Taken from Michael Hanscom and via buzzflash…
Politicians lie, but numbers don’t. How does the economic record of Bush, Jr. (and Sr.) stand up against Clinton’s on Unemployment, Job Creation, the Stock Market, and the Budget Surplus/Deficit. No one statistic paints a true picture, but taken together, life under a Bush is dark and not very prosperous.
I’d hate to see it after another four years of Bush…
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4 responses to “Politicians Lie… Numbers Don’t…”
Actually, graphs can be skewed and misleading. Take the industrial average as an example. It shows the market declining during Bush admin…actually the bear market was offically in march 2000 and had started the decline during clinton’s term. Job creation? Well, if you consider miminum wage jobs OR jobs created due to the effect of a hyped and inflated stock market such as tech jobs which we all know disappeared when the bubble burst.
So, Hanscom isn’t totally correct – data CAN and IS manipulated. I shudder at the thought of a bleeding liberal like Kerry in office. He’ll want to give health care benefits to everyone and tax the middle income to pay for it. Meanwhile, he’ll be sitting back with his wife, counting the number of ketchup bottles going down the assembly line in the Mexico factory where they pay workers less than a living wage.
Of course 80% of statistics are made up, or something like that…
I’ve created some textual tables that marry budget surplus/deficit numbers to Speakers of the House (rather than Presidents). The result? Newt Gingrich, American hero…
just wonderin if anyone has a chart with these figures plus the most recent ones? email me if you do, thanks.