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Originally posted by bilmore
Funny, it sure sounds that way.
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Not that you have to take me at my word, but fyi I don't come here to try to get right wing posters to admit that the every Bush admin policy has been a failure. If converting the wicked republicans was really a life goal of mine there are quite a few people that would be on the list ahead of you or club or the pubic hair on a coke can guy. People that I like in real life, for example.
I'm pretty sheltered from red-state viewpoints out here in the land of the radical lefties, so generally I post because I'm more interested in seeing how obviously intelligent (YMMV) people can arrive at viewpoints diametrically opposed to mine. In that vein, I was just curious as to whether there was some other basis for saying that the economy was no longer a problem for the admin.
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The economy is rebounding, contrary to what was predicted by many during the tax cut fight, and over the last year, but now the argument has changed, of necessity, from "it'll sink us", to "it's jobless", to "it's not as fast of a jump in jobs as it should be". If nothing else, I am in awe of the adaptivity shown in this regard.
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I'm not pointing at these numbers to say that you yourself had promised these jobs, so I'm not quite sure why you are implicitly attributing to me those previous arguments made by others. I'm just using the numbers the admin itself gave out as my measuring stick for our economic performance so far. If that's adaptivity, then I'm Carl the chameleon.
I bring this up in response to sgtclub's repeated postings of positive job creation information, because in my mind it is an incomplete picture to say "well we've got some new jobs" without adding "but the performance has fallen short than the proponents of the plan had projected." If you think that is an unfair burden to meet then of course you can disagree, but I was quite interested in hearing some other way to evaluate this. You apprently don't have any to suggest. OK.
Frankly, my big problem with the tax cuts is the massive growth in spending that has accompanied them, so even if the economy was going gangbusters I'd still be unhappy about the deficits created. As Bentsen said, give me a $100 billion credit card and I'll show some economic growth too. But then again, to have multiple justifications for my opposition makes me shamelessly adaptive in your eyes, so I should probably keep that to myself. ]
