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To: Road Walker who wrote (245761)	8/12/2005 1:37:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574680

There may be some truth to that. But the overarching explanation is that people are feeling insecure because they understand that today's economy is built on shaky fundamentals. Average Americans may not sit around fretting about America's outsized budget and trade deficits, and its unprecedented foreign indebtedness. But many of them - as buyers, borrowers and employees - are concerned about the increasingly bubbly housing sector. The economy's shortcomings are nowhere more obvious than in the job market. Nearly four years into an economic expansion, job growth is still substantially slower than in previous recoveries. Wages for 80 percent of the work force are barely keeping pace with inflation, and aid for the workers hurt by global trade is paltry. Because Mr. Bush fails to acknowledge the lackluster job and wage growth, he fails to respond appropriately. The administration's insistence that the economy is getting better all the time - a stance that is based on statistical aggregates that are often divorced from individuals' actual experience - only intensifies the anxiety that people feel. I was listening to his speech/pronouncements from Crawford yesterday..........and you know how much I like listening to him; almost reflexively I want to revisit my meal from earlier in the day; and I realized they really don't have a clue about anything and really don't care one iota about anyone. They present themselves [Bush,Rummie, Ricie and yes, even Cheney was there] as if they are 4 very decent people when everyone knows that's not true with the reporters acting just a bit afraid of them. You should have heard Bush talk about Sheehan..........."I've thought long and hard about her position and just don't agree with it.......we can not pull out of Iraq." Yeah, right. Like he's ever thought long and hard about anything. He has Rove to think long and hard for him..........btw Rove was absent. Then it struck me......if Americans want this cancer out of the WH, we just can't elect them out. Americans must stand up to them and show they we are not afraid them; that they don't want them around anymore. Every last one of them must go. Kind of like a public chemotherapy or liposuction. ted