Do we want change, or appeasement?

Actually, I was impressed with how well they got up and running considering the nightmare situation the Bush Sr. Administration dumped on them.

Eerie how history repeats itself.

 

We're not.

Not even close.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-quality-of-life-map.html

As you can see, those horrible "Socialist" countries with free health care for all citizens are much wealthier, and have a much higher standard of living than us.

Who'd have thunk?

The [recent] onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market"... Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households... The rise in GDP in 2004 and 2005 was undergirded by substantial gains in labor productivity... Long-term problems include inadequate investment in economic infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, sizable trade and budget deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups. -CIA factbook on the US economy, 2005.

The United States has one of the widest rich-poor gaps of any high-income nation today, and that gap continues to grow.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/82

In recent times, some prominent economists including Alan Greenspan have warned that the widening rich-poor gap in the U.S. population is a problem that could undermine and destabilize the country's economy and standard of living.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0614/p01s03-usec.html

Image:SKYROCKET BAR GRAPH INEQUALITY.jpg Median Wages have been on the decline in the United States since 1974. In 2004, the median income for a man in his 30s was $35,010. Adjusted for inflation, that's 12 percent less than what men the same age were making in 1974.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/LifeStages/story?id=3213731

 

I know! I can't believe that Obama said, "Change" and really, we just elected George W Bush to a third term.

I feel hoodwinked and bamboozled.