Maxprop wrote:
The current unemployment rate just dropped from 5.5% to 5.4%. The avg.
unemployment rate during the Clinton administration was 5.8%. Doesn't wash.
People are beginning to tune Kerry out when he talks about the horrendous
unemployment rate. They don't believe him any more.

You must be referring to people who mostly get their "facts" from
fascist tub-thumpers shilling for Bush & Cheney.

Most other people in the country have experience either directly, or one
of their friends or family, struggling with long term unemployment or
underemployment.

The fact of the matter is that there are fewer jobs now than in 2000,
when we "were beginning a Clinton-induced recession" according to your
own favorite sources.

Another fact is that families discretionary income is at a low point,
and dropping further.

To the reasonable person, it seems pretty obvious that the "Bush
economy" chiefly benefits the ultra rich and offshore corporations.
Certainly that mega-gazillion dollar defecit is not helping the economy
anywhere near as much as might be expected. And it's been a couple years
now, how long does it take to "kick start" the economy?

DSK