Alan Baker wrote in
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In article ,
RD Sandman wrote:

Yes, I believe that the decline actually started at the end of the
Clinton administration with the dot.com industry going bust and
the regulations being eased on the housing and financial markets
and the Democrats' dream of new home ownership. Clinton wanted 8
million new home owners. Bush continued that dream with a desire
for 5.5 million on his watch. Oversight went in the toilet, we
had 9/11, two wars, an unfunded mandate on Medicare Part D, etc.

We also had a Democratically controlled House and Senate since the
2006 elections and lack of oversight on Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, Obama campaigning that Afghanistan was the "right" war and a
continuation of the many of the same policies that existed under
Bush. The economy was in the toilet, jobs were going away and
Obama was concentrating on passing his historic healthcare bill
(insurance reform) rather than to focus on the other two problems.

Yes, I believe those things. I also believe that, sometime, Obama
needs to stand up and be counted rather than to continue to blame
things on Bush.

Wow. Talk about reality distortion fields....

Yep, too many folks on both sides have them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_cr..._presidential_
ter ms

What did you want me to look at on that cite? The 1.1 million
created under Bush or the 1.81 lost under Obama? That is what those
+ and - signs mean, don't ya' know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...esidential_ter
ms


How about:

07/25/2011 14,535,921,315,199
09/30/2010 13,561,623,030,891.79
09/30/2009 11,909,829,003,511.75
09/30/2008 10,024,724,896,912.49
09/30/2007 9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86

We could use the 2000 fiscal year end and start Bush with $5.7T and
ending with $10.1T. Now Obama is at $14.5T after only 2.5 years.
Let's see that is Bush at $4.4T in 8 years and Obama at $4.4T in less
than 3. Got it. Thanks.

Hmmmm...

You brought Clinton into the discussion, but suddenly you don't want
to include him anymore...


What nmakes you think that? I also included his last fiscal year
budget.....simply because during Clinton is where some of the seeds of
our current predicament were sown. Your tendency was to place ALL the
blame on Bush.....

--
RD (The Sandman)

Thought for the day.......

Handle every stressful situation like a dog would.
If you can't eat it or hump it....**** on it and walk away.