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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Only Archie is sleepless
	Date:	1/9/2013 11:54:19 AM

I do appreciate his staying up late at night pounding away on the keyboards with a red face and sweat pouring out but I am a little worried about his health.....physical and mental. But as you can see from my post below my statements were accurate and backed by the data. Its just that Archie doesn't like to read carefully and he loves to cherry pick data and apply different standards. To wit, everything positive that happens during a Democrat's term is directly a result of tax increases and everything negative that happens was directly a result of some Republican somewhere at some time somehow........and tax cuts had to be in there somewhere.....we just can't have the American people keep more of their own money........

What he doesn't want to do is look into each of these issues in any detail. To critically and carefully examine them. As an example, the recession in 2008 that was caused by the bursting of the housing bubble, said bubble caused by the distortion of the real estate markets as a result of the CRA, Fannie and Freddie. He thinks they were caused by tax rates put in place in 2002 by Bush and Congress in response to Clinton's economic slowdown (which was probably a minor recession as I documented from CNN in an earlier thread) and 9/11. And he thinks that the abysmal economic results of Oblamer's entire first term were Bush's fault but that the lower unemployment numbers in the middle part of Carter's presidency were not Nixon/Ford's "fault".

But again, it is easy to generalize without looking at what actually happened. Its why liberals today still think FDR was a good president. That's why I use facts, logic and reason together because it is easy to delude yourself with the basic numbers.