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I saw a Milton Freedman interview a while back and I cannot remember which channel or which reporter did the interview but this question concerning the health of the US economy was asked of him. He just laughted and stated that we have a good economy and proceeded to quote statistics to back up his statement. After that interview I have come to believe that the leftist media is pounding away at the idea that this economy is weakening because they hope to bring that exact result about in the hope that it will damage the popularity of George Bush. Just go to cnnfn.com and look at the headlines every day. It is obvious what they are up to. Our people have come a long way in their understanding of everything in this nation since 1991. We have had scandals which opened our eyes and caused us to use energy to pay attention and think about our leaders. We also understand the idea of "scapegoating" which is simply pinning the blame for something from where it belongs to some innocent place or person. The expense of Sept. 11 and the expense of fighting terrorism is not cheap. Add on to that the expense of companies having to defend themselves against trial lawyers who bring baseless lawsuits against legal products and the corruption of some CEOs and politicians who promote a bigger and bigger welfare state with more and more taxation plus the normal ups and downs of any economic system and there you have it. In my state, we had a great budget surplus, but it all disappeared and now we have a big deficit. No one can figure out what happened to the money. People here are understanding more since our Governor was nailed in a big sex scandal and it looks like our next Governor will be a Republican. God help him because of the mess he will inherit.

This is no more than the democracts putting this out, they are trying everything else, so why not, it might catch. THEY sure are trying everything possible to do this nation harm just to get at the president. Oh, forgot the republacracts who are helping them the scum of the earth, Sonavich, McCain, Collins, Snow, republicans? Don't think so, they are in bed with the demoflops.

The recession of 1991 was a regular recession. The recession of today is a severe growth recession of historic proportions. The consumer (voter), and thus demand held up very well, whereas business investment and spending fell off a cliff. This problem has been severely misdiagnosed by the Bush administration. At first they denied there was an economic problem, then what corrective measures they took were designed to boost consumer demand, which wasn't where the problem existed. And there was a bipartisan effort to villify businesses and investment leading up to last November's elections. This will take time to filter down to the voter, but it will as our economy keeps "bumping along."