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To: combjelly who wrote (588576)	10/4/2010 3:39:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574040

Not that this will come as any surprise to you: When Gov. Rick Perry announces that a company will get money from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, he often describes it as an important investment in the state's future. An investigation by The Dallas Morning News found that more than $16 million from the Emerging Technology Fund has been awarded to companies with investors or officers who are large campaign donors to Perry. The governor denied that politics influence his decisions on tech fund awards. dallasnews.com

To: combjelly who wrote (588576)	10/14/2010 1:23:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574040

The 30s aren't even arguable, they where definitely much worse. The 70s are arguable, but a reasonable case for a worse decade, considering the inflation, and later stagflation. If your looking for roughly 10 year periods (more like 9 in this case) rather than decades starting or ending with a year ending in 0, than the Arab Oil Embargo to the early 80s recession, would be a quite reasonable candidate as worse than the 00s. In a slightly smaller amount of time, you had three recessions two of which where close to as bad as the recent one, and the third of which was worse than the early 00's recession. The total time under recession was three years two months compared to 2 years 5 months in the 00s. The unemployment peak was .6 percentage points worse. Inflation was more of a problem even at times during the recessions, and certainly by far over the period as a whole. And adding up the total GDP decline from the recessions in each period gives you 8.1% against 4.4% for the recessions in the 00s.