An understated number given that many have left the workforce or taken a permanent downgrade in job status.
Annual inflation rate: 4.3%
You can have that inflation rate. Any more than 2% is a serious problem.
Deficit as percent of GNP: 2.7%
It's not terrible, but you should be using GDP and not include the account surplus of Social Security.
If things were as good as your post asserts, Bush would have had a landslide and Congress would be Republican. He didn't and it isn't.
The Dems are all talk and zero action save for hate and diatribe. They have no agenda and will do nothing to advance our prosperity.
The fools who thought they were performing a referendum on our administration are in for a terrible disappointment. The Dems will get all of the blame for the worsening outcomes to come and will be thrown out in '08.
Well, lets add the National Debt while we are at it. At some point I would like it to reverse.
Chalk it up to the power of the enemedia who endlessly drummed discontent into the heads of the sheeple, the George Soros organizations who financed negative advertising and the stupidy of certain Republicans who were content to endlessly reach out with crap like "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" rather than stand on and articulate principles in the style of Ronald Reagan.
Imperfect or not, those numbers need to be posted to judge the next congress by.
Right and if Bill Clinton had these numbers they would be counting Social security surpluses as they did to .The only difference the media would have been wetting their pants and proclaiming the greatest economy in history 24 hours a day instead of the BS you are spouting