Well, here' s the "greatest story's" final chapter:
Net Payroll Jobs Growth
Clinton: about 23 million
Bush 2: about 5 million (and much of that was government jobs)
Federal Budget
2000 budget surplus $236 billion
2004 budget deficit $412 billion
2008 budget deficit $438 billion
Federal Debt
2000: $5.7 trillion
2008: $10.2 trillion (much of it financed by China)
Dow Jones Industrial Average
1/19/01: 10,587.59
1/19/05: 10,539.97
10/09/08: 8,579.19
NASDAQ
1/19/01: 2,770.38
1/19/05: 2,073.59
10/09/08: 1,645.12
S&P 500
1/19/01: 1,342.54
1/19/05: 1,184.63
10/09/08: 909.82
Value of the Dollar
1/19/01: 1 Dollar = 1.06 Euros
1/19/05: 1 Dollar = .77 Euros
10/09/08: 1 Dollar = .73 Euros
Osama bin Laden has not been killed or captured, and the upcoming National Intelligence Estimate reportedly says that "Afghanistan is in a 'downward spiral", and casts "serious doubt on the ability of the Afghan government to stem the rise in the Taliban’s influence there".
Heckuva job, Bushie.
With the stimulative aid of unsustainable tax cuts, ultra-low interest rates, wild overspending, the baby boom demographic in its peak spending years, and a massive housing bubble... Bush leaves us with ... wait for it...
Panicked Markets in the crapper, a recession, and government jobs financed by China!
And after the nation was united after 9/11, eight years later Bush managed to leave us with a failed war in Afghanistan and a hideously expensive misadventure in Iraq.
Labels: Afghanistan, Bush, Dismal Science, Iraq morass, OBL
