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Bush's Economic Legacy

By The Daily Dish
Jan 12 2009, 6:29 AM ET

This WaPo piece is devastating. The collapse of job-creation, the still hard-to-fathom increase in public borrowing and spending, the failure to resolve any long-term fiscal problems (indeed a massive worsening of them), and the toleration of a bubble economy: put in historical context, the Bush-Cheney years seem even worse. Tax cuts did not help mend structural problems. That much needs to sink in with those of us who supported them.



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