1 posted on
04/14/2007 9:50:19 PM PDT by
Checkers
To: Checkers
The economy works in natural cycles of growth and contraction. During the presidential election of 04 my biggest fear was that if Lurch got elected he would take credit for the growth spawned by the tax cuts 3 years before.
Unfortunately, most Americans don’t understand the economy. To them a recession is when your neighbor is out of work and a depression is when they are out of work. Can’t say I blame them...all politics are local.
Hillary’s Communism has already been tried in North Korea, Cuba, USSR and NY...and it failed every time. Communism sounds good in theory when you read Marx and Engels. It just doesn’t work.
2 posted on
04/14/2007 9:57:32 PM PDT by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Checkers
Clinton had the Dunkin Donut economy...if was light, fluffy and had a hole in the middle.
3 posted on
04/14/2007 10:12:18 PM PDT by
stylin19a
(If you are living on the edge...MOVE OVER ! Some of us are ready to jump !)
To: Checkers
If one bothers to remember, Clinton deserves none of the credit for the economy during his presidency. The Republican congress kept him and Hildebeast from screwing up what he inherited from Reagan/Bush. GWB on the other hand turned things around after 911 with his tax cuts. Of course, he does not get credit for that.
To: Checkers
My personal wealth quadrupled during the Bush years. It’s hard to argue with that.
To: Checkers
This is a very interesting read. Thanks for posting it!
6 posted on
04/14/2007 10:40:26 PM PDT by
Norman Bates
(Happy Easter!)
Federal Budget Deficit as % of GDP:
1970s 2.1%
1980s 3.0%
1990s 2.2%
2006 1.9%
Federal Revenue as % of GDP:
1962 18.2%
2006 18.4%
Top Federal Tax Rate
1965 70%
1975 70%
1985 31%
1995 40%
2005 35%
Home Ownership Percentage
1965 63%
1975 68%
1985 64%
1995 65%
2005 69%
7 posted on
04/14/2007 10:41:15 PM PDT by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Checkers
>were a centrally planned dictatorship.
LOL! The United States is both a judicial and partisan dictatorship. Who is kidding who?
8 posted on
04/14/2007 10:44:40 PM PDT by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: Checkers
The Clinton economy had nothing to do with Clinton. It was the surge at the end of the cold war, and later the whole WWW Dot.com boom.
11 posted on
04/14/2007 10:58:59 PM PDT by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: Checkers
![](http://www.hawaiiangecko.com/drinkincoffee.gif)
The dot com boom of the late '90s was the largest redistribution of wealth this country has ever seen. Hundreds of billions of investor dollars flowed into tons of SomethingStupid.Com startup companies, who in turn hired every fry cook that headhunters could get their hands on, renamed them Web Designers, doubled their salaries and put them to work in companies that were not producing any products. Just hype.
So the 22 million jobs that Clinton created were really just 22 million Mexicans coming across the border filling the French fry cooking jobs. And they lost those jobs when the Web Designers lost theirs and returned as "experienced fry cooks."
The upshot of all of this was a massive fleecing of people with money and redistributing it to burger flippers. And we are supposed to be impressed with this?
13 posted on
04/15/2007 12:34:33 AM PDT by
HawaiianGecko
(Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think...)
To: Checkers
Yea, I remember Etoys, Drugstore.com, enron, global crossing, etc.
15 posted on
04/15/2007 1:57:50 AM PDT by
anton
To: Checkers
VOTE FOR HILLERY: just like the impeached serial rapist, she is going to be giving free blow jobs in the white house.For a campaign contribution of course.
17 posted on
04/15/2007 4:56:29 AM PDT by
G-Man 1
To: aflaak
18 posted on
04/15/2007 8:53:51 AM PDT by
r-q-tek86
(Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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