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To: combjelly who wrote (335743)	4/28/2007 6:05:58 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574343

re: Oh no! How could this happen? No one could have predicted it...Except damn near anybody who isn't ideologically driven and lived through at least part of the 1970s as an adult. <sigh> Nobody heeded the warnings when we talked about Vietnam. Nobody is heeding the warnings when we talk about the economy. What do you do?

To: combjelly who wrote (335743)	4/29/2007 12:37:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574343

An amusing thing I found while I was researching New Zealand. Apparently the Labor party took over from the conservatives in the early 1990s. Part of their platform was privatization, cut the tax rate and simplify the tax code and deregulation. Net result, an economy that wasn't doing so well, promptly took several torpedoes, rolled over and sank. It took years for the economy to recover. The Labor party cut taxes? That's surprising. I thought tax cuts were mostly the domain of conservatives.