Posted on 06/15/2004 2:56:15 PM PDT by Brilliant
In fact, if Kerry and his liberal buddies had not delayed and reduced the size of Bush's tax cuts, we might never have had a recession at all.
It also means that the VP choice is either Vilsak or Gephardt
We have to Judge the Bus economy on the last eyar because it took two years to get back the economy Clinton dropped into the toilet.
Neither will the interest rate hikes that Greenspan is gonna hit us with because Dubya's been spending like a drunken sailor.
Still waiting for some Republican leader to say:
"We don't know why John Kerry is running for President. He's already King of the Second-Guessers!"
If I were in poverty, living under a bridge, I'd still consider I was better off under Bush.
You see, our most recent Quarter's GDP growth was published as being 4.2%...but what most people don't know is that figure was inflation adjusted down.
The actual growth in the size of our economy was 7.9%.
What was published was the more conservative 4.2% inflation-adjusted figure.
But salaries, spending, business expansions, new manufacturing, home sales, et al were all contributing to a 7.9% growth in the size of our economy.
7.9%
Our economy is flat out BOOMING!
Can't wait to hear Kerry's concession speech in November.
Kerry is obviously the spawn of anti-war left-wing radicals who disrupted the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago.
They have absolutely nothing substantive or constructive to offer the nation.
Unfortunately, neocon "compassionate conservatism" is more akin to LBJ's Big Government "Great Society", simultaneously funding "The War on Poverty" along with "The War on Terror" without the slightest consideration as to who's gonna pay for it.
True conservatives are not represented by either Republicrat faction in this year's election.
And what does John F Kerry recommend? Not everyone can find a wealthy widow to sponge off of.
"True conservatives are not represented by either Republicrat faction in this year's election."
The Old Moby Troll is still at it. His job decrying GW has be as rewarding as the Maytag Repairman.
Neither are protectionist isolationists, huh? Sitting this one out? :o)
King of the Second-Guessers!
Here is a quote I read today that seems to fit JF'nK.
It was written by Sir Wilfred Lawson about Prime Minister
Balfour.Circa 1903.
"I'm not for Free Trade, and I'm not for Protection,
I approve of them both and to both have objection.
In going through life I continually find,
it's a terrible business to make up one's mind.
So in spite of all comments, reproach and predictions
I firmly adhere to unsettled convictions."
You're claiming they revised the figure downward by 46.8% (almost cutting it in half) as an adjustment for inflation?
That's one helluva inflation rate we're experiencing.
Either that, or you've gone back to ingesting hallucinogens again.
I thought that was pretty obvious and self-explanatory.
It's the same with investments. If I have a mutual fund that returned 7.9% last year, but inflation (cost of living) went up by 3.7%, then my REAL rate of return was only 4.2%. That's how much REAL growth in purchasing power I have.
I'm not sure why some (I think we know who) find that hard to comprehend.
So I was right, you ARE hallucinating.
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