THE ECONOMY IS STRONG AND THAT'S BAD NEWS FOR LIBERALS.

[mburbank]

Nalds, I've posed this question to a few folks on the board, it's your turn now.

Did you get a raise last year? if you did, did it give you more money than the cost of your health insurance, gasoline, heating oil or whatever you use to heat your house going up?

I'm not an economist, but that's the measure of my day to day life, and this is (despite the generous bush tax cut, which didn't pay even one heating bill for me) the third consecutive year that my raise is less than my increased costs. It is getting harder fo m to get by. In order to tread water, I have to cut back. That's the economic reality for me and most of the people I know. And I was lucky enough to be employed for most of the last three years. How have things been for you?