(1) cap-and-trade, causing energy prices to "skyrocket" (2) card check, pushing workers into unions (3) amnesty for illegal aliens, causing an unending flow of less-educated people to the U.S.
could cause the economy to never recover, making the deficit even worse than they predict.
I liked the article, but the digs at the Bush administration are irrelevant.
“They borrowed it from George W. Bush, who turned to it as soon as his inherited budget surpluses withered with the tax cuts and recession of 2001-02.”
Not so fast. The Clinton budget surplus withered as a result of the Clinton stock market burst (April 2000) of the Clinton tech bubble (1998 to 2000). This was followed by the the Clinton recession (two consecutive quarters of of declining GDP starting in year 2000), which was officially declared when the numbers came in 40 days after Bush took office in 2001. The economy didn’t turn around until AFTER the Bush tax cuts took effect in year 2003. Tax revenues actually increased after the Bush tax cuts, because due to the economic turn - around, the government had more wages and business profits to tax. All this in spite of 9-11 and the Iraq war.
Too bad that after a moment of honesty, MSM reporters are required to perform penance by throwing in a gratuitous declaration of political correctness. Otherwise a good article.
I think butt head broder was writing of what has happened, and not speculating, and when you have a—hole’s like fred barns pushing number three who knows what will happen. It can only go down hill from here.
He started this piece out trashing Bush - hoping and praying that his "trash Bush" will get a pass for daring to speak poorly of King Obama.
Can anyone recall ONCE when Broder trashed a dem in the first sentence so he could cushion criticism against a Republican?
Broder does a MSM suck-up in the first sentence - but other than that there’s some interesting stuff.
I thought Broder shuffled off this mortal coil years ago...