`I had a lot more money in my pocket when Clinton was president''

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aas9yMMtElZI&refer=


Bush Is Faulted on Economy as Gasoline Prices Rise, Poll Shows


Like most other Indiana residents, Chris Burden voted for George W. Bush twice, mostly because he saw the Texan as someone with values similar to his own.

...

``Gas prices are knocking us back into the dirt,'' said Burden, 31, one of the respondents in the poll. ``It seems like, since Bush took office, the government is burning up cash again, and things are getting worse.''

...

He's now looking for a factory job, ``something that pays decent, but they're hard to come by.'' Bush is spending too much time and money on Iraq when he should be working to get Americans better jobs, Riggle said.

Republican candidates in close races nationwide are distancing themselves from Bush. U.S. Representative Mark Kennedy of Minnesota, hoping to capture a Senate seat this November, recently replaced two pictures of Bush on his Web site with shots of Kennedy and some kids, according to the National Journal.

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``I had a lot more money in my pocket when Clinton was president,'' said Bill Eastham, 56, an assembly line worker at an Alcoa smelting plant in nearby Newburgh, Indiana. ``I blame everything on Bush; the buck stops there.''

[Rottenmac]

1. We all did, Mr. Eastham

... we all did.

[MemphisTiger]

2. I'm just sayin', when my boy was in office I was paying

$0.99/gal of gas.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Democratic = Prosperous

Republicans are bad for business

[Debau2005]

4. Well

It only took them 6 years to realize it!

[mucifer]

5. Stephen Colbert says he has more money since bush has been in office

:rofl:

[stop the bleeding]

6. "because he saw the Texan as someone with values similar to his own."

Ummmm lets see - * was a bad business owner, bad baseball owner, loves torture, wouldn't talk about his past regarding AWOL and the booger sugar, gives tax breaks to the WEALTHIEST, could care less about Katrina, gives big breaks to OIL, stomps all over civil liberties, and wipes his ass with the Constitution. Yep those are OUTF*CKINGSTANDING values:crazy:

[anarch]

10. yeah, but he doesn't care for homos

and likes killing non-white people. So that trumps all the rest of it for some people, apparently.

[Warpy]

7. Mr Eastham needs to catch a clue. It's not just Stupid

it's the bankrupt policies of his party, the policies that started under Reagan and are coming to fruition now that have robbed him of a living paycheck and any hope for a decent future.

Republicans are the deadly enemy of anyone who works hard for a living, and the sooner people wake up to that fact, the sooner they will work to change things.

[skipos]

8. Democratic presidents historically yeild better economies

Forbes has some ratings of economic prosperity that verify this.

"Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton tops the magazine's prosperity chart. He is followed by two other Democrats – Johnson and Kennedy. The first Republican to show up is Reagan, who comes in fourth. No Democrat finishes lower than seventh (Truman), and the last three spots are all occupied by Republicans (Nixon, Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush). On a scale of one to eleven (one being Bill Clinton, eleven being the elder Bush), Democrats have an average ranking of 3.8, Republicans of 7.8."

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=131769

That probably explains why democrats are better for the stock market too.

DOW SINCE 1901
Republican years Avg. annual change 6.9%
Democratic years Avg. annual change 13.3%
Source: Stock Trader’s Almanac 2005

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2005-12-02-presidents_x.htm

[WePurrsevere]

9. VERY Interesting Information. This is the type of stuff Dems need to use

against the Republicans. The only ones that make money when Republicans are in power are the big corporations and their CEO's, etc.