Mona Charen's Reasons to Vote Republican [View All]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20061027/cm_uc_crmchx/mona_charen20061027

Let's pick this apart, okay?

I'll start with reason #1...

"1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001. Inflation has remained low. As Vice President Cheney summed it up at a recent meeting with journalists, "What more do you want?" The tax cuts proposed by President Bush and passed by a Republican Congress can take a bow."

They cherry-pick the dates when they start claiming job-growth success. Averaged over Bush's six years, the economy is much slower than under Clinton. Also, they celebrate that the stock market is now negligibly over its high from six years ago. What growth there is is overwhelming slanted toward the very wealthy, and not the poor or middle-class, and whatever economic gains they claim are on the backs of our children and grandchildren, who must pay down the $9 trillion debt they've run up, after inheriting a record-surplus national treasury -- those tax cuts for the most privileged can take a bow for that.

Any other takers out there? Most of her "points" should be easy and fun to knock out of the park....

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