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In response to "Hasn't the GOP been spending the last 4 years pedaling furiously away from pretty much even a mention of the Bush era, though? -- nm" by znufrii

Those 4-6% unemployment rates were brutal, man! -- nm

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Jul 13 '12, 10:16

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To say nothing of the $3 trillion spent on a misguided military conflict. - David Jul 13, 10:27 13
- If only we had a crystal ball to see the alternate reality. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:30 12
  - 2-3 Trillion dollars leaves a lot of alternate reality. - Will Hunting Jul 13, 10:36 2
    - Yes, it does. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:39 1
      - But given the GOP is allergic to big spending (TARP was a catalcysmic fight)....they weren't going to spend 3T in. - Will Hunting Jul 13, 10:41
  - In crystal ball alternate reality, we raised taxes to pay for the wars. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 10:33 1
    - In a crystal ball alternate reality, you gave yourself a good haircut, mohawk. -- nm - Inigo Jul 13, 10:35
  - Like...I did. Seriously, tell me the part about Bush again while discussing the $3 trillion spent on a misguided war. - David Jul 13, 10:32 2
    - I agree with your header - but can we not make the comparison in your IM? -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 10:35
    - quibble... - Mel Profit Jul 13, 10:33
  - You don't need a crystal ball. No Iraq, no 3 trillion down the drain. No strain on our military. Etc, etc, etc. -- nm - TWuG Jul 13, 10:32 3
    - Easy peasy, right? Nothing else changes? - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:34 2
      - So what changes do you see? (Gus Avrokato's Zen master story is true, but also a cop-out answer) -- nm - Roger More Jul 13, 10:41 1
        
        No clue. Nobody has any idea what the Middle East would be like right now if we hadn't invaded Iraq. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 12:33
"don't worry about the supplemental military budgets..." -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 13, 10:21
It's funny how those rates went up at the end of his term as all his policies started to bear fruit. - TWuG Jul 13, 10:20 7
- It's funny how he always gets blamed for the current economy, but never gets credit for how it actually was when he was in Office. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:22 6
  - It was a typical decent economy built on the back of an unsustainable bubble - Will Hunting Jul 13, 10:33
  - Because the economy lags policy. He instituted fucked policies and as those fucked policies started to take effect the economy tanked. - TWuG Jul 13, 10:29 2
    - He started with a great economy? Really? - Strongbad Jul 13, 10:32 1
      - Scary? *laughing* It was a rough economy...it wasn't "scary". -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 10:38
  - If you assign both to him, would you call that a net gain or a net loss? -- nm - Max Jul 13, 10:24
  - because the end of it showed exactly how illusory and unsustainable it was. -- nm - znufrii Jul 13, 10:23

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