The dog ate my economy
The Thursday Hillsboro Argus has a reasonally balanced editorial titled Good/bad news about how the Republicans tend to spin even terrible news about the economy as good news. The effect of the Bush years has been seen here at home in Hillsboro. Do you all remember the Doonesbury strip and how it made fun of Oregon's shortened shool year in the spring of 2003? Do you remember the additional levies that we had to vote on to keep funding for our schools? Do you remember the increased tuition costs at Oregon's colleges? We all suffered the effects of the Bush Tax.What I find surprising is that the Bush administration was served all the ingredients for a booming economy, and blew it. The interest rates have been at record lows, but we still can't get business to invest in growth. The dollar has been weak, at record low levels against the euro, and we still did not get the boom in the export sector that we should have had. Instead we keep losing jobs to other countries.
The Bush administration had the potential of being great, but it let greed and cronysm get in the way of good government. And now the party line is that it is not their fault. It is Clinton's fault for leaving a sound economy with a surplus instead of a deficit. It is Saddam's fault. It is the fault of the short recession at the beginning of 2001. It is absolutely not the fault of Bush's irresponsible tax cuts that balooned the deficit and lined the pockets of the wealthiest with gold. In short, the dog ate my economy.
In November we will have a choice when we mark our ballot. If we still believe the excuses coming from the right, we deserve to get another four years of Bush. But I will mark my ballot for John Kerry.
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