million WHITE COLLAR jobs. The real picture is much worse than the White House press indicates. The jobs picture, and dramatic wage deflation in high paying indusries is the real reason the deficit is 560 billion. Missteps on Economy Worry Bush Supporters A string of glaring missteps by President Bush's economic team has raised alarm among the president's supporters that his economic policymakers may have lost the most basic ability to formulate a persuasive message or anticipate the political consequences of their actions. In recent weeks, the White House has had to endure its chief economist's positive comments about job "outsourcing," or sending work overseas; controversial passages in the annual Economic Report of the President; questions over the legitimacy of Bush's 2005 budget; a California swing in which Bush bragged about the creation of two jobs in Bakersfield; and a flap over a job-creation forecast that not even the president could stand by. "They've populated the place with an absence of ideas guys, which is fine if you think you can put it on autopilot and win," he said. "But it doesn't look like it's working. washingtonpost.com