Michael Fitzsimmons

The Economics of Political Spin

gramps: i was talking about the number of employees in the federal government. clinton computerized and automated many government functions to make the more efficient. it was part and parcel of the welfare reformation project his administration embarked on. in the process, he cut the number of federal employees back to the what the number was in JFK's administration. wrt the tax policies, clinton shut down the federal government in his first term and FORCED congress to pass tax and spend legislation that was in balance. thus, the balanced budget and the strong dollar. it's all in the statistics published by the CBO, so, if you think this is just a website rant, go look at the statistics yourself. wrt emission laws, i think you need to go check out the work the EPA (i call them the environmental destruction agency now under bush) and see exactly what you are talking about. look at the people bush put in charge of the "clean air" or "blue sky" laws or whatever he called them. wrt 4), no, both bush's were economic disasters for the middle class, but the 1st bush was better than the 2nd. the 2nd bush is simply the worst president in the history of the country. bar none. no one else is even close, especially when it comes to economics. bush's economic policies have been disastrous for the middle class, disastrous for the financial markets. i mean come on gramps, could you imagine if clinton had federalized the mortgage market? taken over bear stearns?? bush now has bernanke and paulsen working on taking over the entire banking and financial systems! this is not "conservative republicanism", it is called fascism. it is pre WW2 germany all over again. and the europeans see it. unfortunately americans are uneducated about history and tend to listen to rush limbaugh and larry kudlow instead of doing what jake gitties said to do: what the money! especially your own. i can only conclude that you are a billionaire and the inflation in food and energy, and the deflation of your investments don't bother you at all. if so, definitely vote for mccain and get that summer home in france all spruced up so you can escape the US when we fall further into the economic abyss bush has put us in.