Ah dabe, you try so hard, you sound like you have a point, but a little reading shows you for the bluthering idiot that you are. It's blame, blame, blame with you.

1. Higher Medicare: Has Bush increased Doctor's salaries? The salaraies of their nurses and staffs? Has Bush somehow gotten into bed with the malpractive lawyers and asked them to come up with more lawsuits to further raise the cost of malpractice insurance? No. In fact Bush fights all of the above.

2. Property taxes, at least where I come from are a local tax (I've never heard of a federal proerty tax) and it is for paying for schools.

3. Federal employees paying a higher percentage of their insurance premiums. This where you really blow me away. If you read your own link you would see that the government pays for 72% of federal employee premiums. Why are premiums increasing in the first place? See # 1. I work for an employer that provides 50% of the cost of premiums for employees and absolutely nothing for their families. That's called life. Many employers offer no insurance assistance at all to their employees. It's called a benfit, not an obligation. Federal employees should be glad they get the outstanding benefit package they already enjoy. Paying a bit more for it is nothing to cry about.

4. College tuition hikes? I'm afraid to ask, but what does the most liberal of all institutions raising their rates have to do with George Bush. Last I checked, universities are not Federal institutions. They are independent or state run and for the most part, liberal as hell.

While you make very good points about the ever increasing cost of living, your blame is simply misguided.