[MD] Clinton vs. Bush

[Ant McWatt]

So is this consumer confidence realistic (i.e. of high quality) considering 
the increasing numbers of re-possessions in the present U.S. housing market?

http://www.americandrugwar.com


Platt stated August 8th:

>Consumer Confidence Hits 6-Year High

>Tuesday July 31, 5:27 pm ET
>By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Business Writer
>Consumer Confidence Rebounds in July to 6-Year High Amid Healthy
>Employment Outlook
>
>Source:
>
>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070731/consumer_confidence.html
>
>Platt
>
>
>[Ron]
> > All lying aside,
> >
> > THE CLINTON RECORD v. GEORGE W> BUSH
> >
> > (Last Update Spring 2005)
>
> > Clinton Record
> >
> > Moved from record deficits to record  $236 billion surplus
>
> >   Bush Record
> >  Budget
> >  Moved from record surplus to record $331 billion deficit.
>
> > This had led the International Monetary Fund (which often bails out
> > basket-case economies) to warn of a fiscal melt down with global
> > repercussions.
>
> >  Domestic Discretionary Spending*
> >
> >  clinton
> >  + 36.3%
>
> >  bush
> > (-11.5%)
>
> >  Civilian Federal Workforce
>
> >  clinton
> > 22 million jobs created
> >
> > bush
> > Lowest unemployment rate in 30 years
>
> >  Job Growth
> >
> > clinton
> >  0.3 million jobs  created (but net civilian job loss)
> >
> > bush
> > Highest unemployment rate in nine years
>
> >  clinton
> > Increased minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15
> >
> >  bush
> >   Wages
> >  Opposes wage increase
> >
> > clinton
> > Earned income tax credit for 15 million poorer working families
> >  Taxes
> >
> > bush
> >  Tax cuts for the rich, increased audits for tax credits for working
> > families
>
> >  clinton
> > Biggest expansion in college aid since GI bill
> >
> >  bush
> >  Education
> >  Under-funds own education initiative
> >
> > clinton
> > Largest expansion of national parks and monuments since Teddy Roosevelt,
> > signed Safe Drinking Water Act, signed Kyoto Accord
> >
> >  bush
> >  Environment
> >  Worst environmental President in history.  Used regulations to
> > undermine Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, rejected Kyoto Accord and
> > expanded logging and oil drilling in national parks and monuments.
> >
> >
> >  clinton
> > Worked with UN, NATO and/or allies to bring peace to Kosovo, Bosnia,
> > Northern Ireland, East Timor, promoted Middle East peace process,
> > nuclear threat through Framework Agreement and saved Mexico from
> > currency crisis.
> >
> >  bush
> >  Foreign Policy
> >  Cowboy unilateralist diplomacy, unilateralist undermined war on
> > terrorism with Iraq venture, increased North Korea threat through Axis 
>of
> > Evil Pigmy comments, antagonized our allies and ignored
> > Argentinean-Brazilian currency crisis.
>
>
> > "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater
> > priority to terrorism than any president before him."  Washington Post.
> >
> >
> > Paul Bremer (current Iraq administrator: "Clinton correctly focused on 
>Bin
> > Laden."
>
> >  Terrorism
> >  In the words of Bush's own counter-terrorism director: "They did know
> > better. We told them. The FBI told them. The CIA told them. They did 
>know
> > better. And the tragedy here is that Americans went to their deaths in 
>Iraq
> > thinking that they were avenging September 11 when Iraq had nothing to 
>do
> > with September 11. I think for a Commander in Chief and a Vice President 
>to
> > allow that to happen is unconscionable."
> >
>
> > The Bush administration focused instead on Star Wars and Iraq.
>
> >  RELATED LINKS: Economic Statistics Briefing Room  (Pres. GW Bush)
> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/income.html; and Economic Statistics
> > Briefing Room  (Pres. Clinton)  http://clinton4.nara.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
>

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