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Politics : Sarah Palin - Is She Hot or Not?
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To: longnshort who wrote (114)9/2/2008 9:53:54 PM
From: Peter V   of 781
 
"economies go in cycles"

that's why AVERAGES are important. And on average, Dems have been "luckier" than Pubs.

Bush has been cooking the economic numbers lately, so I'm not sure I trust his job growth numbers. Just recently we saw that they started adding in birth/death rates so they created jobs out of assumptions, not actual figures. I'd have to research it to give you all the facts, but we discussed it on the neolib RE thread.

Toss in the "substitution" factor now allowed in calculating inflation (if steak is too expensive, you can substitute chicken), and you begin to wonder about the rest of the numbers too.
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