Of course, those of us that have taken an 80% pay cut and feel lucky just to have a job aren't exactly flush with disposable income to invest. This is especially frue for those of us who have borne the brunt of the cuts the State of Texas made and are actually taking home less than we did last year. You can make all the statements you want from your ivory towers, but the sad reality is that regular people are not feeling the "recovery," and all the independents I know are shaking their heads in disgust at having let Bush execute his coup. I am not a liberal, but the economy does trouble me, as do many things with this administration. Fortunately, November 2004 is just around the corner.
80%. Ouch. You were either making major coin, or you're now collecting cans at the side of the highway.
Exactly what "cuts" were made that are causing you to take home 80% less than you used to? I'm not being sarcastic.
Well, if the results of the next election are like the last one, I like our chances. 18 million lagging indicators could decide an election, especially a close one.
I don't know about 80%, but if you work for the state, assuming you didn't get laid off (which could explain the 80%), your benefits just got hammered. And if you are a family taking care of troubled children as foster parents, if you are elderly in a nursing home, children on the CHIPS program (not Lays, either... the Children's Health Insurance Program for children in low income families)... and a host of other things the state slashed to balance the budget without raising so much as the cigarette tax, which the Republican Comptroller was for, then you are hurting. I can't wait to vote against Bush. The election can't come soon enough.
I made a lot of money as a trainer, I used to teach network operating systems like Windows NT, Windows 2000, LINUX, and UNIX. My specialty was TCP/IP, which I know like nobody's business. 2000 was my best year and right now I make 80% less (on an hourly basis).
Sorry, I have taken an 80% pay cut since my pay in 2000. The cuts the state of Texas did have not reduced my pay 80%, but I am taking home less money this year than I did last year because Perry cut funding for colleges (so I didn't get a raise) and cut funding for health insurance (so I pay more than I did last year). I don't mind not getting a raise that much, but increasing my insurance really hit us.
He created a recession after 2 months in office? I'm pretty disappointed in you Major. If you look at most of the indicators, they began to plummet long before Bush took office. You don't just go from a healthy economy to a recession overnight. Real GDP growth sank in Q3 2000.
