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The Bush economy doing great? A quarter of a million new jobs last month? Everything coming up roses on the economy front?

Shit, first of all, I don't believe it. Bush's economists are proven liars, and besides, the administration changed the formula or model for determining growth. But let's say, for the sake of argument that I did believe the recent jobs numbers, one monthe does not an economy make. For one thing, there was no mention on the news about how many jobs were lost last month. Truth be told, it was probably a wash. Let's not forget that Bill Clinton's administration got credit for somewhere around forty straight months of 250,000 plus jobs created. We KNOW what his economy was like.

But I digress. My economy sucks. Lately I have found myself out of work in a major city and unable to find a job.I will take anything at this point, but there is either nothing, or I am being passed over for work I have applied for. We have been evicted recently from our apartment, because I can barely make the car payment, let alone rent. Our family has had to split up. My high school aged son is now living with my brother, in order to remain in his school district, (he goes to a phenomenal H.S., and only has two months to graduation) and my wife and I are living with another of my brothers, in order to keep the family pet. My wife works as a housekeeper, making $3.16 per room at a hotel fifteen miles away, and I spend my days looking for jobs. I appreciate my family taking us in, although it is really tough, for one reason, because the brother whom my wife and I live with now is a fiercely loyal follower of Bush and Cheney. We had to promise to not even discuss politics, while we are staying with him. It's hard, but I am learning to adapt.

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