Ask a general (or a doctor)

摘要

More than 3m jobs lost since 2000, in-eluding one in every seven manufacturing jobs. A federal budget that has moved from a surplus of 2.4% of GDP in 2000 to a deficit of 3.5% of GDP and rising. Health-care premiums soaring by 14% a year, and the number of Americans without health insurance rising at the fastest pace in a decade. These are the grim statistics that form the backdrop to the 2004 presidential campaign, terrifying Team Bush and persuading the large cast of Democratic hopefuls that the White House could be within their reach.