Seems Kerry is talking about how the new jobs pay an average of $9,000 less annually than the jobs lost, while folks are seeing their money disappearing faster as they pay 50% increases in healthcare, 35% jumps in college tuitions and other increased expenses.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-campaign16jun16.storyEconomy Praised on Both Sides of Campaign Trail
Bush and Kerry call themselves optimists on the recovery, but for quite different reasons.
By Michael Finnegan and James Rainey
Times Staff Writers
June 16, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With the death of former President Reagan and a week of public commemorations still fresh in the public consciousness, both President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry laid claim Tuesday to a Reaganesque mantle of optimism about the U.S. economy.<snip>
Bush, speaking at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, said he was an optimist because he saw his policies — in particular, income tax cuts — already making things better. Kerry, however, told reporters at an airport outside Cincinnati that he was "an optimist about America" because "I think we can do better."<snip>
"There is a trap for Kerry in that he doesn't want to be pegged as pessimistic and negative," Axelrod said. "But there is a trap for Bush in that he doesn't want to look oblivious to people's real pain."<snip>
When asked about Bush's comments, Kerry said changes were needed to improve the standard of living for middle-class Americans. He repeated his call to rescind Bush's tax cut for families making more than $200,000 a year.
The money recouped by the federal government, the senator said, would help provide more funding for healthcare, education and other programs (Head Start, veterans' healthcare and police and fire departments).<snip>
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