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@Pitchblue that does seem to be a recurrent theme. I seems to be related to taking a good economy then enacting tax breaks, plunging the country into debt, and inflation, resulting in recession, then recovery, flowed again by a better economy. Clinton's administration with a cooperative congress went very far towards creating a balance budget and decreased debt, then Bush gave us tax reductions and reduced regulation, particularly with relaxation of rules on mortgage lending which led to bursting of the real estate bubble and "failures" in banking requiring massive bail outs of banks and auto manufacturers and then on and on.

@samueltyler2 Interesting how unemployment almost always increases under republicans, isn't it?

@ElwoodBlues but the want to buy $100k Trump watches!