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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Hmmm. Let's see. In the eight years Bill Clinton and Al Gore were running the country, unemployment dropped from 7.1 percent to 4; the poverty rate dropped to 12.7 percent from the 15.1 percent it was under Bush Sr.; the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 3,242 to 11,000; the median family income rose from $33,839 to 38,885 (adjusted for inflation); the defecit went from $290 billion to a projected surplus of $211 billion (kiss that good-bye now that the Bushies are in charge); the national debt was $1 trillion accumulated by Presidents Washington through Carter, then climbed to $4 trillion under Reagan and Bush, and now is on it's way out in 12 years (well, was, again, kiss that goodbye b/c of the Bushies -- hell, the man couldn't even keep Texas' surplus -- I'd never let the man balance my checkbook); 22 million new jobs were created with Bill Clinton and Al Gore running the country. Home ownership rates are at an all-time high. Minority unemployment rates are at an all-time low. If this is a meddling, unefficient government which only dissapoints, then the reason it does so is because it clearly shows that the country is better off with Democrats in office. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Now for my Bush rant. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] [QUOTE]Now you, as a mere citizen, might look at the economic performance and think: Maybe we're heading in the right direction. Oh, but you dear reader, are not possessed of the uncanny intellect and keen insight of George W. Bush. He can see behind the facade of the numbers and conclude that we should reverse our course. He calls for "Prosperity with a Purpose." But what's his purpose, you ask? To make the rich even richer, and keep the rest of us in our place. George W. Bush's economic plan is a return to the trickle-down days of the 1980s. He wants to cut taxes for the rich, gut the social safety net, turn more and more power over to giant corporations, and limit the rights of working people. W is so 1980s, he even had KC and the Sunshine Band play at his Washington fund raiser. You half expect him with his hair slicked back a-la Gordon Gekko bellowing, "Greed is good!" You're reading this and you're thinking: Didn't we try this before? And didn't all that trickle down result in a few rich folks and corporations getting the gold mine while the rest of us get the shaft? Didn't those Reagan-Bush economic policies run up the debt, cripple our competitiveness, and drive us into a recession? But here again, you lack the raw (if unappreciated) genius of George W. Bush. He's thinking, Maybe if we try it again it'll work the second time. Kind of like someone in a lifeboat from the [i]Titanic[/i] saying, "Gee, I hope we hit another iceburg." My friend and former boss, Bill Clinton, likes to say that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." But I'll give this to Bush: he's hell-bent on giving Trickle Down II (or, as Poppy might call it, "Voodoo Re-Do") a try. -Paul Begala, [i]Is Our Children Learning?[/i][/QUOTE] Hey, I figure since First can't back up his liberal bashing, we might as well make this a Dubya bashing thread ... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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