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The Economy: Does It Take a Clinton to Clean Up After a Bush?
Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2007 | Larry Elder

Posted on 11/29/2007 12:46:41 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Clinton...the POS between the Bushes.


21 posted on 11/29/2007 1:09:45 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

22 posted on 11/29/2007 1:11:40 PM PST by MarkeyD (Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
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To: MarkeyD
Better graphic.
23 posted on 11/29/2007 1:13:40 PM PST by MarkeyD (Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
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To: aflaak

ping


24 posted on 11/29/2007 1:13:52 PM PST by r-q-tek86 (rich, berserker, shield biting, mushroom eating, soccer ignoring business owner)
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To: I see my hands

That pretty much sums it up quite accurately!


25 posted on 11/29/2007 1:14:46 PM PST by Ignatz (There's no place like 127.0.0.1....there's no place like 127.0.0.1....)
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To: Kaslin

Why mess with the economy that was totally good under the 7 years of President Bush?


26 posted on 11/29/2007 1:19:11 PM PST by Wiz
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To: EyeGuy

Any economic boom falsely attributed to Slick was due to his being forced at times, to adhere to largely conservative principles......Wrong. Clinton inflated all figures by 30% and that could not withstand the economic model we were TOLD we were experiencing.


27 posted on 11/29/2007 1:19:34 PM PST by Safetgiver (So simple, even a Muslim can do it.)
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To: MarkeyD

Send that to the article’s editor :)


28 posted on 11/29/2007 1:19:51 PM PST by Wiz
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To: dblshot

Taxpayers


29 posted on 11/29/2007 1:21:33 PM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: dblshot
The question is, who cleans up a bush after a Clinton?

"You better put some ice on that."
30 posted on 11/29/2007 1:24:02 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden have the same position on global warming, for the exact same reason.)
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To: LibLieSlayer
You didn’t bother to actually read the article did you?
31 posted on 11/29/2007 1:25:55 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Kaslin

Further verification that Hillary is a liar.


32 posted on 11/29/2007 1:29:16 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: golfisnr1
Bush had to clean up all the pizza stains in the WH when he took office.

Pizza stains weren't the worst of it.

33 posted on 11/29/2007 1:30:21 PM PST by AU72
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To: EyeGuy
SHE wants to clean OUT the economy and remake it according to HER preferences. Slick tried the same thing with his tax increases. Much of Slick’s tax increases were thwarted by other developments. His CEO tax encouraged the rise of stock options and his unlimited Medicare tax led to the rise of Subchapter S corporations. With the internet and PC boom along with conservative tax cuts on investments, the economy blossomed.

However, SHE means business. SHE will not blunder like Slick and Bush. SHE will have an extremely Marxist Congress to perform her bidding. The results of this Marxist trifecta will be a staggering tax increase, an unprecedented growth in entitlements, nationalization of many industries (health care, student loans, mortgage lending, media, and energy), price controls through global warming restrictions, explosion of racial preferences, unchecked growth of litigation, open southern borders, and powerful rise of unions. All of these changes will be permanent, changed only by a tidal wave of opposition.

Please vote wisely next November. Remember who the real enemy is.

34 posted on 11/29/2007 1:35:17 PM PST by businessprofessor
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To: sageb1
Bookmarking to send to the under 30 crowd.

The kids around the thanksgiving table ignored all of the political discussion as usual. "Universal healthcare" "national debt" "raised taxes" "Social security"....all went right over their heads.

What snapped them to attention, I noticed,... what REALLY perked up their ears: I said, "That's ok...we're gonna make these kids pay for your check, grampa!...." "No worry, Hillary is going to sign these kids up here to pay for your free healthcare." "Barack Obama is going to take enough from these kids to pay for ma's social security check."

That really surpried me how much they actually got into it when it was placd on those, true terms.

And it WILL be them paying for all this garbage.

Are any of the candidates talking/framing it thataway?

35 posted on 11/29/2007 1:47:21 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Kaslin
"There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush." So said presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a speech -- specifically on the economy

The lie that just keeps on giving - Clinton inherited a growing economy and passed on a slowing economy.

36 posted on 11/29/2007 1:51:39 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: sageb1

Why do you say that?

Why not say that?


37 posted on 11/29/2007 1:54:54 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: Kaslin

bttt


38 posted on 11/29/2007 1:57:50 PM PST by petercooper ("Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime." - Nicole Gelinas - 02-10-04)
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To: Kaslin; Obadiah; Mind-numbed Robot; Zacs Mom; A.Hun; johnny7; The Spirit Of Allegiance; ...
For the top Democratic candidates, the difference was even more striking: Barack Obama received coverage that was 70 percent positive and 9 percent negative, and Hillary Clinton's was 61 percent positive and 13 percent negative. On the other hand, only 26 percent of the stories on Republican candidates were positive and 40 percent negative.
You can cite statistics like that until the cows come home, but it goes right over people's heads because we have all been brainwashed with the propaganda that journalism is objective - and people just don't see why journalism should be slanted, or why journalism should be all slanting the same way.

There are reasons, actually pretty simple reasons, why this is the case. First, "Why would the various newspapers and broadcast networks be unified?" The answer to that is that newspapers in the founding era were diverse, and they did not have efficient means of gathering news which the rest of the population did not hear first from other sources. That changed with "the wire" - the (1848) advent of the Associated Press. The AP succeeded in monopolizing the transmission of news by telegraph - and when its monopoly was questioned on the grounds that it produced a concentration of propaganda power, the AP sold the story that the AP was "objective."

The AP transformed the newspaper business into a true news business delivering information which was not otherwise available to the general public. But, all protestations of objectivity notwithstanding, the Associated Press has one inherent bias: that the news - simply because it is new and known first by the AP - is important. What if the news wasn't important?

The reality is that on a typical day you probably cannot remember anything in the newspaper from exactly 5 years ago. There is only so much going on that is actually important, and reported daily developments ordinarily are of no enduring significance. And that means that the Associated Press in general, and the journalistic outlets which it supplies in particular, are inherently superficial. They are also generally negative, because the most dramatic changes are typically negative changes - simply because it is more dramatic to realize that a house burned down in less than a day than it is to understand that the nation's building contractors finish new houses every day, too. But there is less drama in the completion of ten months-long house construction projects than there is in the surprise demolition of the fruits of one such project.

In addition, since journalism is simply talk, journalism has an inherent tendency to promote criticism at the expense of action - to denigrate and second guess the businessman, the policeman, and the soldier. And to puff up the teacher, the plaintiff lawyer, the union leader, and the second-guessing politician by assigning them the favorable label of "progressive."

  Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate


39 posted on 11/29/2007 2:00:52 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: LibLieSlayer; Bitsy
This is a joke right?

Townhall must have been purchased by soros... what comes out of their place these days is dnc tripe. LLS

Did you two read a different thread and this comment on this one? Larry Elder's column factually and methodically refutes the myth that clinton inherited a recession and turned it into a booming economy and points out that Bush inherited a clinton recession and turned the economy around with growth oriented tax cuts. Yeah, sounds like a Soros joke to me.

40 posted on 11/29/2007 2:01:25 PM PST by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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