So this is Mr Bush's great economy huh?

Question

The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.
Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and energy bills. It’s starting to affect middle-income working families as well as the poor, and has reached the point of affecting day-to-day calculations of merchants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 7-Eleven Inc. and Family Dollar Stores Inc.
Food pantries, which distribute foodstuffs to the needy, are reporting severe shortages and reduced government funding at the very time that they are seeing a surge of new people seeking their help.

And how do our friends in the Bush administration respond to these conditions?By cutting funding for food pantries, and encouraging people to rely on the kindness of strangers.

So this is that compassionate conservatism is it

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_bi_ge/stretching_paychecks

Hey civil why are prices out of control is Mr Bush's economy is so great

Grips is the typical Neocon, screw my fellow Americans cause I got mine, what an immoral response to an American crisis

Mustagme Must live in a bubble or gated community

Answer 1

This is the classic flaw in the 'new' conservative politics. The reactionaries of the GOP are 'backward' looking. Yet the world rushes ahead at the speed of light. The entire economy of the world has changed radically in just the last decade. People who looked ahead saw this coming and were inclined to protect the American wage-earner from the worst effects of this change and actually thought to take advantage of it. They lost two elections in a row. The neo-cons, the new conservatives, saw only more profits for the trans-national corporations. Massive amounts of right wing propaganda got out the message that this was a good thing. They won two elections in a row. Tax breaks allowed corporations to use their wealth to buy up other corporations to increase market share...which they do to the tune of billions of dollars...dollars that come out of the paychecks of the American worker. Corporations don't 'invest' as we're constantly told as the world is now at 100% production.....a lot of it in China and other 3rd world countries where wages are low and environmental considerations are nil. Basically our birth right has been sold for 'everyday low prices'.....but now the prices are creeping up, pay is going down, wealth is accumulating at the top and American worker is going down the tubes in debt and confusion. People who saw this coming were laughed at as anti-business 'liberals'. The sound of chickens coming home is going to be really hard to ignore!

Answer 2

Tell me about it.
When Bush came into office 6 years ago I could pay all my bills on three 40 hour checks a month, the fourth was for savings and enjoyment. Now it takes four forty hour checks and at least 10 hours overtime to pay the same bills I had 6 years ago. If I don't get overtime every month, something won't get paid and our boss is talking cutbacks because work is drying up.
Since Bush has been in office my light bill, food bill, gas(auto), health ins., auto ins., home ins., mortgage and local taxes have gone up (people don't realize Bush's federal tax cuts meant an increase in local school and property taxes to make up the difference) to the point where I am having a hard time keeping up, and yes, my salary has increased also, but no where near enough to keep up.
Bush's economy is smoke and mirriors, he will do to this country the same thing he did to every business he ever ran. he will run it into the ground, take the money and run and leave the taxpayers footing the bill.
and people wonder why I prefered Clinton.

Answer 3

In the land of global solutions, the world economy has improved, although still requiring more dedication.

To be a good worker, and having attained the necessary skills and job preparation and having been certified to perform within a limited job spectrum, the worker can now attain a paying job and also afford basic living necessities with the assistance of a partner in life--it is more of a necessity than it was in a former economy, however there has not been a global focus on promoting a more nasty job environment, meaning that the goal has not been to flood the economy with jobs that cannot be filled to appease the corporations.

The global solutions department ( if you will ) has been primarily concerned with corporate tax breaks that can be passes onto their "workers", although at the same time the government will now manage family resources--there will be no spikes, peaks or valleys in what you can attain in the Land of Opportunity, once again, it will be a kinder, gentler America--brought to you by the bi-partisan effort.

Answer 4

Bush is an Evil Demon !! His heart is made of black ice , he gives the Billionaire co.s 10xs as much $$ in tax breaks then he saved cutting the formula and cereal programs for babies of the poor. He Signs his fast track deals to send the good paying jobs out of the country so "His Base" can save billions in wages and benefits, mean while American workers have to work 2 min. wage jobs to pay the energy bills that Bush "deregulated" so they can raise our heat/electric bills 25 to 40 % every year that Bush has been in office . Things will get worse before they get better as big biz jacks up prices in order to stuff there pockets with your hard earned pay before Bush leaves Office. He Is an EVIL Peice of steaming SH*T !~

Answer 5

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I recently happened to get this data
iam not sure how far this is true

The report says...
SOME Hard to digest facts
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I have plan to leave America for Switzerland, will u join? because of heavy US debts !!!?

America has foreign loans
worth 250 Trillion US dollars
and every American citizen has to pay
one million US dollars
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This is really Baffling !!!

The whole world looks up to USA ....as the Nation of Prosperity
The Nation of Finanically Wealthy People
The Nation of Philanthropists
The Nation that gives FREEDOM

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The whole world ...admires and Plans to Migrate to USA ...due to its prosperity and due to claimed huge oppurtunities
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Answer 6

I am a volunteer director of a local food pantry that serves those infected and effected by AIDS/HIV.

Most of our clients live on very limited, or no incomes at all.

Some of them are lucky enough to be able to live with other relatives, but for those who are not so lucky, life, in the United States, is very tough.

Most of our families work, and many of them have both husband and wife working, but with their combined incomes, there's just not enough money to pay rent and buy groceries.

Soup lines are very long in every American city and town, but it seems that for the first time in this country's history the government has turned it's back on it's people.

Food stamps are only given to mothers with children, but not enough to give the children a thimble full of milk on a daily basis.

$75.00 worth of food stamps just doesn't go very far with a family of 4.

The price of gasoline is skyrocketing on a daily basis, but wages have not gone up.

Instead, America is plagued with low-paying jobs with absolutely no chance of climbing to the top.

Heck, even if you are a manager of McD's you don't get paid enough to pay your rent.

Good luck with car payments...

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Answer 7

It's sad that our energy costs are taking place of feeding America healthy food. I truly hope there is some change in the way our basic needs keep becoming more expensive. In my house, we set our thermostat for 66 degrees in order to not have a $350 heating bill. I really wish our government would focus more research on alternative fuels rather than arguing along party lines.

Answer 8

Here is the real question? Why is it the job of the federal government (regardless of who is president) to take care of food pantries and other social service programs?

It is not. Our economy is doing okay, but could be better. Real jobs have left the country and the only way to stop it is make it tax unfriendly for imports etc. However, neither party will do this. You can't blame just Bush for these policies. We have been consistently destroying our country for 50 years.

Answer 9

The USA got, what its voters wanted, a war mongering puppet on the strings of big oil and big military (87% of Americans lost wealth in the last 7 years, 1% quadrupled wealth).

Answer 10

Sounds to me like the Liberal media is at it again. Why are they living from pay check to paycheck? What kind of jobs do these people have, are they attending classes to better their home situation? If they are working at menial paying jobs, I suggest they get some technical or college training and quit whinning about the government not taking care of them. We do have a strong economy. But you won't make good money as a cashier at 7-11, at least not enough to care for a family!
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