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To: Sam who wrote (8882)	6/3/2009 6:32:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 86356

No to compare them isn't misleading at all. Its also what you are doing. You are comparing the two things. "Comparing them", doesn't imply they are the same. And pointing out flaws in a description of what Bush "inherited" isn't even comparing them. The current crisis is like a 500 year flood compared to a bad thunderstorm 2001. Its a severe recession rather than a mild one. We could have come out of the 2001 recession without the deep deficits that resulted from the Bush tax cuts without corresponding spending cuts. The deficits where primarily due to spending increases. And yes we could have come out of the recession without the tax cuts, but forgoing the tax cuts would have been a bad thing not a good thing. They get deeply discounted water without which the area the could never have supported the population that exists there today, or for that matter for much of the 20th century. Not to mention the agriculture and industry. To the extent that this is true, its and argument against having the population, agriculture, and industry at those locations.