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To: tejek who wrote (286198)	4/30/2006 3:47:31 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575357

re: Yet behind this prosperity is a growing unease. Half of the employed respondents say that they’ve experienced either increased health-care costs or a cut in health benefits over the last three years, and 39% have had cuts in their overtime, raises or bonuses. Almost two-thirds say they live from paycheck to paycheck, and 47% say that no matter how hard they work, they cannot get ahead. More than a third worry about job loss. It's funny (not) most of my life in this country people have pretty much felt that things were going to get better, slowly, generation by generation, for everyone. There were certainly hard times... but people were still optimistic. Now, it looks like things are just going to get worse and worse for the people of this country. And the scary part is that the people I talk to just accept it... they are not pissed and they are not fighting, like previous generations did. I've become convinced that US prosperity, the "land of opportunity" stuff, is over. We've become "old Europe" at best... maybe much worse. It's going to be a long hard fall; I hope it's not too fast.