[CLUE-Talk] Another Bush Lie v2.0

[Randy Arabie]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:18:39AM -0800, bill ehlert wrote:
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> --- Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:
> > Probably another Bush Lie -
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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101680,00.html
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> > "GDP Jumps 7.2 Percent, Biggest Increase in
> > Nearly 20 Years"
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> **  what makes you think it's a lie?
>     seems to me to be a very
>     straightforward associated press
>     article, full of facts, some
>     expressed in numbers:
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>     57,000 more have jobs in sept
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>     new claims for unemployment down
>     5,000 last week
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>     american workers' wages and
>     benefits up 1% last quarter,
>     which is a slight improvement
>     over 0.9% the previous quarter
> 
>     perhaps this was just lame-brained
>     sarcasm on your part.

Perhaps.

>     funny the twerp doesn't mention
>     a few other little economic
>     issues:

Why call the Associated Press a twerp?

>     large clinton budget surplus has
>     vanished, to be replaced by a large
>     shrubbo budget deficit
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>     tax cuts which mostly benefit the
>     well-to-do and wealthy, not the
>     large numbers of regular folks
>     who are  still without jobs

Define well-to-do and wealthy, please.

>     balance-of-payments problem

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Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/