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

To: sandintoes who wrote (650321)	10/23/2004 12:13:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Absolutely amazing the way they keep repeating that canard in the face of repeated denial by the facts. CEA concludes that the "Clinton Recession" began in the third quarter of the year 2000, at least 6 months before Bush took office home.flash.net GDP indicate that the problems for the economy developed in the summer of 2000 www2.sjsu.edu The graphs in their tell the story rather clearly. The NBER- -the official scorekeeper: The committee noted that the most recent data indicate that the broadest measure of economic activity-gross domestic product in constant dollars-has risen 4.0 percent from its low in the third quarter of 2001, and is 3.3 percent above its pre-recession peak in the fourth quarter of 2000. nber.org This indicates the peak in March 2001. Bush would have been in office all of 2 months then. nber.org