Text 4744, 70 rader
Skriven 2004-11-09 07:47:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av LEE LOFASO
Ärende: Election
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-=> Quoting Lee Lofaso to Frank Scheidt <=-

 >LL>Harry S Truman won election with a recovering economy.
 
 >JH>The economy wasn't recovering, it was changing back to a peace time
 >JH>economy, and you couldn't have stopped it with an atom bomb.
 
 >LL>A recession always follows a war.  In Truman's case, a recession
 >LL>followed the end of WWII.
 
 FS>Totally false!  Sewell Avery, the president of Montgomery Wards
 FS>predicted a return to the Great Depression.  He refused to expand
 FS>the number of stores, keeping cash instead.  Sears, their rival,
 FS>OTOH predicted prosperity and expanded widely.  Sears beat Wards
 FS>badly because of that and Sewell Avery was kicked out of Monkey
 FS>Wards.

 LL> All thanks to Truman, who set things straight.  After all, Truman
 LL> had once been a businessman himself.  Not a very good one.  But a
 LL> businessman nonetheless.

Harry once sold suits for a living -- unfortunately he didn't 
sell *enough* of them ... [sigh] ... great U.S. President, tho 
...
 
 >LL>Jimmy Carter won election with the economy coming out of a
 >LL>recession.
 
 >JH>Carter pushed things back off the cliff and ended up with the worst
 >JH>recession in US history other than the Depression.  Remember his
 >JH>"malaise" speech?
 
 >LL>During the Carter years, people had jobs.  During the Reagan years,
 >LL>people lost jobs.  Sure, there was runaway inflation during the Carter
 >LL>years.  But people had jobs.  Sure, inflation was brought under
 >LL>control during the Reagan years.  But people lost jobs.  And without
 >LL>jobs, people suffer.
 
 FS>Beginning with the Reagan tax-cuts of 1982 we had 18 years of
 FS>uninterrupted prosperity, interrupted with a very brief recession
 FS>during the middle of the George H.W. Bush presidency after which
 FS>the Reagan prosperity resumed until Clinton *finally* managed
 FS>to bring it crashing down in 2000 ...

 LL> The JFK tax cuts brought prosperity for Americans everywhere.

True ...

 LL> The Reagan tax cuts brought economic ruin for many Americans.

False ...

 LL> The Clinton tax cuts brought prosperity for Americans everywhere.

Huh?  *What* "Clinton" tax cuts???  Oh, I recall, that's in your 
Parallel Universe ... OK ... in *our* universe Clinton *raised* 
taxes ... he is noted mainly though for ... for ... uh ... well 
you don't wanna know *that*!  BTW, in your Parallel Universe is 
there a broad named "Monica"??

 LL> The Bush43 tax cuts brought economic ruin for all but the wealthy.

If by "wealthy" you mean 98.35% of the American public, you're 
right.

... Dammit, Jim.  Spock's a *Klingon*, don't you see that!!

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