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Skriven 2004-11-07 15:44:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
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>LL>Bill Clinton won election with the economy coming out of a
>LL>recession.

JH>Clinton killed the Reagan growth spurt by passing a huge tax hike,
JH>which he later admitted was too high.

Clinton presided over the greatest expansion of the economy in American
history.  Over 22 million new jobs were created.  And that is nothing to
sneeze at.

>LL>Bill Clinton won re-election with a great economy.

JH>Due to the GOP gaining control of the Congress, and preventing Clinton
JH>from doing any serious harm.

Had Clinton managed to keep his pants zipped up, he would be remembered
as having been one of the greatest presidents of all time.  But
apparently not even Republicans could protect Clinton from himself.

>LL>Seems like Republican candidates need "gloom and doom"
>LL>in order to win.  Democrats prefer prosperity.

JH>Keep whistlin', Lee.  You're not quite past that graveyard.

Engraving tombstones seems to be an expanding field, with Bush's
"war on terror" bringing home more and more dead American soldiers
from Iraq and other places.

>GL>Will gasoline be $4 per gallon by 2008 ????

>LL>The worse the economy gets, the more likely Republican candidates
>LL>are to win.  It makes no difference what the price of gasoline is.
>LL>If gasoline is $4 per gallon and the folks earn $20 per hour, the
>LL>cost of gasoline is very inexpensive.  If gasoline is .25 cents
>LL>per gallon and folks do not have jobs, the cost of gasoline is very
>LL>expensive.

JH>On the contrary, people repudiated Kerry and his BS about how bad the econom
JH>is.  Despite the high gas prices, we're still growing economically.  NO
JH>country, including this one, has ever taxed its way out of a recession.  You
JH>get out by LOWERING tax rates to spur incentive to spend by business.  That'
JH>what Reagan did, and that's what Bush did.

Underfunding the budget in order to give tax breaks to the privileged
elite is not the way to grow an economy.

>GL>The Dems have  NEVER  won the WH  without a bad economy  --
>GL>remember the election years of 1932; 1960; 1976; & 1992.

>LL>FDR won in 1932 only because the Republicans split their vote.
>LL>In all other cases, the economy was fair to good.  Never bad.

JH>You are simply wrong.

Look it up.

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