Bush econ platform -lousy last 3 yrs , but it'd been worse w/o tax cuts!

[papau]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html Treasury Secretary Snow will address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today and The Note has an exclusive preview of his remarks.
In his prepared remarks, Snow says, "Without the passage of the president's plans, by the second quarter in 2003, the unemployment rate would have been nearly 1 percentage point higher. As many as 1.5 million fewer Americans would be working, and real GDP would have been as much as 2 percent lower."
Snow goes on to say, "What's more, without the president's tax cuts, it is likely that by the end of 2004 the unemployment rate would be as much as 1.6 percentage points higher than it will be. 3 million fewer Americans would be working, and real GDP would be as much as 3.5 to 4 percent lower."
And Snow has this zinger for those who question what Dean has donned the "Bush tax cuts": "Consider this: if the 2001 and 2003 tax relief acts were to expire now, it would raise taxes by an average of $1,544 for 109 million taxpayers in 2003."
"Let me be perfectly clear: failure to make the tax relief permanent would be a huge mistake and would put our recovery in jeopardy."

[Beetwasher]

1. This is too funny! I wonder why they stop at those percentages?

Since they're just making them up anyway, why not claim that without the glorious leaders tax cuts, EVERYONE would be unemployed?

[judge_smales]

2. Surprizingly, he forgot

to slip in the Freepers beloved "Clinton recession" epithet.

[lovedems]

3. My brother is the poster child for dittoheads

and at our beloved Christmas dinner he was actually trying to tell me that the economy wasn't really the economy under Clinton, it was all just a facade. I asked him if he heard that from Pigboy and he just got a stupid look on his face. Luckily for me (and to his disadvantage) my entire family are dems. Instead of eating snickers salad for desert, we just ate him instead!:)

I remember all of the numbers they made up regarding the estate taxes and the tax cuts. I wasn't a math major in college but I know when the numbers don't add up and with this misadministration, they never do!

[ramapo]

4. Brilliant Spin

The Spin Masters do it again. I expect this to be a central theme of the reelection campaign..."Sure things weren't so great but they're getting better and without my policies it would've been worse".

A simple message that's difficult to dispute in a simple statement. Sounds almost reasonable and many will buy it. Just like "Morning in America"