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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: markaerwin who wrote (690)	8/12/2000 7:47:07 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1013

Journalists are baffled why Algore isn't "getting credit" for the good economy. Well, what exactly did he do that caused the stock market to skyrocket? What did he do that caused the deficit to drop? What did he do to bring down unemployment and create jobs? Was it the famous middle-class tax cut he and Bill Clinton campaigned so hard for in 1992? No, Clinton abandoned that even before he was inaugurated. Was it the big income tax increase in 1993? No, the government taking more of people's money has never once caused the private economy to expand. Was it the "fiscal stimulus" plan, Clinton's so-called "jobs bill," that was really an attempted payoff to liberal big city mayors? No, that never passed. Was it the Clinton-Gore attempt to nationalize one-seventh of the U.S. economy with socialized medicine? That never passed, either. In fact, the American people were so alarmed that in 1994 they placed both houses of Congress under Republican control for the first time in forty years. (And, if you notice, the stock market has been taking off like a rocket ever since.) So which of the leading economic indicators is thanks to William Jefferson Blythe Clinton or Albert Arnold Algore, Jr.? Nothing.. Unless you credit them for issuing in the Republican Congress, which forced the Clinton-Gore Administration, kicking and screaming, to embrace things like a capital gains tax cut and welfare reform and balancing the budget. No, it's not the Clinton economy. It's not the Clinton-Gore economy. It's not Washington's economy at all. So who's responsible for the American economy? The answer, of course, is Us