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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DizzyG who wrote (597603)	7/30/2004 2:30:50 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Before you sit back and congratulate yourself on how you have blasted Kenneth with a fatal rhetorical wound, consider this: Is there even a recovery? Based on what? Jobs? The number of jobs this economy has to produce just in order to keep up with the average rate of new jobless claims is more than 200K per month. It's not happening. And before you point to the big numbers of the past few months, be aware that the rate of job growth is still way below the rate during Clinton'[s administration and way delayed relative the timing of the stimulus. Not only that, anyone who has dug into the job reports in a serious way comes up with the same conclusions. Thay are bogus. The BLS plays games with the birth/death rate of job creation, "seasonal" factors, counts government jobs, presumes that people no longer on unemployment are creating a new job themselves, etc. Despite your reference to the wages of new jobs, there's alot of disagreement about just what is happening out there. Your reference is certainly not the definitive fact. As for educational costs, it all depends on where you're living, doesn't it? In CA the cost of public education has risen around 60% in just the last 3 years. If you look at the rate of tuition increase in the private colleges, it's been way faster than the rate of inflation for 15-20 years. Colleges may be offering more financial aid, but the studies you cite(which are only as good as the design of the samples they uised to collect their info) don't tell us about how much students are borrowing to pay the tuition. The educational loans to the 20-something generation, and those behind them, make them the most debt-ridden generation of young people this country has ever known. This is all while real wages are stagnant. Can Bush be blamed for county taxes? Well, blamed may not be the exact word, but if federal tax revenues are withdrawn from states and municipalities, they have to make it up somehow. And the way they make it up is by raising taxes and cutting services. Plain and simple.