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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (640909)	10/9/2004 12:04:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

[The official government position is that the recession began around March/April of 2001, lasted about 9 months, and was one of the mildest on record....] "That doesn't stop GWB from saying he inherited it." Of course you are correct. Usually, it would take wild horses to stop a politician from saying something self-serving. In the debate last night Bush reiterated what I said in my post, that the recession (over for more then 2 1/2 years now) was "one of the mildest on record." Which begs the question of course that --- if it was so 'mild' and ended over 2 1/2 years ago --- why the deficit is such a continuing problem, and why the revovery in employment is so sub-par....