He was being pressed to push for a tax increase, and like any politician was reluctant to do so. Someone pointed out that raising taxes would send a reassuring signal to Wall Street that the White House was serious about cutting the deficit, then a major concern. Underneath all this, of course, is a great deal of uncertainty about the future. Most people are doing okay, but not in the way their grandfathers did. The time when you could graduate from high school and get a job for life at the mill or the factory, well, those days are gone.
People move from job to job, often getting no benefits.
If you want to really get ahead, you need two incomes. This takes a toll on families, with results that often explode across our television screens on the evening news. Yes, times are better than they have ever been, but like everything else these days, the ice is very thin. All rights reserved. Simply insert your own values between the double-quotes.