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...if I were a graduate of the Wharton School of business. But since my roots are more from the practical side of the mid-west, this last recession was engineered by the federal reserve chair, Alan GreenSPAM, who tightened money during Clinton's last year, claiming inflation was shaking its ugly heads, (when no such threat was imminent at all). Then Bush and his cronies steal the election and squeeze the crap out of fiscal programs, ramming through not one but three tax cuts, prolonging the recession with totally failed and inappropriate 'givernement to the rich' policies. The last two quarters of growth came from not the consumer spending, but from military government fiscal spending, the old "guns and butter" trade-offs. Controlled wars can be good for certain segments of the economy.
The last three and half years under Bush have been total smoke and mirrors, lies, give aways to the corporate big shots. Oh, by the way, small businesses closed by the 1,000's under Bush. The new small businesses that he brags about helping, most of them independent contractors. Managers, former business owners, engineers, professionals, who lost their jobs and are taking anything they can as self employed workers, using whatever skills they have to make ends meet. If Bush really wants to help small businesses grow, he'll set up special tax breaks for this group alone, but they can in no way compete with the tax breaks Bush's policies have set up for the rich and big corporations. :(
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