| Re: Hanoi Juan McCain Websites [message #794279] |
Thu, 14 February 2008 22:51 |
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On Feb 14, 4:14=A0pm, "HeyBub" <hey... [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Myers wrote:
> > "HeyBub" <hey... [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:13r95ricjot411d [at] corp.supernews.com...
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> >> Don't know about "less jobs" business - first I've heard of it.
> >> Under the Bush administration we had a record-breaking 24 quarters
> >> of sustained economic growth. It took the Democratic Congress less
> >> than a year to fuck it up.
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> > So how is it, exactly, that you think the Administration gets to
> > claim sole credit for every quarter of growth since Inauguration
> > Day 2001, but Congress takes the blame for anything going
> > bad right after coming into power? =A0Are you under the impression
> > that both of these branches take turns at a big lever marked
> > "ECONOMY," and that any movement of that lever has an
> > immediate effect?
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> Under Clinton, the economy took off when the GOP gained control of Congres=
s
> in 1992.
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> The Bush administration that proposed three tax cuts and the Republican
> congress that passed them into law. We had 9-11 and the economy kept
> chuggin' along. Then there was Katrina, a multi-billion dollar hit. And th=
e
> economy kept chuggin' along.
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> What's changed, in the last year, was control of Congress, and now the
> economy's heaving and gasping. Maybe conincidence, maybe not.
I think far more likely is that it's the chickens hatched in the
preceding years that are finally coming home to roost.
nate
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| Re: Hanoi Juan McCain Websites [message #794285 ] |
Thu, 14 February 2008 23:18 |
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:51:32 -0800 (PST), N8N <njnagel [at] hotmail.com>
wrote:
>> The Bush administration that proposed three tax cuts and the Republican
>> congress that passed them into law. We had 9-11 and the economy kept
>> chuggin' along. Then there was Katrina, a multi-billion dollar hit. And the
>> economy kept chuggin' along.
>>
>> What's changed, in the last year, was control of Congress, and now the
>> economy's heaving and gasping. Maybe conincidence, maybe not.
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>I think far more likely is that it's the chickens hatched in the
>preceding years that are finally coming home to roost.
Nah. Chicken breeding isn't enough to effect a 20 TRILLION dollar
economy. But mandating ethanol that will INCREASE pollution, INCREASE
the amount of land used for farming and RAISE the price of food did.
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