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   From: Grumpy@doofis.FAKEcom   
      
   wbarwell wrote:   
   >   
   > NoSurrender@never.net wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:10:10 -0800, "Rick"  wrote:   
   > >   
   >   
   > >>14 million American jobs were created during Clinton's eight years.   
   > >>   
   > >>Some recession.   
   >   
   > Wrong.  Try 22 million.   
   >   
   > >   
   > > The recession started in the last two quarters of the Clnton   
   > > ayears...with the popping of the dotcom bubble.   
   >   
   > According to official accounting, the recession started under   
   > Bush, not Clinton.  The claim the recession started under Clinton   
   > came from the White House economic advisors, who are not   
   > the official score keepers of when recessions start.   
   >  When NESA was considering a re-calculation of when the   
   > recession offivcially started, the presidents council of economic   
   > advisors estiamted that a correction would be made that   
   > would place the recession squarley in Clinton's adminstration.   
   > It didn't.  But the claim was made and the truth, as usual, for the   
   > right, never caught up again with the ideological bullshit claims.   
   > This false claim still is being passed along by the usual usenet kooks as   
   > gospel.   
   >   
      
      
   Twistin' the fact again eh?  The downturn began in May of 2000.  It may   
   well be that the situation did not approach recession status until well   
   into 2001 but that does not discount the fact that the Fed failed to act   
   when the first signs appeared in the 2000.  Further, the dot.com bust   
   and Y2K task completion occurred in the Clinton years and contributed   
   mightily to the following recession not to mention the unknown of 9/11.   
      
   You libs can twist the most damning of statistics into a backyard party, yes?   
      
      
      
      
      
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