[The_Macallan]

A few more tidbits:
* "2004 Will Be the U.S.'s Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years" ~ The Conference Board's revised forecast, December 2003.
* Manufacturing is at 20-year record highs.
* GDP for the second-half of 2003 grew an incredible 6 percent while inflation was held under 1 percent.
* Real private-sector GDP has expanded at a 5.3 percent annual rate since the Bush tax cuts were passed while in the prior six quarters private-sector GDP averaged only 2.5 percent.
* Foreign exports have been increasing and have actually doubled since six months ago.
* The Federal deficit is estimated to be $477 billion in 2004 but then drop to $362 billion for 2005. The current 2004 deficit is 4.2% of the GDP which makes it smaller, compared to the GDP, than what it was in the late '80s and early '90s.
* The stock markets (i.e. your pensions, IRAs, 401(k)s and college saving plans) have rebounded solidly and are approaching three-year highs.

Economically, things are looking good and getting better.

And so even though GWBush "wrecked" the economy, caused a long and deep recession and threw 4 gabzillion people out of work - in just two years GWBush was still able to keep the poverty rate LOWER than what Clinton had done in almost EIGHT years?
* And all of this IN SPITE OF 9-11, which annhialated one of America's most important financial centers.
* AND in spite of waging two major overseas wars to overthrow two terrorist regimes.
* AND in spite of completely revamping and reconstructing our national security and intelligence agencies to defend against constant domestic terrorist threats.
* And yet we STILL have (as the numbers show) a far BETTER economy after three years of GWBush than when he first took office.
* And, as shown above, GWBush has had a GREATER positive impact on the economy than what Clinton was able to accomplish in his first three years.


Now I bet you'll never hear ANY of this by listening to CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/MSNBC/NPR or by reading USATODAY/NYTimes/WashPost/LATimes.

THERE IS NO LIBERAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA.
THERE IS NO LIBERAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA.
THERE IS NO LIBERAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA.

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It's My "HOMELAND DEFENSE RIFLE"!!

[The_Macallan]

Whoops. Forgot my sources:

http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab1.htm
http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/hstpov13.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/hstpov22.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/q403tab5.html
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/Tfdb/TFTemplate.cfm?DocID=213&Topic2id=20&Topic3id=22
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031211/nyth120_1.html
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0104/012604cdpm1.htm

[Peach]

Although we've lost over 2 million jobs, we've added over 2 million jobs too! A key fact that the Democrats NEVER talk about.

[Paradox]

This is a great bit of work! Amazing what one can do on the internet nowadays. The days of unopposed lies are over, now if we could only get the media to go along..

I think we here on FR were the first to point out the questionable associations between the families who were mad at Bush for the adds. That work, plus a follow up by Rush, really nailed that one down.

We gotta talk up these statistics, I am so sick of hearing the 3million jobs lost stat. They are so shameless, those democrats.

[Spruce]

The rats will label this "negative data" or "attack data". "How dare the President use the economy in such a blatant...blah..blah...blah..."

[bolobaby]

What are you doing? Trying to refute liberal arguments with FACTS is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline! It just makes them roar louder!

[baseballmom]

Great job. Bookmarked and bumped.

I firmly believe that if people are truly curious about this year's election, they will use the internet to gather their information. The broadcast and print media are not reliable sources.

[Danette]

great thread. bump for later reading

[OrioleFan]

I am concerned that an unreported aspect of the jobs issue is that states are passing legislation that is intended to put small business out of business (e.g Maine forcing small business owners to provide healthcare for employees).

Here in Dayton, Ohio there is an economic development organization in Montgomery County that has set up a system where when the city of Dayton drives a business out to one of the surrounding cities in the county, that city has to provide a portion of the tax revenue back to the City of Dayton as compensation. Several of the cities in Montgomery County challenged this but were wacked down by the courts. The root of the problem is the City of Dayton's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. If my company decides to consolidate my office in Beavercreek (Greene County) with our office in Riverside (Montgomery County) then I will become one of the unployment statistics rather than take a 1.5+% cut to pay Dayton local income taxes.

[Arrowhead1952]

The Economy -
GW's 1st three years versus Clinton's 1st three years:

This will be on page A1 of all the major newspapers tomorrow and will be reported on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN news programs.

NOT!!!

[fella]

How dare you to bring facts into the carefully constructed demonrat, NY times, washington post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and NPR propaganda campaign.