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Old 07-21-2011, 11:27 PM  
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
It's interesting what happens when you ditch the spin and just look at the numbers. When Clinton took office, the economy was growing very strongly. Se the graph to see the results of eight years of Clinton policies:


Note the chart ends just before growth slowed greatly in Bush's final two years. If it continued, the line would go flat for the last two years of Bush, then shoot straight down under Obama. The question was about Clinton, though, and it covers the Clinton years nicely.

Many people seem to remember the first part of the graph - things were good at first, then when Clinton's first budget went into affect the economy quickly went down hill. They remember that the economy was hours good Clinton took office in 1993, but they forget that things started going downhill fast by the time Clinton's budget took affect in 1994.

It reminds me of how Clinton signed THREE major internet censorship bills, CDA, CDA II, and COPPA, yet some people in the adult industry had decided they liked Clinton couldn't admit to themselves that he was coming after them like no president before or since. Clinton signs unconstitutional censorship bills three times but they have to keep believing it's the republicans they should be afraid of, because that's what the guy on Comedy Central said.

Same with civil rights. The KKK was formed to keep democrats in office since they had always opposed civil rights. They opposed the civil rights act of 1864, with the republicans passing it anyway. The Democrats FILIBUSTERED the republican sponsored civil rights act of 1964. Later the democrats elected an officer of the KKK as their leader in the senate. Byrd's first elected position was as leader of the KK and for 51 years the democrats kept electing him. Yet to heart some tell it, it the republicans that are racists. Hire the hell do they pull that off? They try to keep blacks as slaves while the republicans free the slaves . The democrats fight for segregation while the republicans equal rights. Then they claim it's the other guys who are racist and so many people actually believe them?

I don't know how people are tricked into believing such silliness, but the facts on Clinton ans they economy are clear. That chart makes it obvious to anyone who wants to know what's real instead of believing whatever some comedian tells them to. The clear fact is that Clinton took a great economy and ruined it.
Would love to see where you got those numbers from because no matter where I look I don't see anything like that. All the various data from this page would tend to say that that chart is wrong. Or at least that the straight lines drawn on it are intended to mislead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...idential_terms

Or you could fool around with the data on this page

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/unit...tes/gdp-growth

Or here's another one.

http://www.fin.gc.ca/ec2008/images/ecc1_5-eng.gif

Or here's a chart by president as well... I've seen this same sort of data presented in a variety of places and the results have all been pretty consistent.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...h-by-president
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