Sure, but not for everyone. If everything is going great with the economy, then why is the gap between rich and poor getting larger?

What Drake said, but there is also another reason why, even after spending trillions on the “War on Poverty” and having years of opportunity and a good economy, we still have so many people below the poverty line: We keep importing poverty. Close the borders, repatriate the illegals, turn off the magnet.

Bingo. Poverty stats will drop steadily.

This is socialim’s dirty little secret. The further to the left we go the bigger that gap gets. Check out how that gap has grown since the days of FDR, check out the slums of paris. The rich will always find a way to get richer, while socialism just keeps taking away opportunities for the everyone else. I do agree that all of our elected officials need to take a severe paycut and have any future pay raises set only by a referendum of the people.

Why is the middle class getting smaller?

Again it’s the oppression of socialism and the tendency towards a directed economy. If the government would stop creating policies that squeeze the middle class it would stop shrinking.

The economy is booming, but only for a select few. The rest of us sit on the sidelines while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Oh, and the federal min. wage hasn’t been raised in nearly ten years. But Congress has given themselves raises many times since then.

Raising the minimum wage is a big part in why jobs keep getting shipped offshore. Why can’t GM compete in North America, yet it is highly competitive in the rest of the world? Raising the minimum wage is also a big part in the shrinking middle class. If you give another big increase, what do yo suppose the businesses will do? Do you think they’ll just say golly gee, I guess we’ll just absorb that loss and make less money? Of course not, they’ll pass the cost on to the consumers. Ever wonder why you can’t buy a candy bar for a dime anymore? Not too long ago it used to be labor was cheap parts were expensive, now both are expensive. Now consider who will get this wage increase. Is it people in the middle class? Nope, is it even people in the lower middle class? Nope. In fact nearly everyone gets squeezed because everything is more expensive and only a very small minority get a raise, a raise which only keeps them at pace with inflation while the rest of us now make less. Think about this for a minute, if raising the minimum wage laws are such a great idea, why not make minimum wage a million dollars an hour? Then we can all pretend to be rich for the day or so before reality sets in.

The American people smell a rat. Maybe that’s why the republican controlled congress is polling worse than Bush is. Job Approval somewhere in the 20%s.

Have you ever seen a poll for democrats in congress? The numbers are roughly the same as for republicans. Funny how the media rarely shows that poll. The American people are fed up alright, but it’s with the ineptitude of both parties.

Americas best days are behind us

On this I agree. Unles we dump the oppression of socialism and return to the policies that made this country the greatest economy the world has ever seen our best days are long gone.

Fuk you dude,,, you suck! I can’t believe you say the shit you say. You say your team is Patriotic and the right hates America? If you said shit like that in front of a soldier or two,,, and I mean some that aren’t closet homos or cowards, I would bet a months pay they would bust your fukin teeth out.

14. Robert,,, give up man, you are wasting your breath on an Idiot. Save your energy for somebody more useful.

OUT

Now WMD aside, and the fact that virtually every political leader on both sides of the aisle called for force to remove Saddam, and that everyone knew he had to go, and that Iraq as a U.S. ally in the heart of the terrorism beast is extremely useful, are you aware that the Gulf War actually never ended? That there was a cease-fire by agreement? Stay with me now… And that Saddam broke the agreement? And that there were 14 UN resolutions authorizing military force to enforce the agreement? Still with me? So just think of this as a continuation of the Gulf War, in the simplest terms.

Feel better now?

…or maybe the way of the Right is the way to death and dismemberment of our fighting men and women in unnecessary wars of choice over “vast” stockpiles of WMDs that were never found…

No, I’m not joking when I ask why your team hates America so much. You haven’t the foggiest clue as to how bad our nation looks right now in the eyes of the world because of the unnecessary and aggressive invasion of a country THAT DID NOT ATTACK US ON 9/11. Not sure why you still think that a nation that had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11 needed to be invaded and occupied. Oh, I know why: Oil and regional hegemony. Imperialist.

Face it. Because of you and your man, we’re global thugs and were a bigger threat to peace and stability than the current terror threat. Look it up.

The way your team shakes in its boots and cowers in fear of these “terrorists” is unbecoming and quite frankly pathetic. The overreaction of the Iraq War is the United States greatest military blunder next to Vietnam.

Now there’s a interesting comment. Apparently when you feel (based on push polls) that the majority of Americans agree with you, why the majority is right and should get what it wants!

But when the vast majority opposes your position, as in how the vast majority wants the borders closed and illegals sent home, why suddenly that’s different! They’re wrong! They don’t understand!

Why do you want our troops to die in unnecessary wars of choice? “

Are you trying to be funny or something?

Who is it that is constantly trying to undermine the troops, not only their morale, but directly by attacking them:

“In Cold Blood” Murtha
“Abu Ghraib” Kennedy
“Terrorizing women and children in the middle of the night” Kerry
“like Nazis and Soviet Gulags” Durbin

Guess what? None of the above are Conservatives, Republicans, or Neocons.

Needless death and maiming? The core of the war on terror is in Iraq, right now. Our troops are fighting against the enemy right there, right now, and are kicking their asses (as Zarqawi even knew). Where should we fight them? On the streets of America?

The rest of the war on terror is everywhere, including in America. It consists of finding these cells, these infiltrators, and finding them before they kill innocent Americans. But you and your brethren don’t want us to be able to do that either. You don’t want incoming calls from foreign terrorists tapped, you don’t want bank records monitored to detect transfers of cash to terrorists cells, you don’t want phone records data mined, you just don’t want our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to be able to do their job.

You have not proposed one effective way to fight the war on terror, you just knee-jerk oppose EVERY thing the Bush Admin does. And by war of choice, who started this? Who declared war on us? Who attacked on 9/11? Who bombed the Cole? etc. etc. etc. Wake up and smell the feces! War was declared on us!

The way of the Left is the way of suicide for a nation.