>>>> We are the party of ideas, they are the party of moaning and crying.
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>>>What ideas?
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>>( tongue in cheek >What else, keeping the poor people down. Terrorising our own people and the rest of the world. (/ tongue in cheek >
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>>Well things like tax cuts (more jobs have been created in the US in the last year than all of Europe and Japan, or so I heard today). A simple little policy that says we are going to protect ourselves, etc.
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>http://www.epi.org/content.cfm?id=2254
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>Tax cuts and jobs
>Haven't the tax cuts passed since 2001 been vital to job creation?
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>No. Federal spending, not tax cuts, are responsible for the jobs that have been created.
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>If tax cuts have created jobs at all since 2001, it will have happened in the private sector. Assuming that job growth in 2006 matches the Bush Administration's projections, the economy will have added about 2.0 million jobs to the private sector from FY2001 through FY2006. But how many of these two million jobs actually can be attributed to tax cuts and how many to increased government spending—particularly increased defense spending—in this period?

Well, since we do have a war going on, you have to take what's out there. Anecdotally, I see much more evience of increased productivity by just watching all the tractor-trailers roaring up an down the road. As for the numbers, I'm sure we can both find lots of data to back our assertions, but here's one from Europe:

Special Report
Europe and the New Economy

http://www.europeanaffairs.org/archive/2000_summer.php4

The so-called new economy has firmly implanted itself in the United States, helping to generate the longest U.S. economic expansion ever recorded. The United States leads the world in many aspects of the internet-based economy and in technological innovation. Meanwhile, Europeans have been grappling with high unemployment, slow growth and out-of-date economic models. All that may now be changing, as Europe begins to embrace the new economy, and economic recovery gains ground.


The reality is that since Ronald Reagan, this is the stongest economy the US has ever had.