[Leisler]

Here in eastern Massachusetts the unemployment rate is zero, where it's been for years. Jobs go begging. We could of put a 1,000 to work in a day. However, housing cost are brutally high due to decades of small town, county and state socialist/environmental planning. Matter of fact, some planning has been planed three or four times.

[RaceBannon]

You're saying Boston is hiring??

[FITZ]

Here in the west part of Texas, we could have used far more than 1000 jobs just in one town alone, considering NAFTA put about 14,000 garment workers out of jobs and nothing else has come along for many of them.

It depends on where you live I guess --- some places are doing very very well I'm sure but some places are really hurting. There are only 33% of the population covered by private health insurance here --- this slow growth in jobs isn't going to help that.

[FITZ]

Jobs go begging.

Maybe Bush needs to consider some kind of incentive or something to get the unemployed and welfare types who can't find jobs distributed better --- maybe get busloads of people going up to Massachusetts from areas of very high unemployment. Along the border more people keep coming in but the jobs aren't here --- if millions of low-skilled workers are needed, they have to get them to the places where they are needed --- not just barely inside the country where poverty is piling up fast.

[harpseal]

Here in eastern Massachusetts the unemployment rate is zero, where it's been for years. Jobs go begging. We could of put a 1,000 to work in a day. However, housing cost are brutally high due to decades of small town, county and state socialist/environmental planning. Matter of fact, some planning has been planed three or four times.

Please try to peddle that to people who are from outside the area. We get the information on MA jobs here in CT.