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

[glowbelly]

no, ronnie. the tax cut didn't help at all. I USED IT TO PAY BILLS AND THEN I HAD TO CUT ALL OF MY SPENDING BACK SO I COULD LIVE SEMI-COMFORTABLY. i'm not going to say that it wasn't nice to get extra money back for spending money on my education, but i still had to dish out $3000 for school, while getting $500 of it back.

and what i mean by semi-comfortably is that i am living in a horrible neighborhood in a city where police are scarce and drug dealers live in every other house, eating peanut butter sandwiches, putting $5 in my gas tank when i really, really need it and scraping up change to buy cigarettes (something i know is superflous and terrible for me, but hey, i'm addicted).

i'm not worried, though...actually, i'm quite happy. i'm just trying to show you that it's not so easy for everybody out there and the midwest states that have previously relied on industrial and manufacturing jobs are suffering in a big way.