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Notes from the DNC

(DNC)For hard-working, middle-class families all over the country, life during the Bush presidency has grown less affordable and less secure.

President Bush’s record of fiscal incompetence and mismanagement and Republicans’ close ties with special interests have helped lead to both lower wages and skyrocketing costs for basic necessities like gas, health care, and college tuition.

Unfortunately, instead of addressing the problems facing the middle class, Bush Republicans have either ignored them or enacted measures that have made matters even worse.

Gas prices have more than doubled in Idaho.
In Idaho, the price of regular gas has Jumped 108 percent from $1.45 the week President Bush took office in January 2001 to $3.47 in April 2008. This year, the average Idaho household with children will spend about $4,750 on transportation fuel costs, an increase of 107.59 percent over 2001 costs.