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

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (15003)	4/15/2004 4:25:47 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 81568

Without getting into my income I have to say I find it amazing that people can operate on 42k per year. I live in the midwest (Wisconsin) where housing and cost of living is cheap compared to many areas. But when you add up the taxes I just don't know how anyone can own 2 cars, a house, pay for insurance, save for retirement, have kids, pay for clothes and put food on the table with 42k

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (15003)	4/15/2004 4:35:17 PM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 81568

"We know from the BLS that real family incomes have declined slightly since Jan 2001 (Bush took office)." Oh, this ought to be delicious. Are you entitled to constantly expanding income? There is a short name for that. inflation. I'll bet you could join up with James Carville, arm yourselves with the bestseller "How to lie with Microsoft Excel" and spin this for an entire book. This couldn't have happened due to the stock market implosion, the exhaustion of unearned income from daytrading, couldn't be the end of the dot com tech boom, couldn't be an unavoidable economic cycle in job growth. Couldn't be Clinton squandered the 8 years he had to prevent 9/11 from happening instead of creating more handouts for the unemployable and now we have to make up for it. No, that just doesn't make sense, does it?