The man doesn't have a clue. The country is in the dumps , Gas cost are killing normal people and the dumb one wants to talk about S.S. Retiring is not even an option for most. Tax us to death seems to be the answer.
and the dumb one wants to talk about S.S. Retiring is not even an option for most. Tax us to death seems to be the answer.
Retiring is not even an option for most......... please explain how being able to hold onto your own money is a bad thing, unless you have a crack habit.
And "tax us to death" -- explain that one. He did give us a minor tax cut, granted it's not permanent which p*sses me off, but it's a cut.
If your taxes went up, they were like Wisconsin, STATE.. not fed.
I used to pay alot of taxes ,you are right wya cut the tax rate but with his free trade we don't have jobs so he did cut all our taxes. I lost six men they got their taxes cut also.
We need some serious tariffs on imported goods, especially form china. would cut down on their rampant use of oil and it would protect american jobs. bush really has to take a stand on china. they've been coming around and buying up walnut. if they can sell it cheaper than we can(which is pretty much like pulling a rabbit out of my arse, though they probably can), we're screwed in the lumber business. we make quite a bit off veneer grade walnut, cherry, and oak, and the chinese coming into this area has made my dad and the rest of the family business fairly nervous. a year or two ago a bunch of Chinks came into our mill yard looking to buy veneer logs, and they were promptly showed where they could exit the place.
Pass my a$$. The man didn't say a damned thing about immigration or the border. Hardly anyone cares about the SS situation, yet moderates and conservatives alike are up in arms across the country about illegals!
Yes, we should work in SS. But let's do first things first for crying out loud!
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RE: OK Bush gets a pass for now
Wasnt it great. Now for all the Dems that are agianst it, what is the solution. As yall can tell, I care little about bitching unless you can propose a better option. The dems have not even tried.
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Unintended consequences and God have one thing in common: Liberals don’t believe in either of them.
My wife mentioned the other day that she has not gotten a raise in 5 years and I am making the same income I was making 5 years ago, but things are substantially more expensive. Gasoline is an obvious thing, but what has happened to the price of a gallon of milk, the price of beef, the price of cereal, the price of bread, the price of phone service to the home, etc. How far our money goes has shrunk pretty considerably.
I was working in the telecommunications technology sector (BSEE, 15 years experience designing and integrating with hardware software/hardware systems in defense, aerospace, and telecommunications) when my start-up company folded three years ago. Precious little work in the technology sector -- for someone who wants to get paid like they have 15 years of experience not like someone fresh out of college -- at least partly because a lot of this work has gone off-shore. I'm now writing patent applications in a law firm for 75% of what I made for the start-up company.
Anyway, I don't feel it is the government's duty to assure me an improving standard of living. The president and the government don't have an "EASY" button to make the economy run smoother. I don't think the government's job is to assume any problems experienced by a plurality of its citizens experience is something they have to fix. At the same time, I think that my family's experience is something that probably rises to the level of a public issue, to be discussed and deliberated about. I'm well educated, energetic, have always produced value for my employer, but the slice of the economic pie I'm getting is getting smaller. Again, I don't see this as particularly the government or GWs problem to solve, but I'm not happy with this state of affairs, and I'm betting I'm not the only one in this situation. This is in response to bawanajim's comment. Ya, SS is great, but retiring isn't on my radar screen and I don't think it is the big issue in my world, but rather this phenomenon of getting crunched by static income and stiffly rising prices.
OK Bush gets a pass for now
