Washington Post - April 27, 2006
Going a Short Way to Make a Point By Dana Milbank
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it's time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.
"Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!" charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. "They are too cozy with the oil industry."
She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) -- even though her Senate office was only a block away....
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The inflation-adjusted median weekly earnings of wage and salary workers fell 1.2 percent in the first quarter of 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Daily Labor Report, page D-12). Median weekly earnings for the country's 103.5 million full-time workers fell to $324 in first-quarter 2006 when adjusted for inflation against BLS's benchmark year of 1982, down $328 during the same 3-month period in 2005.
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Meanwhile, my bro reports that some workers in Tejas are pawning stuff in order to buy gasoline to commute to their jobs.
Prosperity is just around the corner,
Mike B)
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