Comments on: So … ARE you better off? http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/ There is nothing wrong with being "edgy". Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Curtis http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/#comment-32874 Curtis Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:41:39 +0000 http://jmbell.org/blog/?p=1359#comment-32874 Typical Democratic agenda, using FACTS to make a point! Where is the feel good rhetoric?! Where is the need to blame people who are different from you?! Where is the waving American flag?! Eight years ago I was still in high school...here is what I remember: lower gas prices, having health insurance, friends and neighbors getting quality jobs. Here is what I know now. I have a college degree that cost more and more every year to get, having no permanent job and certainly no health insurance, the fear that my friends may die in a war, and having to save my pennies to pay for gas. Overall things are worse. A vote for John McCain is a vote for four more years of rising inflation, environmental damage, continued unrest in the international community, and a general decline in this nation. Typical Democratic agenda, using FACTS to make a point! Where is the feel good rhetoric?! Where is the need to blame people who are different from you?! Where is the waving American flag?!

Eight years ago I was still in high school…here is what I remember: lower gas prices, having health insurance, friends and neighbors getting quality jobs.

Here is what I know now. I have a college degree that cost more and more every year to get, having no permanent job and certainly no health insurance, the fear that my friends may die in a war, and having to save my pennies to pay for gas.

Overall things are worse. A vote for John McCain is a vote for four more years of rising inflation, environmental damage, continued unrest in the international community, and a general decline in this nation.

]]> By: jasonthe http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/#comment-32744 jasonthe Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:15:38 +0000 http://jmbell.org/blog/?p=1359#comment-32744 Speaking from a self employed perspective, absolutely not better off. My income is dependent in a very large way on other people having jobs, feeling secure in their jobs, and feeling secure in the future of their own business. They don't. Speaking from a self employed perspective, absolutely not better off.

My income is dependent in a very large way on other people having jobs, feeling secure in their jobs, and feeling secure in the future of their own business.

They don’t.

]]> By: Vila http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/#comment-32734 Vila Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:35:11 +0000 http://jmbell.org/blog/?p=1359#comment-32734 Instead of just 1 job's wage taking care of things, the same job I have had for the last 5 years,(with annual raises I might add), I now have to be working or looking for, a 2nd part time job to supplement the primary job. Some folks maybe better off, since Ut has a very high employment rate and job market, but in general for the rest of the U.S., things have all gone to hell in a hand basket, and that little hand basket is not getting out of hell any time soon. Instead of just 1 job’s wage taking care of things, the same job I have had for the last 5 years,(with annual raises I might add), I now have to be working or looking for, a 2nd part time job to supplement the primary job.

Some folks maybe better off, since Ut has a very high employment rate and job market, but in general for the rest of the U.S., things have all gone to hell in a hand basket, and that little hand basket is not getting out of hell any time soon.

]]> By: Cameron http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/#comment-32643 Cameron Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:34:57 +0000 http://jmbell.org/blog/?p=1359#comment-32643 <a href="http://magicvalleymormon.blogspot.com/2008/04/tax-cuts-for-rich-1999-vs-2007.html" rel="nofollow">Yep.</a> Yep.

]]> By: Jesse Harris http://jmbell.org/blog/2008/04/21/so-are-you-better-off/#comment-32635 Jesse Harris Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:26:28 +0000 http://jmbell.org/blog/?p=1359#comment-32635 My personal situation is much better than it was in 2000. Maybe it's just me. My personal situation is much better than it was in 2000. Maybe it’s just me.

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