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Lyin' Steve
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« on: May 16, 2016, 01:29:45 AM »

Some questionable trade decisions aside, Bill's administration did an amazing job with the economy so I really do like this. My parents have a high opinion of Bill regardless of the scandal because the 90's were actually pretty good years.

Yep.  Jeb likes to talk about 4% growth and everyone makes fun of him because it's so pie in the sky (we're around 2-2.5% growth annually under Obama, excluding the -2% growth in 2009) but Clinton's numbers were pretty consistently above 4%.  I think his worst year was 2.7%, still on par with Obama's best.

Reagan was also pretty good, around 3-4% notwithstanding the -2% of the 1982 recession and the 7% of the 1984 bounce-back.

W had three years in the 1s, a few 2-3 years in the mid-2000s and the horror of 2008-2009.
HW's took us from the high 3s to 1s and negative numbers.
No wonder nobody trusted Jeb lol
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Lyin' Steve
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2016, 01:48:29 AM »

Some questionable trade decisions aside, Bill's administration did an amazing job with the economy so I really do like this. My parents have a high opinion of Bill regardless of the scandal because the 90's were actually pretty good years.

I thought she was running on Obama's record and the economy was good. Why does it need to be 'revitalized'?

Are Sanders people only capable of seeing the world in black and white or do you realize how stupid your question is and just couldn't resist the little verbal manipulation dig on Clinton?

The economy was at a 0/10 when Obama came into office.  Now it's at about a 6 or 7/10.  It's not bad and he did a great job getting it there but 9/10 would be better.  It's the same way HW's economy was about a 4/10 and Clinton took it to 9/10.
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Lyin' Steve
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2016, 09:54:12 AM »

Some questionable trade decisions aside, Bill's administration did an amazing job with the economy so I really do like this. My parents have a high opinion of Bill regardless of the scandal because the 90's were actually pretty good years.

Yep.  Jeb likes to talk about 4% growth and everyone makes fun of him because it's so pie in the sky (we're around 2-2.5% growth annually under Obama, excluding the -2% growth in 2009) but Clinton's numbers were pretty consistently above 4%.  I think his worst year was 2.7%, still on par with Obama's best.

Reagan was also pretty good, around 3-4% notwithstanding the -2% of the 1982 recession and the 7% of the 1984 bounce-back.

W had three years in the 1s, a few 2-3 years in the mid-2000s and the horror of 2008-2009.
HW's took us from the high 3s to 1s and negative numbers.
No wonder nobody trusted Jeb lol

Exactly - what a lot of the establishment GOP failed to recognize is that Americans really don't buy the traditional GOP economic orthodoxy - deregulation, across-the-board tax cuts, and free trade - after the Bush 2 years.  I tend to think that those policies were good in the 1980's but have outlived their shelf life.  Bush needed to change course at some point, and it's regrettable he didn't.  I'm not a fan of everything Trump does, but I do think that restricting immigration, renegotiating trade deals, and taking a softer line on taxes (and supporting financial regulation) is definitely the path the GOP needs to take going forward (though perhaps more pro-immigration).

That, and those policies made more sense in the Reagan years because it was becoming clear that to win the Cold War we needed economic growth at the expense of all else, and Carter was a miserable economic steward and put us in a deep recession.  There was a lot of overregulation and we desperately needed tax reform.  Different times.
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Lyin' Steve
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2016, 10:17:25 AM »

Surely can't Democrats understand it was better to have Bill Clinton leading the economic reforms, than say Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp or Bob Dole?



Kemp was A+ and doesn't belong in that group
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