And scrounging to make ends meet. And a guy from Arkansas named Bill Clinton, whom most of us never heard of, was elected. A lot of those votes came from working-class people in places like Norwood, Red Hook and Elmhurst who were tired of signing their names on unemployment checks and praying that their kids wouldn't get sick at a time in their lives when they had no health coverage. Clinton was reelected. I know miss a day of work.
Crime is also down nationwide in double digits.
Many of the people who I met cashing unemployment checks nine years ago in Brooklyn, are now gainfully employed, new homeowners, bragging about their 401-K plans and playing the stock market. No More Jobs. Because, in places like the working-class neighborhoods of the outer boroughs, in this election, it's still the economy, stupid.