"It further entrenches the Bush tax cuts, even though the median income and the number of Americans with jobs are lower today than when the tax cuts were signed in 2001 (an almost unprecedented decade-long record of futility)."The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in February 2001 there were 111,624,000 people employed in the United States' private sector and that by January 2009 that number had sunk to 110,961,000. That’s a decrease of 663,000 private sector jobs during George W. Bush's eight years in office.
I don't remember hearing a single peep from Teabaggers during that very dismal eight long year period.
When Bill Clinton left office the median family income was $52,500. Eight miserable years later when Bush left office it was $50,303.
Not a single peep from not one of those sheep.
When George W. Bush and 90% of Congressional Republicans passed their $1.3 TRILLION socialist 'health-care reform bill' in 2003 that was even more costly than 'Obamacare' and was really nothing but a political kickback to their pharmaceutical and insurance industry lobbyists; teabaggers or Fox News didn't say squat.
In a January 2000 report the Congressional Budget Office estimated that we would have somewhere between $3.2 and $4.2 TRILLION in SURPLUSES for the next ten-year period, 2001 - 2010. Bill Clinton handed George W. Bush and the Republican controlled Congress a $128 billion SURPLUS in 2001. The so-called 'conservative' Party immediately began bankrupting the country setting eight consecutive, record DEFICITS and adding over $6.5 TRILLION to our nation's debt while Bush slithered back to Texas sticking us with his $1.2 TRILLION close-out bill.
Funny... I missed that fucking Glenn Beck 'freedom' rally.
