Why have salaries gone down every year under Bush?

Question

Aren't Republicans supposed to be helping Americans financially?

According to the data released annually by the Census Bureau, real median household incomes have fallen each year under President Bush. Since the year before Bush took office and the end of the last business cycle, real median household incomes fell $1,669 in 2004 dollars from $46,058 in 2000 to $44,389 in 2004 (the last year reported). Even since the recession ended in 2001, they have declined $673 from $45,062.
• The poverty rate has risen each year under President Bush, from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001 and then to 12.7 percent in 2004.

This answer: "Mine has gone up"

Just about sums up the cancer that is eating America, and killing it.

btw: Many of the people who think their salaries have gone up under Bush, just aren't intelligent enough to factor in inflation, and what their salary would be if we weren't in the weakest job recovery in American history. i.e. There are people who eat a crap sandwich and tell you it's great, just because they don't know there is something better out there.

Salaries went up every year under Clinton, you brainwashed bozo.

Answer 1

Mine has gone up..

Answer 2

Sporky.. that is such a load of crap!!! methinks you really need to go back a few more years and look what happend to salaries ( and taxes) under Clinton and Carter.. I dont know about you but I dont let ANY political party dictate my wages.. you can do the same. Try getting an EDUCATION instead of this liberial manifesto you put here.. I know..its all Bush's fault.. taxes, the war, gas prices.. the sinking of the Titanic.. you guys make me wanna puke.

Answer 3

World has become like a village.In India and China salaries have increased many fold.Even many other emerging markets.America is technology driven economy. This technology percolates to other economies of the world at very fast pace.Hence work goes to other country from USA.Hence downtrend in salary.

Answer 4

Get used to it,

Global economy, Exporting jobs, Walmart syndrome, We all be working for pennies when the job exporting bubble bursts.

Bush hasn't helped the bottom line for us under 100K
but it won't get fixed simply by electing another president.

Answer 5

Bush is a liberal on economics. He believes in free trade and a growing federal deficit and high inflation. That's why our economy is so screwed up right now. He's disappointed many Republicans on that one.

Answer 6

Republicans spew that helping corporations (that means their buddies heading the corporations) helps americans. Corporations continuously screw the american public with there immeasurable theft of our futures and get all the support they need from Bush and his recycled Nixon administration.

Answer 7

Crazy! And to think at some point the biggest problem this country was facing was a come stained dress. As Yakov Smirnoff would say, "what a country!"

Answer 8

That's a typical liberal statement. As far as the poverty rate, why should I have $ taken out of my check to support someone to lazy to get a job? Not including involents who can't make a living for themselves.

Answer 9

Because Bush cares only about big business. The rich get super rich, and the rest of us pay for it.

Answer 10

The war

Answer 11

Not aware of these. Mine has been going up under Bush Administration.