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Originally Posted by djplong
Yeah, no kidding. Bush couldn't blame any deficits on Clinton. There were none. He couldn't blame bad unemployment on Clinton - it was 4.2% when he took office, peaked at 6.3% in June 2003 and was 7.8% and rocketing up (750,000 jobs per month evaporating) when he left.
Inflation was at 3.7% when he took office in 2001. By the time he left in 2009, he had several months that year at an annual rate hovering around 5% - which plummeted to DEflation (due to the recession) within months of Obama's inauguration.
By almost any measure, Bush left office with a country in FAR worse shape than he inherited.
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What Bush inherited early on was 9/11....and the plan to destroy our economy worked perfectly for the terrorists. Nobody else among recent Presidents had an attack like this on our own soil.
Already people have forgotten the
desolation left on that day in NY, Washington and in the field in Pennsylvania.