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Posted on 05/17/2016 4:45:03 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
Now that Hillary said, if elected (ugh), she would appoint her husband Bill in "charge of revitalizing the economy, because you know he knows how to do it," one has to ask if Bill did indeed create a booming economy when he wasn't chasing interns. Seems to me the Republican Contract With America was enacted during Clinton's tenure, welfare reform was passed after Clinton vetoed it, and the "dot-com" explosion sent the economy soaring. So, then, what exactly did Bill Clinton do to get the economy rolling so he continues to get media credit for his role?
He did what Newt told him to do.
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Actually it was the Republican congress that forced him to rein in his spending, which is why we had a surplus during the short period at the end of his term. With Bush, you had 9/11 which pretty much blew everything to hell moneywise.
no, he was handed a good economy from 12 years of republican rule, and almost screwed it up before Newt took over and righted the sinking ship, at which point Bill wised up and decided to chase women for the rest of his term instead of screwing with the economy.
People think Mr. Bill boosted the economy, and they him back via his proxy.
No. Clinton hurt the economy. He was simply ‘there’ during the dot.com revolution. Under his presidency, the stage was set for the banking failures and lending nightmare of 2008.
The only thing positive under his watch was Newt Gingrich’s ‘contract with America’ that Clinton was forced to accept.
Bah.
No. He coasted on the Dot com bubble. They would have never balanced the budget otherwise.
But he’s not stupid, so of course he claims it.
This. Anything good that Clinton did for the economy was shoved down his throat by the Gingrich Congress.
Fear of Newt and scandals forced Clinton to leave the economy alone. Thus, it did pretty well.
His housing policy seemed to hurt the economy.
Much like those attempting to identify hillary's "accomplishments", people who think that bill boosted the economy become quite silent when you ask them to specify just what he did to accomplish that.
Good post and exactly the way I saw it!
what exactly did Bill Clinton do to get the economy rolling so he continues to get media credit for his role?
Never mind that that whole thing eventually backfired, but Bill was out of there by then so no one counts that.
Of course, the American people are incapable of analyzing the spin the media gives them. They want Mrs. Bill to bring back Mr. Bill.
It’s interesting how the Clinton era Congress ‘dictated’ to Clinton (I’m NOT irrelevant!). Yet Obama dictated to Congress for eight years.
Bill with his so called ‘great economy’ still put us into recession by the time he left office. The economy he inherited was booming because of the polices of Reagan and even Bush.
Democrats are liars through and through. They’ve twisted the ‘facts’ to make a fairy tale out of Clinton’s presidency.
The Reagan tax reform initially put a big hit on all of the crazy tax shelter engineered projects designed to lose money, but once those problems were unwound, it really helped drive the economy
What’s the point of Hillary running to be the first vagina of the United States if she needs a man to do the real work? Kinda of contradicts her whole campaign theme doesn’t it?
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