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To: waterstraat
payrolls unexpectedly fell by 101,000 in December and the unemployment rate stayed at 6 percent, capping the worst two years for job creation since the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s."

If Eisenhower and the republicans did not have so many out of work americans in the late 1950's, we could have avoided the Kennedy-Johnson-Vietnam-1968-gun-control-rioting periods of the 1960's.

The recession of 1974-75 gave us the Carter years.

"It is the economy, stupid" made Bush senior a one term president and gave us the clinton years.

36 posted on 01/11/2003 6:16:37 AM PST by waterstraat
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#36 - Excellent points. A bad economy can change everything to the left, adn for decades to come.
54 posted on 01/11/2003 9:13:48 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican (Arm Up! They Have!)
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