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Bush Mentions Recession In 2000, Gets Ripped A New One. Obama Dogs Economy For Months, Gets Free Pass As We Go Belly Up

Just eight short years ago the newly elected 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, had made some references to the fact that our economy may be headed for a slight recession and his administration was preparing to do what they could to try and nip this scenario in the bud. Then all hell broke loose. Yet for months we have been subjected to nothing but doom and gloom from the Obama camp of behind the scenes handlers and where the hell are the folks that laid into Bush for merely suggesting things were slowing down a bit in 2000? Where are the media hounds crying foul about Obama hurting the economy with his constant barrage of negativity?

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CATO Institute Veers Sharply "Right" Around Obama's 100% Congressional Democrat Approved Taxpayer Money Giveaway Boondoggle

Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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