Falling Behind

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

That single line put Reagan in the White House and ousted Jimmy Carter in 1980. Despite four years of relative prosperity in GDP terms, the median worker is making less each year once inflation takes its toll.

If Bush wonders how his poll numbers can be so low in when GDP looks so promising, he should start worrying about the average voter--not the one's in the nation's top 1% who are receiving all his tax kickbacks.

It's not the economy, stupid. People outside Washington don't care about GDP. They care about their family's individual budget, and most people are falling behind.


Wages falling behind inflation