Read The Next Post First, Then Come Back to This One!

For all of you that agree with the last post, seem to think that Clinton was better at this President thing than Bush and that things were so much better when he was in office, hey here's some facts for you to ignore and blindly believe that he was better......

March 1997 (Clinton 2nd Term)
5.2 = overall unemployment rate
4.5 = for whites
10.7 = for blacks
8.6 = for latinos

March 2005
5.2 = overall unemployment rate
4.4 = for whites
10.3 = for blacks
5.7 = for latinos

(Hat-tip: OPINIPUNDIT)

Just thought that you should know.

UPDATE: Having been called out for only providing a small portion of the picture with the employment figures, here's more....

Median Salary of all Academic Positions: $90,000.00/year in February 2001 (last year tabulated) FACT. Wonder why college costs so much?

Poverty: The number of people below the official poverty thresholds numbered 35.9 million in 2003, or 1.3 million more than in 2002, for a 2003 poverty rate of 12.5 percent. Although up from 2002, this rate is below the average of the 1980s and 1990s. FACT.

Seven states — Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia — showed increases in their poverty rates based on two-year moving averages (2001-2002 and 2002-2003), while two states — Mississippi and North Dakota — showed decreases. All others remained unchanged for 2002-2003.

While the debate can rage on and on about the ever increasing costs of health care, I personally believe that we have created a litigious society that loves medical malpractice. Hence, the fact that there are currently only two OB-GYN doctors on the Mississippi coast and only one in Northwest Mississippi. I'm guessing them folks ain't quit having babies.

Housing costs for lower income people is actually falling and has dipped below the rate of 1998 all the way back in 2002. FACT. This shows that the cost of housing has risen against the Consumer Price Index, but also shows that the percentage of portion of income has fallen.

Anyway, to put further spin to this housing costs thing, just think about the facts of the matter. Labor costs ARE higher, material costs increase because labor costs are higher AND the restrictions placed on harvesting natural goods.

Anyway, to answer the questions posed to me, I am incensed because all the topics are Liberal SCARE TACTICS (the way the questions were posed)that have been proven again and again to be detrimental to poor people, by none other than me.

UPDATE #2: This just in: In the State of Mississippi, education expenditure has risen just a bit since 1993. In 1993, the state spent just over 2.3 billion, yes with a "B". In 2003, the state spent 4.8 billion. Quite a bit of increase. Needed? Hell no. In 2003, the state spent an increased 131% over 1993 numbers in welfare and human services. Needed? Hell no.

As far as the rising costs of higher education is concerned, since there has been a 57% increase in the last 12 years, I am going to wager a guess, that idiotic things such as diversity colleges, increased costs of paying for every stupid little group that FEELS they are entitled to financing by the taxpayers. (READ THE SPECIALTY DEGREES THAT MEAN NOTHING, SORRY FOLKS. WOMEN AND MINORITY STUDIES ARE NOT DEGREES, THEY ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. JUST AS IS ENGLISH, POETRY, HISTORY, AND LITERATURE.) To think that you shall attend a university, take out student loans and receive a degree in Women's Studies is quite frankly a stupid idea. However it is a feel good thing so we have to build a stupid taxpayer funded building to house a ridiculous college.

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