How Bush compares with Hoover on jobs

The Detroit News ^ | Sunday, February 22, 2004 | Thomas Bray

[quantim]

Barely a day goes by without someone in the Democratic Party or the media comparing the Bush record on jobs with that of Herbert Hoover.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This is brilliant. I'm book marking this for future use.

[Seruzawa]

Yawn. More demoncrap hyperbole. It only fires up the people who aren't going to vote for Bush no matter what and turns the moderates off. It's the moderates who decide elections, not the fanatics.

[11th Earl of Mar]

after Bill Clinton’s 1993 increase in the top income tax rate, inequality actually increased. The top five percent of income earners went from having 17.4 percent of all income in 1990, at the end of the Reagan decade, to 21.1 percent in 2000.

And which one again was the Decade of Greed?

[Beck_isright]

"And it suggests that Democrats don’t have a firm grip on what makes an economy tick."

Amen.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[George W. Bush]

I suppose someone needs to debunk the Bush-worse-than-Hoover bit.

But most people don't know enough about history or economics to know anything significant about Hoover anyway.

Most people would say: "Who's Hoover? Wasn't he a famous cross-dresser?".

[Common Tator]

Kerry's Economic Plan

Reduce income taxe rates on on those of us whose jobs have been shipped overseas and no longer get a pay check.

Then raise taxes on the rich so they don't have the money to hire us!

[nightdriver]

"And it suggests that Democrats don’t have a firm grip on what makes an economy tick."

One has to remember that democRATs don't WANT to make a capitalistic economy "tick."

They are socialists and subversives and won't be deterred from destroying capitalism and installing their long-dreamt-of socialistic utopia in the U.S.

[Milligan]

Where's Hooverville? Where's the soup lines? "Hey, Mr! Can you spare a dime?"

[Glenn]

Don't shoot me. It's just a question.

Were jobs measured in terms of one or two income houses in 1929?

[Soaring Feather]

Brilliant bump

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I wish someone would ask McAwful how many people lost their jobs at Global Crossing after you made your $18 million windfall?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Did you even read the article?

[Ditto]

bookmark bump

[CGVet58]

it's not about a firm grip; it's about lacing the lies they spout against the administration with enough feeling and articulation to make it "seem and feel right".

It's arrogance of the first order. I work in NY area and am surrounded by leftists. When I discuss a point of civics with most of these folks, I am surprised by the almost complete lack of knowledge about what's going on, or by the dearth of attention-span for anything that doesn't fit into a media-honed "soundbyte", or hasn't been blessed by their official catechism as dubbed by the New York Times. Things like "Bush wants us at war" (while oblivious of the little things like it was we who were attacked); or "what about Halliburton?" (and not understanding that 'no bid' means no one else bid for these contracts).

My favorite??? when they call me a right winger, and I respond that no, I'm a conservative, they're the left-wingers. Or, for example, how they associate fascism/Nazism with the right. That one really chaps my butt, but I respond by telling them that Nazis were socialists and thus are bastard offspring from their political spectrum. These are just a few examples of what we have to deal with... and no, it's not about trying to convince them - if I were expecting that, I'd sooner see the French support us in defense of Western Civ. But neither am I going to stay silent while these elites and their willing, nodding, pavlovian supporters smugly sneer their propaganda.

And, NO, they are NOT Liberals - check any definition of the word and you'll see limited government, low taxes and free markets among the distinctions of definition - things that these leftists certainly are not for.

Juan

[quantim]

It's the moderates who decide elections

I respectfully disagree.  The majority does.  :-)

[Sam Cree]

I like this article, it makes good points. I'm in the middle of reading "FDR's Follies," which makes some of the same ones. It also points out quite clearly that Hoover was not a free market guy, but rather, if anything, kind of an "FDR lite."

From the artlice: Would higher taxes at least reduce inequality and “unfairness,” as Kerry and Edwards are claiming?"

To quote FA Hayek on this question: "Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects."

Needless to say, Kerry and Edwards are not talking aobut the kind of equality that is "conducive to liberty."

[jigsaw]

You are describing what R. Emmet Tyrell has named The Moron Vote.

[Libertina]

But they have a firm grip on sound bites, don't worry if they are true, (in fact prefer them to be false) and are abetted by a shameless socialist rat mouthpiece mainstream media.

Wow, that was fun to write and even got some good alliteration worked in ;)