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from the commercials page ( http://www.dolekemp96.org/news/commercials/commercials.html ), in reference to the bad Clinton economy that Dole would fix:

    Two incomes needed to make ends meet.
Not sure whether to laugh or to cry, thinking that just a while ago a politician called attention to this as though it were a fixable problem...were things really so different 16 years ago?


Yup.

Lots more blue-collar jobs with pensions. '96 was 'pre-China' for more sophisticated manufacturing.




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