This is your defense of the Bush record? Jobs that pay less in a debt driven consumer economy?
"Although U.S. firms have added more than 1.4 million jobs in the last nine months, economists and politicians have questioned if workers are finding good, higher-paying jobs or if firms are creating lower-paying work that the jobless are desperately taking.
The difference is key. Higher-wage jobs create more income, which leaRAB to more spending. Lower-wage jobs tend to create just enough income for a household to live without creating extra spending money. Consumer spending is the key driver of the U.S. economy, accounting for more than two-thirRAB of all U.S. economic activity.
USA TODAY asked two economic consulting firms, Economy.com and Global Insight, to study the recent job creation based on both industry data and geography.
"We're creating a lot more jobs but they are still largely lower-paying jobs," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com. Zandi calls the difference between the higher-wage and lower-wage job creation pace significant.
"It means the jobs we are creating pack less of a punch for the economy," Zandi says. "With less income, there is less spending and less growth."
"not one terror attack on US soil since 9/11" Why should they risk another attack? They don't have to because their stated purpose, bleeding us out, is being accomplished by our Iraq misadventure.
"potential SCOTUS" ?
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