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Originally posted by EddyBeers@Sep 6 2004, 05:16 PM
I forgot to ask how you are better off, what has Bush done to make you feel or actually be better off than you were under Clinton?
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Well, that's a tough question and not really a fair one to President Clinton. He was elected in 1992 and I was 21 at the time. Kind of hard for me not to be better off now than I was then....
but, I'm better off now than I was January of 2000. I own a home which I could not afford then despite making more money then. My tax burden has decreased (it decreased under Clinton as well). Bush's extension of Unemployment benefits helped bridge the 10 month gap I had between jobs. His massive funding of the Workforce Investment Act and TRA (a similar program I've forgotten what the acronym stands for) paid for 2 years of further education.
Since the purchase of my home, my kids are now in one of the best school districts in the state of Kansas as opposed to the inner city school that they were attending for all their school years prior because I could not afford to get us out of the neighborhood. I've spent $12,000 getting my daughter caught up to her current class level when the previous district said she was where she was supposed to be. She wasn't. Said neighborhood was crime riddled and we had a very traumatic and personal collision with a crime in that neighborhood. The lax laws in this country regarding pedohphiles are an issue I'll take up with EVERY candidated for every office as a result of this incident. This person will be out in less than 10 years and that's disgusting. I'd like to see harsher penalties for them.
The one area where I'm not better off is health insurance...I had a great and FREE plan at Boeing (wonder why I lost my job after 9/11?) and I haven't had insurance since as the job I got doesn't offer insurance.....until tomorrow...I've been promoted and my family will once again have affordable health insurance.
Fair enough?