[concerned about politics]

They say they are anxious to associate themselves and their party with what they and much of the press consider his greatest achievement: the roaring economic growth of the 1990s.

They're switching parties? They're honoring Reagan? They're becomming Republicans?

[oceanview]

people with 401Ks are being offshored by the 1000s, and it isn't much solace to see your 401K go up $10K when you are out of work.

[concerned about politics]

As the 2004 election approaches, all the major Democratic presidential candidates are claiming to be able to reproduce the so-called Clinton economy,

BWAAAHAHAHA. Good luck. Without the Bush tax cut, the losers are going to go bankrupt if they win!
"It takes a a Republican to raise a country".

[concerned about politics]

The problem for Democrats in all of this is that an increasing number of business economists and finance analysts see something very different. They argue that Bush inherited a recession caused in many respects by the leftward drift of Clinton policies during the last two years of his administration and that because of Bush's change in direction economic statistics already were pointing upward when the United States was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Indeed, they say that Bush's further actions laid the base for another boom.

CHAW! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

The recession's over. My company just told us they are hiring again (after a hiatus of over 18 months). Things are looking up generally in the business world.

[mattdono]

I have a formatted HTML file that can be used for distribution via email. FReep mail me an email address to send it to.

This story needs to be read by as many people as possible.

[concerned about politics]

Dashole is deeply saddened. :-{

[The Wizard]

what this article say is

The media is a democat lie machine

[Jumper]

Very sound economic profile. This guy has pulled together all the facts and aspects of the past 20 years to actually show how government, good and bad, affects the economy.

[Old Sarge]

Very good article.

It's a pity no one will ever read it, in great numbers, anyway...

[Mudboy Slim]

"In 2000, the stock market was down, housing was slowing, manufacturing was slowing, we had declining industrial production, job growth was slowing and you could clearly tell that we were going into a slower-growth period. And yet the media missed it,"

Willful ignorance...MUD

[wayoverontheright]

So I think what Democrats have to do is not just point to the current problems, of which there certainly are many, but point to why it is that the Bush approach is wrong and articulate some other more positive, future-looking vision of economic growth.

They are articulating it, they are saying that tax INCREASES will improve the economy.

If that isn't VOODOO ECONOMICS, what is?

[wayoverontheright]

Bowyer cites another Clinton policy that Bush reversed as helping to set the economy back on track - the highly publicized hounding of Microsoft for alleged antitrust violations as well as the increased blocking of mergers late in Clinton's presidency.

This is a BIG point.

The attack on Microsoft adversely affected all business, not just the tech sector, because it was concrete evidence that government had declared war on profit.

[witnesstothefall]

roaring economic growth of the 1990s

The Clinton boom was largely illusory, built on false valuations being bid up ever higher by go-go hipsters of mostly Democratic stripes. And it blew up in all of our faces. The chips of the meltdown are still falling to this day, and the Democrats want to return to that?!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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