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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]We had a recession for a long time before George sr. was in office, so obviously the trickle-down plan didn't quite work. [/i] No, we didn't. We had a recession in the seventies and early eighties. Then it was ended by the Reagan tax cuts. We had the best economy in history, until taxes were increased again, and we had a brief recession. Then things shaped up again, and we had the fast growth back. But after a decade of neglect, things are slowing down again. [i]I could just repeat the tired line offered by you Conservatives during our debates on Gore v. Bush. Whenever the Clinton/Gore economy was brought up, you screamed and yelled and went blue in the face, and said, "the President has nothing to do with the economy! It's the Federal Reserve Board!" [/i] Ah, but we had reason to say that. See, Clinton didn't DO anything to stimulate the economy. He didn't do anything, PERIOD. Reagan, OTOH, DID help stimulate the economy, with massive tax cuts. You honestly think that interest rates are going to change a massive recession into a massive growth? Then you need to study the economy. [i]You want to give Reagan credit for the 80's recession? Be my guest, but that means you give Clinton/Gore credit for the economy in the late 90's.[/i] Non sequitor. Why? One is responsible or not responsible for something because of what they DID, not because of where they happened to be when it happened. [i]The small roots? No, the poor roots. You know, the ones fucked over by inadequate minimum wage, the ones who can't afford health care without assistance and wouldn't even recieve health care if you had your way ... the ones for whose schools you'd like to take away money from. You know, the same people the Republican party has a long history of trampling over. [/i] Well, if that wasn't irrational, not to mention irrelevant... [i]I never said the economy was that good under Carter, but it got worse under Reagan before it got better. [/i] Yes, because A) it took time for him to do something, and B) it takes time for something done to take effect. You seem to like pinning EVERYTHING on the President, whether he was responsible or not. You judge responsibility by what someone DID. Or rather, we rational people do. You, OTOH, probably blame Bush for the slow economy that we have now, even though it started eighteen months back, and what Bush has done hasn't had time to take effect. Bush is the President, after all. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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