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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 6 2004, 04:06 PM
He won't? That's what has been dominating his stump stop speeches. He has plenty to talk about too....12 straight months of job creation, a declining unemployment rate and record home ownership for those of us that he 'sold out' in the middle class.
I'm better off since Bush took office DESPITE losing a great job to 9-11. I'm not the only one.
You're swallowing the Kerry/Edwards lines. I'm living a different story than they are telling.
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12 straight months of minimal job growth much below what is needed to sustain an economy let alone grow it. Bush is not even keeping up with the average population growth of the USA. Declining unemployment is a subjective number since it is based on citizens actually applying for Unemployment benefits. I think many people have just given up, hoping for a different regime with different results. Record home ownership is Bush's one positive economic indicator that he can campaign on that will be hard to argue with, although Greenspan's low interest rates that are suppose to stimulate a flagging economy may have something to do with the low mortgage rates and thus more emphasis on home ownership.
I would love to see Bush and Kerry talk about
1) Deficits, how much is enough and how much is too much?
2) Taxes, who should they be cut for
3) Medicare
4) Compassionate Conservatism (like the Olympics, it arrives every four years)
5) The Environment, how much should we pollute the earth
6) Social Security
7) Education
8) The fact that the jobs that are being "replaced" are much lower paying than the ones that have been lost
9) Corporate corruption at Haliburton in 98,99 and whether high ranking officials were responsible (I just like this one, do not know how much it has to do with the national debate
10) Cheney's national energy program circa 2001/2002 and the price of gasoline at the pumps.