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Part I Legacy Lies: GDP (January, 2001)

Spare Us the Bill Clinton Economic Miracle Crap

Fact—the final two years of the Bush presidency saw a very healthy climb in GDP following the mini-recession and the Gulf War in 1991, as shown above. Fact—Bill Clinton lied and ignorant Americans bobbed their heads in agreement when he campaigned in 1992 and said we were in a recession (that ended in spring 1991). Fact—the GDP just reported is just over 2%. Compare that to the final quarters of Bush senior as shown above, moving from 3% to 5% +.

Clinton took over a growing economy. He leaves us in a sinking economy.

Just think for a second. Over and over again, all we have heard from the left is the world was not spinning when Clinton took office. The folks say hey, if Al and Bill said we were in a mess, and Geraldo and Bernard repeated that, then they were true believers of that falsehood. Unfortunately, many people just don't bother to check the facts. The press spins. They do not report facts. Perhaps as the masses hook up to the Internet, they will visit some of the government web sites and peruse the GDP data, labor statistics, and others.

On Jan. 12, Bill Press said on CNN's Crossfire "he's [Clinton] been there eight years. It's the longest period of economic growth in our history." On the same show, Ann Lewis, former Clinton advisor said "That's a success of Bill Clinton's economic policies, that we got stronger as a nation—not by dividing us, but by economic policies that gave everybody a chance." And on Jan. 9, from CNN's Inside Politics, Bernard Shaw: "Time now for a brief discussion of the Clinton presidency and how he will be viewed by the world once he leaves office. Today, we focus on his economic record."

Is that all there is? What's with this crutch?

Could it be because, like a recent poll showed, 68% of those polled said that scandals are what comes to mind first when they think of Clinton? There are two glaring problems with this "it's the economy, stupid" crutch when rummaging for Clinton kudos or a legacy.

First, it is a fallacy. We were not in a Bush abyss as the press claims. It was growing steadily as the graph shows. And second, the economy is sinking fast in SCUMBAG's last months here, a reminder to us all the direction our pride in the Office of the President headed during Clinton's tenure.

I would bet these liberals have no more knowledge of Econ 101 than the corner panhandler. In every case, they revert to this false "economic miracle" when scratching for something when the legacy question comes up. Scandals and impeachment are the obvious legacies. So the press digs deep to find something—anything—to hold in high praise. But the economy? C'mon! The talking heads should have dropped one of their journalism classes and took an elective in economics.

Demographics drive the economy as the birth rates forty to fifty years ago have the large baby boomers in their peak earning and spending years. Clinton did not populate the earth a half century ago. The information revolution started long before the sordid Clinton years. Technology has self-driven the world economy with a "domino-demand" effect, and it was the corporate world to thank that for, not Slick. Greenspan? That was a Reagan appointment. Policy and laws? That was a Republican Congress six of the eight years.

We have to expect this. These are the same twisters of truth who labeled growth during the Reagan years as the "decade of greed." They now want to call economic growth in the 1990s "prosperity" and the "Clinton miracle."

In all fairness, leave the presidents out of it. Don't blame them for the bad, don't credit them the good. The economy has major drivers outside presidential control. Presidents are only one cog in the great gears of the world economy.

Please. Tell it to us straight just once—and stop digging. Bill Clinton soiled the pride we all had in this great country and his only legacy was third world style corruption at the highest levels of government. Impeachment was to kind to him.

Don't even attempt dredging up this economic miracle crap again. Slick, the only legacy we will remember you for is the F word—felony. ( Go to Part II )

 

On the left, we have William Jefferson Clinton.

 

And on the right, Linda Chavez.

And in the middle, we have a very big difference of opinion.

Obstruction of Justice

Witness Tampering

Perjury, . . .

  
Oh, Linda? She lent a helping hand to an abused woman from war-torn Guatemala.

He stays.

 

  

She goes.
     

This is the new age age brand of bipartisanship.

Praise the felon, crucify the doer of good deeds.

However, Ms. Chavez should not have withheld that information from the Bush people. The President-elect did right in not coming to her defense.

Unlike liberals, we are not afraid to say that.

These same extremists who ripped Ms. Chavez to shreds will be out in full force soon demanding that Mr. Ray not indict Clinton on felony charges.

Go figure.

 

In the previous issue of Sentry

Inaugural issue—let the show begin!

Copyright © 2001 Sentry over America

 

Some make you laugh. Some make you angry. But they all give you that "shake your head in amazement feeling" and make you wonder if they really believe what they said.

On chamber floor, counting the electoral votes:

Rep. Alcie Hastings, D-FL, referring to Al Gore as "Mr. President, and I take great pride in calling you that, I must object because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct."

Rep. William Clay, D-MO, compared Ashcroft's nomination "to the way that Ku Klux Klan members worked to improve race relations...they, too, reached out to blacks with nooses and burning crosses."

1/7/01
From NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS
In his own way of getting this new working relationship off to a good start, Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, commented on the antics of those house members objecting to the electoral votes on the chamber floor by saying "I had enormous, and have enormous, respect for what they did yesterday."

On that same broadcast, Sen. Kerry questioned John Ashcroft's "ability to be the kind of neutral, moral force for equal distribution of the law and application of the law at a time when the country really needs that."

Funny, Kerry never questioned Ashcroft when he was crafting the laws while serving in the Senate.

What's this "neutral, moral force" stuff? Is that like Janet Reno sitting on her flabby butt with her gear in neutral while the FBI begs her to appoint an independent prosecutor?

From Ralph Neas, People for the American Way: "John Ashcroft is well-qualified to be head of the Christian Coalition. He is well-qualified to be head of the National Rifle Association. He is not qualified to be Attorney General of the United States."

Well, Mr. Neas, I suppose we can then say Janet Reno is well-qualified to be head of the National Organization for Women. She is well-qualified to be a paralegal for the ACLU. She is not qualified to be Attorney General of the United States.

From Bill Clinton, speaking at Michigan State University: "When I took office, the national unemployment rate was 7.3 percent, 7.4 here in Michigan. Now, it is 4 percent."

There are a few more people that can say that. Like that tin can lady that Al Gore produced. She was collecting tin cans when Clinton took office and the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent. And she still is collecting tin cans and now the unemployment rate is 4 percent.

Now Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, and Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, Steve Case, CEO of America Online, they too started the year of 1993 with the unemployment rate at 7.3 percent, and by golly, now the unemployment rate is 4 percent.

And I bet these CEOs, and many other large and small business owners, hired a lot of employees since 1993 to help bring that unemployment rate down, mostly due to their own profitable management and worldwide demand.

Thank you, corporate America. And thank you, Ronald Reagan, for helping to "tear down this wall."

It was great you, corporate America, had that massive restructuring in the late 80s. And Mr. Reagan, it's nice to have that old Eastern Europe demand feeding our economy.

Now Bill, tell us what YOU did that was so great.

 
 
 
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