October 14, 2003
Keeping My Balance
Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry insists that everything works out for him “even steven?” He loses a $20 bill - he finds $20 in royalty checks and so on. Well, anyway, that’s what I thought about after reading back to back stories tonight.
The first was this article about the $83.9 million the Bush/Cheney campaign has raised — a truly impressive, and daunting, figure. (That’s just under one tenth of one percent of the $87 billion he wants to spend to rebuild Iraq. But I digress.)
The second was this article about the possible revolt of the so-called Reagan Democrats. It gives a nice historical perspective — not to mention an interesting view of the upcoming presidential race.
So they balance each other out in a way, don’t you think? They did for me at least.
Posted by 9thwave at October 14, 2003 10:41 PMThe third article referenced reminded me how so many disregard Dennis Kucinich (mentioned in the article) as a viable candidate. Whether or not he is a viable candidate for the office, he is going to have a sizeable portion of votes to swing behind the Democratic candidate from both the Democratic Party and the Green Party.
I agree with the author’s contention that the loss of manufacturing jobs is largely due to forces beyond the administration’s control. However, I fail to see the administration doing anything to compensate for the loss of those jobs. Where are the proposals to retrain those unemployed, to gear adult education programs toward those unemployed, and to support high school vocational training in the service, data, communications, and information management sectors which can offer a future to H.S. graduates who will not be going on to college? Such do not seem to be coming from the White House.
Posted by: David R. Remer at October 15, 2003 02:06 AM
