Here is a small sampling of the letters I received. If you wish to contact me, you can do so by using the feedback form.
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In reading your comments regarding the economy and unemployment under President Bush. My perception, is that the economy is not doing well. Part of the reason that production has gone down, is due to the number of jobs that have gone overseas. There is a backlash developing against products from other countries, as more American's lose their jobs to someone overseas. However, it has become very difficult to find some items that are manufactured in the US at all any longer.
The unemployment figures are also misleading, since I understand that they only reflect the people that are collecting unemployment. I was laid off last March, with my entire department. Approximately 3/4s of us have found jobs, those that haven't, will be losing their unemployment in another couple of weeks. After working for the same company 8 years, it is very difficult to find another job paying anywhere close to what I was making, and more companies are not offering benefits, a good indicator that unemployment is high enough, that they don't have to offer benefits to get employees.
My brother is in the Computer industry, and he knows of people that were laid off in 2000 and are still having a problem finding a job that pays half of what they were making in 2000.
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It seems to me you have taken a selective bit of information to make a broad assumption to try to slant the new against President Bush, as the liberal media does. There are many other indicators that says the economy is doing better and recovering from the 9/11 disaster than you have elected to point out. If you want to do a better job do a much better in depth analysis, and point out the negative factors of a declining economy and the 9/ll event that was not made by President Bush, but to a great extent by lack of action by his predecesor. Also, might point out the good years of the Clinton administration were fueled by actions taken in the first Bush Sr's administration, and not by President Clinton's administration as he and the shallow thinking media would have us believe.
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