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Rather amazing how the unemployment was at 7.3% when Clinton took office and by the end of 2000 it was under 4%, consistanly going down.
And then when Bush took office in 2001 it immediately started going up - all the way to 4.9% in August 2001. Difficult to blame that on 9/11.
The unemployment rate doesn't work well when people quit looking.
If you want to put the blame on anything, put it on capitalism.Quote:
Originally posted by Wezas
Difficult to blame that on 9/11.
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Tira, these knuckleheads will rarely read any source you submit while arguing the same old story every time without citing sources.
Or, they may resort to name-calling. Yeah, that elementary school tactic.
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If you want to put the blame on anything, put it on capitalism.
~Tirayana
[Edited on 8-28-2004 by Tirayana]
[quote]Originally posted by Artha
Wow! You know the bold code! UR KEWL!@Quote:
Tira, these knuckleheads will rarely read any source you submit while arguing the same old story every time without citing sources.
Or, they may resort to name-calling. Yeah, that elementary school tactic.
PB started it. He always does. :angel:
Ha.
[Edited on 8-28-2004 by Backlash]
After putting a great deal of thought into things, I have concluded that John Kerry=Frank Burns. That is all.
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Originally posted by Tirayana
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If you want to put the blame on anything, put it on capitalism.
Oh man... this is really starting to get ugly.
Ex-Lawmaker Says He Helped Bush With Guard
AUSTIN (AP) - In a video posted on the Internet, Ben Barnes, a former Democratic speaker of the Texas House, said he is ashamed he helped President Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.
``I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard when I was lieutenant governor of Texas, and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it,'' Barnes said in the 45-second video, which was recorded May 27 before a group of John Kerry supporters in Austin. Barnes, who was House speaker when Bush entered the Guard, later became lieutenant governor.
He said he became ashamed after walking through the Vietnam Memorial and looking at the names of people who died.
The video was posted June 25 on the Web site http://www.austin4kerry.org/ but didn't get much attention until Friday, when Jim Moore, an Austin-based author of books about Bush, sent out e-mail messages calling attention to it, The New York Times reported in Saturday's editions.
It was the first time Barnes, a Kerry supporter, has discussed his role in getting Bush into the Guard. In 1999, he said he recommended Bush for a pilot's position at the request of a Bush family friend.
Bush has denied that family influence got him into the Guard.
``It is no surprise that a partisan Democrat is making these statements,'' Bush spokeswoman Claire Buchan told the Houston Chronicle. ``This was addressed five years ago, and there's nothing new.''
08/28/04 10:30
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Ben Barnes was elected Leutenant Governor of Texas in 1969. George W. Bush enlisted in the National Guard in 1968. So how is it that, as Leutenant Governor of Texas, he helped George W. Bush get into the guard? There were 150 openings in the tactical fighter unit George W. Bush applied for, with no waiting list at all.... But then, since when did conspiracy theories need facts?