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To: i-node who wrote (821378)	12/7/2014 8:58:49 PM
From: Mongo2116	Respond to of 1583466

Clinton was long gone...it happened on your boys WATCH!!! DEAL WITH IT!! That's what history remembers!

To: i-node who wrote (821378)	12/7/2014 9:41:10 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By zax Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583466

Clinton's insane housing initiative LOL! georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov

To: i-node who wrote (821378)	12/8/2014 10:52:03 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By zax Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583466

Scumbag, it was your boys that caused the recession as well as stuck us in a senseless war. Yeah, you really don't want to talk about the facts. Far better to go for the personal attacks and name calling. And of course, lying. The recession was, without the slightest doubt, a direct result of Clinton's insane housing initiative. Do you shitheads ever take responsibility for your crap? It happened because Bush wasn't watching the hen house. He was too busy biking thru DC or allegedly cleaning up his ranch.

To: i-node who wrote (821378)	12/8/2014 10:58:40 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 1583466

When the U.S. economy is the envy of the world 12/08/14 04:58 PM—Updated 12/08/14 06:25 PM By Steve Benen Last week, before the new job numbers came out, Catherine Rampell made a very good point: “Unhappy with the economic recovery in the United States? Could be worse. Specifically, we could be literally any other country in the world that also just went through a major financial crisis.” Don't look now, US economy booming! Right. In the public discourse, there’s often a temptation to compare the current economic recovery to other recoveries that followed modern downturns. There’s one glaring problem with this: the global crash in 2008 was the worst crisis the world has seen since the Great Depression. Comparing it to more routine, cyclical downturns is like comparing a twisted ankle to getting hit by a bus – they both hurt, but the scope and scale of the damage is qualitatively different. It’s smarter, then, to compare our economic recovery against other countries who dealt with similar circumstances. And on this front, as President Obama was eager to remind Americans in his weekly address, we’re the envy of the world: “America, we still have a lot of work to do together. But we do have real, tangible evidence of our progress. 10.9 million new jobs. 10 million more Americans with health insurance. Manufacturing has grown. Our deficits have shrunk. Our dependence on foreign oil is down. Clean energy is up. More young Americans are graduating from high school and earning college degrees than ever before. Over the last four years, this country has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and every advanced economy combined.” That last point is no small detail. In the aftermath of the crash, advanced economies around the globe rushed to respond, with many adopting competing solutions. Many chose the kind of austerity measures Republicans hoped to impose on Americans. Fortunately for those who want to see the U.S. succeed, Republicans weren’t in a position of power in 2009. As a result, as Rachel noted on the show on Friday, American growth is “outperforming other economies.” Indeed, one of the more striking aspects of the recent upswing in the domestic economy is that “the U.S. remains a standout as the rest of the world struggles.” After highlighting the latest jobs numbers late last week, I was surprised by the pushback from conservative readers eager to tell me there were hints of bad news, hiding amidst the good news, if one looks closely enough. It was, to be sure, odd to see quite so many people who seemed almost desperate to feel discouraged by the best American job market in 15 years. But more than that, their arguments were strikingly unpersuasive. The results don’t count, they said, because most of the jobs are part-time jobs. The problem with this argument is that it’s plainly wrong: “[F]ewer people are getting stuck in part-time jobs. The number of people working part time because they can’t find full-time work is at its lowest level since the recession (although it remains high by historical standards).” OK, they said, but maybe the results don’t count because wages aren’t climbing. Wrong again: “[C]rucially, employers are paying workers more: Average weekly earnings rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier, their fastest pace in a year.” For now, let’s put aside the fact that it’s unseemly for Americans to be saddened by good news. Instead, I hope the political world will pause to realize that while our economic recovery hasn’t been fast enough, and it would have been stronger had it not been for congressional Republicans taking capital out of the economy on purpose, we’re still leading the world, creating job growth unseen in the United States since the 1990s, and unseen among advanced economies internationally.